Italian Studies

Elena Daniele came to Brown with a specialization in Italian Teaching Methodologies from the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, and a Master Degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology from University of Rome "La Sapienza." At Brown, she pursued research in early modern ethnographic travel writing and was awarded the J. M. Stuart fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, where she focused on the Italian contribution to the early exploration of the Americas. Her dissertation, written under the direction of Ron Martinez, was entitled "First Representations of New World Cannibals (1493-1497)."