Nardella, Carlo

Carlo Nardella is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy. His research is primarily concerned with issues of social construction of reality and social change, with particular attention to cultural factors and communication. Specifically, he has focused on the interrelationships between religion and marketing, the use of religious symbols in commercial advertising, the relationship between Catholicism and the media, the adaptation of religious buildings to new uses, popular religiosity, and the role of religion in the legitimization of the European Union. He is author of 2 books and numerous articles. Recipient of the British Sociological Association’s Peter B. Clarke Memorial Prize and nominee for the Harvard Society of Fellows, Nardella was visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information.