People

Marcella Zulla

PhD Student

Photo of Marcella Zulla

Contact

Email: mzulla@usf.edu

Education

  • M.A., Criminology and Violence Studies, Universität Regensburg, Germany
  • B.A., Social and Cultural Anthropology + Political Science, Eberhard-Karls-Universität TĂĽbingen, Germany

Advisor

Dr. Antoinette T. Jackson

Teaching

ANT2410 Cultural Anthropology, ANT4401 Exploring Cross-Cultural Diversity, GER1120 Beginning German, and GER1121 Beginning German.

Extracurricular Activities

Contributing Editor for NAPA Notes, National Association for Practicing Anthropologists Newsletter

Research interests

Identity and Representation, Knowledge Production, Historical Anthropology, Ethnic and Religious Minorities, Nationalism, Construction of Race, Whiteness Studies, Critical Race Studies, Critical Discourse Studies

  • Geographic Foci: Caucasus, Turkey, Levant, Southern Italy, United States
  • PhD Research: Race and Italian American History in the Deep South (1860s-1960s)
  • M.A. Research: Trauma and Genocidal Violence in the Narratives of Armenian Families 
  • B.A. Research: Gender and Sexual Norms in contemporary Armenia

PUBLICATIONS

  • Zulla, Marcella. 2025. Review of The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage, edited by Loolwa Khazzoom. Oakland: University of California Press. Ethnic Studies Review 48 (1), forthcoming.
  • Zulla, Marcella. 2017. "Jeder Kann Malen, Aber Nicht Jeder Kann Sehen." Zenith, June 8. | zenith.me English: "Everybody Can Paint, But Not Everybody Can See" - Iranian Artist Behrang Gholamdoust on the Freedom of Mind and Body.
  • Zulla, Marcella. 2013. "Armenien, TĂĽrkei, und der Fall Hrant Dink."  Zenith, June 24. English: "Armenia, Turkey, and the Case of Hrant Drink."