Members

​Aretai’s members and consultants are Italian and international scholars brought together by a common interest in the research over the virtues, both from a philosophical, psychological and educational perspective. The Center has also fruitful collaborations with several European and American research institutions.

Permanent members

University of Genova
Angelo Campodonico (Director)
Maria Silvia Vaccarezza  (Secretary)

Michel Croce
​Filippo Domaneschi
Alberto Giordano
Simona Langella
Valeria Ottonelli
Mirella Pasini
​Federico Zuolo

European University of Rome
Riccardo Brunetti
Anna Contardi
Claudia Navarini
Susy Zanardo

University of Pavia
Giampaolo Azzoni
Luca Fonnesu
Sergio Filippo Magni
​Tommaso Piazza
Luca Vanzago 

University of Rome 3
Mario De Caro
Sofia Bonicalzi

University of Cagliari
Elisabetta Cattanei 
Francesca Crasta
Gabriella Baptist 

University of Venezia
Paolo Pagani
Fabrizio Turoldo

University of Bari
Michele Mangini


Junior (non-faculty) members

Federico Bina (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Genoa)
Pierre-Thomas Eckert (PhD Student, European University of Rome)
Matilde Liberti (PhD Student, University of Genoa)
Manuel Marsico (PhD Student, University of Genoa)
Chiara Palazzolo (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tulsa, USA)
Martina Piantoni (PhD Student, European University of Rome)
Elena Ricci (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Bari)


External consultants

Luigi Alici (Macerata), Antonio Allegra (Perugia), Carla Bagnoli (Modena and Reggio Emilia-Oslo), Claudia Baracchi (Milan Bicocca), Amerigo Barzaghi (Madrid), Caterina Botti (La Sapienza University, Rome), Francesco Botturi (Catholic University, Milan), Giovanni Cogliandro (Rome – Tor Vergata), Antonio Da Re (Padua), Gabriele De Anna (Udine-Bamberg), Piergiorgio Donatelli (La Sapienza, Rome), Adriano Fabris (Pisa), Riccardo Fanciullacci (Bergamo), Arianna Fermani (Macerata), Alessandra Fussi (Pisa), Antonio Lizzadri (Catholic University, Milan), Mauro Magatti (Catholic University, Milan), Sante Maletta (Bergamo), Mario Micheletti (Siena), Roberto Mordacci (University Vita e Salute – San Raffaele), Carlo Natali (Venice), Donatella Pagliacci (Macerata), Massimo Reichlin (University Vita e Salute – San Raffaele), Giacomo Samek Lodovici (Catholic University, Milan), Nicoletta Scotti (Catholic University, Milan), Damiano Simoncelli (Independent Scholar), Carmelo Vigna (Venice).


International collaboration

Mark Alfano (Delft University of Technology), Julia Annas (University of Arizona), James Arthur (Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham), Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut), Rémi Brague (Pantheon-Sorbonne), Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia), Stephen Brock (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross), Paolo Carozza (Kellog Institute, University of Notre Dame), Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University), Howard Curzer (Texas Tech University), Marco D’Avenia (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross), Martin Echavarria (Facultad de Psicologia – Universidad Abat Oliva, Barcelona), Kevin Flannery (Pontifical Gregorian University), Jennifer Frey (Honors College, Tulsa, OK), Jennifer Herdt (Yale), Tobias Hoffman (Catholic University of America), Terence Irwin (University of Oxford), Pavlos Kontos (University of Patras), Dominique Lambert (Universitè de Namur), Raquel Lazaro Cantero (Universidad de Pamplona), Danielle Lories (Universite Catholique de Louvain), Jan James Kidd (University of Nottingham), Kristjan Kristjansson (Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham), Margarita Mauri Alvarez (Stageira, Universidad de Barcelona), Livio Melina (Centro Giovanni Paolo II studi per il matrimonio e la famiglia), Christian B. Miller (The Character Project, Wake Forest University), John O’Callaghan (Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame), Michael Pakaluk (Catholic University of America), Andrew Pinsent (Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion, University of Oxford), Roger Pouivet (Universitè de Lorraine), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edimburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of California-Irvine, University of Edinburgh), Christoph Rapp (Universität München), Laura Rizzerio (Universitè de Namur), Willibald Ruch (Faculty of Psychology, University of Zurich), Daniel Russell (University of Arizona), Nancy Snow (University of Kansas), Eleonore Stump (The Philosophy and Theology of Intellectual Humility, University of St. Louis), Artur Szutta (University of Gdansk), Natasza Szutta (University of Gdansk), Luca Tuninetti (Pontificia Università Urbaniana), Alejandro Vigo (Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona), Candace Vogler (Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life, University of Chicago), Linda T. Zagzebski (Emerita, University of Oklahoma), The Self, Motivation and Virtue Project (Marquette University).

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