PhD in CULTURAL HERITAGE, EDUCATION AND TERRITORY

email: pierluigi.magistri@uniroma2.it
phone: +39.06.7259.5150
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Associate Professor of Geography M-GGR/01 at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education, and Society. He is currently the coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in “Tourism Sciences” (SciTUR). He is an editor on the Editorial Board of the journal “documenti geografici” and a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal “Geotema” and the series “Turismo e territori dell’ospitalità” published by Armando Editore. He is a member of the research center Pa.Ter. (Paesaggio e Territorio) established by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and the “Consulta nazionale dell’Ufficio per la Pastorale del tempo libero, turismo e sport” of the Italian Episcopal Conference. His areas of expertise include: socio-territorial organization related to the tourism phenomenon, with particular attention to tourism in sacred places and the new expressions of religious tourism in terms of conviviality; processes of new territorialization resulting from immigration dynamics, with specific consideration of the Italian geographic space and cultural-religious matrix components; processes of territorialization resulting from emigration dynamics, with specific consideration of the Italian geographic space, particularly inland and mountain areas; territorial organization of the Abruzzo geographic space, investigated both from a current perspective and a geo-historical perspective; the relationship between geography and Christianity in social-territorial production and organization.
He teaches geography for the Bachelor’s Degrees in “Tourism Sciences,” “Education and Training Sciences”, “Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners for Hospitality and Internationalization – LICUS” (Master’s Degree) at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and “Geography of Cultural Landscape” at the University of L’Aquila.