Dr. Susanna Rizzo

BA (Hons)-Classics (Federico II-Napoli), MA-Int. Rel (UoW), PhD-History (UoW), Cert Ed St (CoT, London)

Lecturer in History and Classics

Susanna Rizzo is currently a lecturer in History at Campion College Australia. She holds a BA(Hons) in Classics (specialisation: historical-religious-archaeological) from the University of Napoli ‘Federico II’ (Italy); a MA in International Relations (University of Wollongong) and a PHD in History (University of Wollongong). Her research interests lie in the areas of hermeneutics and the formation of epistemologies; in religious studies (in particular Early Christianity; the Judaism of the Second Temple; Church History; Missionary activity); World History; nationalism and identity. Her Honours thesis focused on the Essene Community of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Title: Il Giudaism Esseneo-Qumranico con Riferimenti alle Origini Cristiane). Her PhD thesis titled From Paradise Lost to Promised Land. Christianity and the Rise of West Papuan Nationalism is currently being turned into a book.

She has also published in the Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill 2006). Susanna is also interested in world literature and in particular poetry. She has published a collection of poems in Italian titled Falene in the series Poeti Contemporanei (Cultura Duemila Editrice-Ragusa) in 1993. Susanna speaks fluently Italian, French and Spanish. Before working at Campion College, she has worked as lecturer in history at the School of History and Politics and at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) of the University of Wollongong (NSW).

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