Michele Segretario is a Ph.D. Candidate in Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
His dissertation, Diasporic Soundscapes of Fascism: Radio, Music, and Religious Festivals in Italian America, is an investigation of Italian diasporic identity formations in the United States centuries through soundscape analysis, focusing on how sonic practices mediated the transnational circulation of Fascist ideologies and aesthetics within Italian American communities.
His research employs methods at the intersections of folkloristics, sound studies, ethnomusicology, and diaspora studies, which he has also applied to the study of historical soundscapes in colonial Latin America.
Involved in public scholarship, Michele founded La Stiva, an organization that promotes social engagement and the emergence of artistic production among young audiences in underserved areas in Sicily.
He is a co-founder of Berkeley’s Italian Migration Studies Working Group.
