Benjamin Scribner, PhD, Academic Director, Rome

Ben received his doctoral degree in communications in 2013 at La Sapienza University of Rome. His thesis concerned the construction of national space in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He came to Rome with an MA in Sociology from the University of Oregon (1998) where his areas of focus were Political Economy, Social Inequality and the Sociology of Gender. He lectured at John Cabot University from 2014 to 2023, teaching courses in Intercultural Communication, Gender Studies and Sociology.  He previously taught at Southwestern College in Chula Vista and San Ysidro, CA, Emerson College in Boston, and worked as a teaching assistant in Psychology and Human Sexuality at Harvard University.  Ben enjoys cycling to work and photographing Rome with 35-millimeter film cameras.