Sandra Busatta

In 1972 she got a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Urbino, was research assistant at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Psychologies at the University of Padova (where she took her doctorate in 1999), as an americanist anthropologist, specialised in the cultures of Northern American natives.
She is among the founders of Soconas Incomindios and of its review "Tepee" in 1980, and in 1994 she founded HAKO magazine. She is a member of the Italian Association of Ethno-Anthropological Sciences (AISEA), and also took a doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Galles in Lampeter.
She is a reviewer of publications for the Smithsonian Institute, she writes for "Thule. Italian journal of American studies", for Antrocom, On-line Journal of Anthropology, and is the author of several scientific publications. She holds lectures and seminars both in Italy and abroad.
At present she’s working at a project about feminine genital mutilations at the University of Padova, where she lives, and cooperates to the formative activities of the Athenaeum.