Nuccio Mazzullo awarded as Officer of The Order of the Star of Italy

23.2.2016 12:06
The President of Italy has awarded Nuccio Mazzullo, the researcher of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the recognition of knighthood ”Officer of The Order of the Star of Italy”. The knighthood awarded in recognition of service to the Italian Republic and its Arctic affairs in foreign countries and in Finland.

Photo: Nuccio Mazzullo is having his recognition of the knighthood from the Ambassador Giorgio Visetti.  The photo is published with the kind permission of the Italian Embassy.

There are five orders of knighthood awarded in recognition of service to the Italian Republic: Knight, Officer, Commander, Grand Officer, Knight Grand Cross and Knight Grand Cross with cordon. The rank is normally given starting from Knight, only exceptionally, as in this case, it is started from the higher rank of Officer.

Nuccio Mazzullo, born in Ispica (Sicily), is an anthropologist and has specialized in his work in Finnish Lapland, with particular interest in Sámi reindeer herders. Topical interests include reindeer herding, hunters and gatherers, human-environment relationships, environmental politics and indigenous rights, landscape and perception, orientation, movement and place naming, perception of time, learning and skills, handicraft, narratives and identity, and anthropology of circumpolar peoples. He has been working at the Arctic Centre since 2007 and got his first touch to Finland in 1990 when he came to Lapland to make fieldwork.

The Arctic Centre staff will congratulate Nuccio!