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For general inquiries, call our office at (631) 632-7444 or email us at ctritalianstudies@stonybrook.edu.

    Administrative Staff

  •  Director
    Director Lori Repetti Profile Picture
    Lori RepettiAbout
    Lori Repetti is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Linguistics. She studies the phonology and history of Romance languages, in particular Italian, Italian dialects and other endangered Romance varieties. Her research focuses on the interface of phonology with other areas of grammar (phonetics, morphology, syntax), microvariation, typology, and loanword phonology. She has conducted field research throughout Europe, and her research has been funded by both NEH and NSF.
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  • Center Administrator & Program Coordinator
    Assistant to the Director Christine Griffiths Profile Picture
    Christine E. GriffithsAbout
    Christine Griffiths holds a BA in Art History and Anthropology from Stony Brook University and MA and MPhil in Art and Cultural History from Bard Graduate Center in New York. Her professional background is varied, with experience in academic programs, events management, fundraising, and higher-education teaching. Ms. Griffiths has a strong research portfolio in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history and material culture and has held fellowships at the New York Botanical Garden and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, DC for her doctoral research on perfume and garden history. At the Center, she organizes events and conferences, oversees the scholarship and fellowship programs, and develops and coordinates academic and community programs, including the non-credit Italian language classes for adults and children.
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    Graduate Fellows

    Emily Bayer

    Josephine Fusco Fellow (Fall 2025), MAT Italian Candidate

    Ludovica Sophia Costanzo

    Ludovica Sophia Costanzo

    Josephine Fusco Fellow (Fall 2025), MAT Italian Candidate

    Student Assistants

    Luca Capuano

    Luca Capuano

    Web and

    Communications

    Assistant

    Angel Santos

    Angel Santos

    Programs Assistant

    Aidan Donovan

    Programs Assistant

    Volunteers

    Josephine Fusco

    Volunteer

    josephine.fusco@stonybrook.edu

    Thomas Massaro

    Volunteer

    thomas.massaro@stonybrook.edu

Associated Faculty