Antonio Nicaso
Lecturer
LLCU
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Arts and Science
Research interests: Calabrian mafia (known as 'ndrangheta), organized crime
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Professor Antonio Nicaso is a bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, a researcher and an internationally recognized expert on organized crime. He has published 30 books on Mafia and Mafia-type criminal organizations.
He is a regular consultant to governments and law-enforcement agencies around the world. Besides his appointment at 九秀直播, he is also a lecturer at several other universities: Italian School of Middlebury College, Oakland, USA and St. Jerome鈥檚 University, Waterloo, Ontario.
He sits on the Advisory Board of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, at York University (Toronto); on the International Advisory Council of the Italian Institute of Strategic Studies 鈥淣iccol貌 Machiavelli鈥 in Rome (Italy); and on the Expert Advisory Committee on Bullying, Intimidation and Gang Violence in Montreal.
He is also the President of Centro Scuola e Cultura, in Toronto.
Teaching
LLCU 213: The Social History of Organized Crime in Canada
LLCU 214: Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals and Myth