Paola Tine

After my studies in the Arts & Humanities (2013, BA Human Sciences with a major in Cultural Anthropology, University of Siena), I specialised in Visual Anthropology (2015, MA University of Siena) and in Documentary ethnographic video-making (2017, ETNOfilm, Padova). In the last 5 years, I have conducted intensive fieldwork in South Australia and Nepal, where I used traditional qualitative research methods and experimental visual methodologies. My doctoral studies focused on social change in modern Nepal, with a focus on the topic of domestic moralities and conflictuality. The methodological challenge of this study was to show some of the insights of sociological research through visual representation. For an updated art page see (Paola Tine-Smiech): https://www.paola-ts.com/ 

Publications

Academic

1. Tinè, P, 2023, ‘Seeing South Asia: Visuals Beyond Borders’ (Edited By Dev Nath Pathak, Biswajit Das, Ratan Kumar Roy), Visual Studies (forthcoming).
2. Tinè, P, 2022, ‘What Makes a Family? A Visual Approach to Ontological and Substantial Dimensions of the Domestic in Nepal’, HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 41(2):pp.
3. Tinè, P, 2022, ‘Two Kitchens and Other Modern Stories: Household Conflict and Fission as Dimensions of Development in Contemporary Nepal’, HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 41(2):pp.
4. Tinè, P, 2022, ‘The Question of Expression when Using Art as a Research Method in Anthropology: Notes for the Anthropologist-Artist’, In Carocci, M & Pratt, S (eds.), Ethnography as Art/Art as Ethnography: Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 23–38.
5. Tinè, P, 2021, ‘Seeking Heartfelt Help: The Emergence of the Friendship Guthi as a Middle-Class Practice in Contemporary Nepal’, Studies in Nepali History and Society 26(2): 313–344.
6. Tinè, P, Squillacciotti, M. and Giannelli, L. 2021, ‘Guna Yala: Voices to Remember. A Conversation on the Digital Archives of the Studies of Indigenous America”. Anthropological Airwaves – a podcast of the American Anthropologist (forthcoming). 
7. Tinè, P 2021, Maya's Story. Spirit Possession, Gender and the Making of the Self in a Painted Anthropological Account, Current Anthropology vol. 62, n.4.
8. Tinè, P 2021, ‘Doing Gender and Reshaping the Self: the Rehabilitation Narratives of TBI Survivors', Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences vol. 15, n. 1, pp.181-200.
9. Tinè, P 2021, ‘Painting the Self in a Study of Modernity: Using Art in Anthropological Research’, Re:think - a Journal of Creative Ethnography, vol. 3, n. 1, pp. 1-14.
10. Tinè, P 2020, ‘Parenting, Food Practices and Health Conceptions in Bhaktapur’. DADA Rivista di Antropologia Post-globale, n. 2, pp. 107-124. 
11. Tinè, P & Gray J 2020, 'Food Practices Among the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese in Adelaide', DADA Rivista di Antropologia Post-globale (Speciale Anthropologia del Cibo) n. 1, pp. 243-260. 
12. Tinè, P 2019, ‘I Colori del Sogno di Gatsby. Proposta di Analisi Semiotica', O Ideário Patrimonial, n. 13, pp. 41-48.  
13. Tinè, P 2018, ‘Lo sperimentalismo letterario nel romanzo moderno americano', O Ideário Patrimonial, n. 11, pp. 167-176.
14. Tine, P 2017, ‘Cultural interaction and integration in the context of immigration: the case study of the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese in Adelaide', Journal of Identity and Migration Studies-JIMS, vol.11, no.2, pp.23-33.
15. Tine, P 2017, ‘Art as a research method: on the expression of anthropological insights', O Ideário Patrimonial, n. 9, ISSN 2183-1394, pp.150-160. Tinè, P 2017, ‘Le radici storiche del conflitto in Ucraina e la costruzione della memoria', Tetide. Rivista di Studi Mediterranei, no. 4, pp. 100-112.

General public

1. Tinè, P 2020, ‘Using fMRI Techniques for Assessing Sub-types of Depression’, SAERA School of Advanced Education, Research and Accreditation. 
2. Tinè, P 2020,‘Measuring Brain Activity: Design, Acquisition, and Analysis of fMRI data’, SAERA School of Advanced Education, Research and Accreditation. 
3. Tinè, P 2020, ‘War and Peace of Neuroscience. Dehumanisation and Collateral Damage in Welfare’.
4. Tinè, P 2019, ‘Can I Paint It? Exploring the Art-tool Method in Anthropology’, Research Catalogue, An International Database for Artistic Research.
5. Tinè, P 2019, ‘What Is Beauty?’, in 'Nel Futuro' (web magazine). 
6. Tinè, P 2019, 'Dalla Russia, riflessioni sull'Esistenza', in 'Nel Futuro' (web magazine). 
7. Tinè, P 2017, L' "Arca russa": russofilismo e occidentalismo, in ‘Nel Futuro' (web magazine). 
8. Tinè, P 2017, La "contaminazione parola-immagine nell'arte di Gillo Dorfles, in ‘Nel Futuro' (web magazine). 
9. Tinè, P 2017, L'arte tra dicibile e indicibile, in ‘Nel Futuro' (web magazine).
10. Tinè, P 2017, L'immagine dell'anima nel misticismo profetico di Ildegarda di Bingen, in ‘Nel Futuro' (web magazine). 
11. Tinè, P 2017, Wittgenstein: teoria dell'immagine e ineffabilità, in ‘Nel Futuro' (web magazine). 
12. Tinè, P 2017, Pensiero e immaginazione: la "mancanza" all'origine del processo creativo, in ‘Nel Futuro' (web magazine).
13. Tinè, P 2016, Eurovision 2016: Uno show politico per l'Ucraina? In ‘Nel Futuro' (web magazine). 
14. Tinè, P 2016, Maggio 21, ‘Quella guerra dietro una canzone', la Repubblica (national newspaper), Lettere, commenti e idee, p.32. 

Grants and awards 

• 2022 ASAA Postgraduate Conference Award, Asian Studies Association of Australia
• 2021 Dor Bahadur Bista Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
• 2018 Jon Prosser Award for Outstanding Work by Beginning Scholars in Visual Methodologies
• 2018 Sight and Life Foundation (fieldwork in Nepal)
• 2018 IVSA Travel Stipend, International Visual Sociology Association (conference)
• 2018 Global Learning Travel Grant, The University of Adelaide (fieldwork in Nepal)
• 2018 Postgraduate Fieldwork Funding, The University of Adelaide, Department of Anthropology (fieldwork in Nepal)
• 2018 Research Abroad Scholarship, The University of Adelaide Graduate Centre (fieldwork in Nepal)
• 2017 Beacon of Enlightenment Scholarship, The University of Adelaide (PhD studies)  
• 2016 Postgraduate Internship, The University of Siena (fieldwork in South Australia)
• 2015 Erasmus Traineeship, The University of Siena (visiting fellowship at The University of Edinburgh)

Teaching

2022 Part-Time Teaching Lecturer, Introduction to Social Research (SOCI 2012), The University of Adelaide

2022 Part-Time Teaching Lecturer, Understanding Criminology (CRIM 1001), The University of Adelaide

2022 Part-Time Teaching Lecturer, Contemporary Issues in Criminology (CRIM 3001), The University of Adelaide

2022  Guest lecturer, Visual Anthropology (undergraduate) (ANTH 1104), the University of Adelaide

2021  Guest lecturer, Visual Anthropology (undergraduate) (ANTH 1104), the University of Adelaide

2020  Guest lecturer, Visual Anthropology (undergraduate) (ANTH 1104), the University of Adelaide

2016  Volunteer teacher of painting to children at the Bhutanese Ethnic School of Salisbury in Adelaide, South Australia

2014  Tutor, Cognitive Anthropology (undergraduate) (M-DEA/01), the University of Siena

2013  Tutor, Cultural Anthropology (undergraduate) (M-DEA/01), the University of Siena

Supervision

I  undertake dissertation supervision in the fields of anthropology, sociology, criminology and gender studies.