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.

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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!