Dr. Vassilissa Carangio聽holds a Ph.D. in Business, within the discipline of Work and Organization, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. She has taught a broad range of business and liberal arts subjects at various institutions in Australia. She was a visiting research fellow at the University of Warwick in the UK and a Black Europe Summer School (BESS) alumna at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her doctoral research on the Australian job market was funded by the Swinburne Premier Research Award (Chancellor's Research Scholarship, CRS).
Dr. Carangio also holds an MA in Communications (combined BA/MA) from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where she graduated summa cum laude and completed a Master鈥檚 thesis in political economy. As a strong advocate of lifelong learning, she is currently enrolled in the MITx MicroMasters program in Supply Chain Management, developed and delivered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Her research on race and gender inequalities in business and organizational settings has been cited in a UN Women policy brief and in the largest strategic study to date on women鈥檚 representation and gender equality policies across managerial space organizations, launched and published by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) as part of its聽Space4Women聽programme. Beyond academia, she has extensive experience working in multicultural and multinational environments internationally.
Her teaching philosophy is informed by a Gramscian perspective, emphasizing a reciprocal relationship between teacher and student, fostering mutual acceptance and respect to create a humanized learning atmosphere. Dr. Carangio teaches Management courses at AUR.