ANGELO PONTECORBOLI EDITORE

The ISI Florence & Umbra Institute Studies
in International Education

Editor in Chief
Daniel Tartaglia

Associate Editors
Stefano Baldassarri,
Nina Peci

Editorial Board
Brian Brubaker, Stacey Hansen, Adam Henry, Alison LaLond Wyant, Parshia Lee-Stecum, Ross Lewin, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Alessandro Polcri, Portia Prebys, Roberta Ricci
Lorna Stern, Kristi Wormhoudt, Matthew Yates

Design and layout
Nina Peci

Contributors
Pierluca Birindelli, Federico Damonte, Marco Bracci, Francesca Passeri, Franco Pisani

The students of MARYStudio:
Maria Fernanda Farieta, Alex Hall, Alicia Moreira, Ryan Muir, Ben Ripley

Contacts
E-mail: npeci@isiflorence.org – www.isiflorence.org | www.umbra.org
Angelo Pontecorboli Editore - Firenze
E-mail: info@pontecorboli.it - www.pontecorboli.com
ISBN 978-88-99695-080-2
© 2020
Printed in Italy, July 2020
Quaderno - Pubblicazione non periodica

Index

5  Beyond the Pit and the Pendulum. An introduction to the third issue of Beyond Stefano U. Baldassarri.

academics
10  Between stereotypes and experience: teaching study abroad students in Florence Federico Damonte
33  Study Abroad: the “discomfort zone” Francesca Passeri
The Cultural Experience Abroad: Spotlight, Shadow and Illusion
39  Pierluca Birindelli
63  Flip the classroom? Challenges in teaching sociology courses with American students Marco Bracci
Firenze and Florence: two faces of a diversified (not disorderly) whole
74  Franco Pisani

alumni/students
84  Life after MARYStudio Marywood University & University of Maryland School of Architecture