Salvatore Poier is Teaching Professor in Law, Criminal Justice & Society at the College of General Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught for 7 years in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh; and five years at the College of the Atlantic. His doctoral research (University of Milan, Italy) was on piracy and the production of criminality. He has worked on topics such as theory of law and technology; urban hauntology; and solidarity in times of neoliberalism. His interests range from privately owned public spaces; to hacking; to platforms (real and virtual, on land and on sea); to ghosts as epistemological tools. He has a long standing interest in issues of social justice; architecture of cruelty; and solidarity, exclusion, and belonging.
Courses Taught at Pitt
- LCJS 0100 - Introduction to Law, Criminal Justice, and Society
- LCJS 1310 - Law and Deviance
- LCJS 1340 - Law and Social Change
- LCJS 1700 - Ethics in Criminal Justice
Education & Training
- PhD, Sociology and Philosophy of Law - University of Milan, Italy
- MS, Sociology of Law - Intl Institute for Sociology of Law of Oñati, Spain
- BA, Jurisprudence - University of Trento, Italy
Representative Publications
Fantasmi di Pittsburgh. Tracce, rovine e memoria della città (2022), Agenzia X, Milan - Italy