Fulvia Caruso graduated with honours in Literature from Sapienza University of Rome, where she also obtained a PhD in Ethnoanthropological Sciences. Since 2015, she has been Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia (Cremona), where she was a researcher since 2008. She teaches Ethnomusicology of Musical Heritage II at the School of Specialisation in Musical Heritage (Universities of Bologna, Pavia and Sapienza). In the 2016-17 a. y., she was an Erasmus+ visiting professor at the University of Jordan, and in the 2017-18 a. y., she was a visiting professor at Tufts University. She is currently serving as the delegate of the rector for Knowledge Transfer, chair of the ADUIM teaching committee, and member of the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology Cord. Her research interests include musical processes in the contemporary world, with a particular focus on issues related to ritual, vocality, heritage processes, the migratory context in central and northern Italy, and the teaching of world music in schools. She has published numerous contributions in journals and volumes. The most recent publications are Dal locale al globale. La prospettiva etnomusicologica a scuola (From Local to Global. An Ethnomusicological Perspective in Education), Roma: Tab edizioni, 2020 (with Corda, Kevorkian, Serafini, Tartaglia, Tiramani), and Le parole dei liutai (The Words of Luthiers), Cremona: CremonaBooks, 2022.