1. Sabina Magliocco is an author of non-fiction books and journal articles about folklore, religion, religious festivals, foodways, witchcraft and Neo-Paganism in Europe and the United States.
11 Facts About Sabina Magliocco
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Sabina Magliocco was born December 30,1959, in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Italian immigrants.
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Sabina Magliocco's mother joined him after they were married in 1958.
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Sabina Magliocco's family moved from Topeka to Cincinnati in 1966, where Magliocco graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1977.
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Sabina Magliocco's other teaching positions have included UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, and her current position at California State University, Northridge, where she taught from 1997 to 2017.
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Sabina Magliocco became the chair of the Department of Anthropology at Northridge in 2007.
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Sabina Magliocco did fieldwork in northwestern Sardinia during the 1980s, studying the effect of socio-economic transformation on the traditional festivals of a pastoral highland community.
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Sabina Magliocco is currently working on a project based on traditional healing practices in Italy.
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Sabina Magliocco has written several journal articles that have had significant impact on modern scholarship about witchcraft and the American revival of Italian-American Stregheria.
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From 2012 to 2014, Sabina Magliocco made appearances on 17 episodes of the History Channel series, Ancient Aliens, as a commentator speaking about folkloric concepts related to the theme of each episode.
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Sabina Magliocco appeared as a commentator on three episodes of the Scary Tales television series in 2011.