Leonardo Piasere (b. 1955) was awarded a PhD in Social and Historical Anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and he is a part-time professor of Cultural Anthropology and Methodology of Anthropological Research at the University of Verona. He has carried out ethnographic research among the Rom communities and ethno-historical studies on the Italian Sinti and the Rom of Moldavia. He currently co-directs a European Commission project on the education and childhood of nomadic peoples. His books include: Sea Rom (Paris 1985); Romany Italy (3 vols., Rome 1996 to 2002), A ciganològusok szerelmei (edited by C. Prònai, Budapest 1997); The Cultures of Kinship and Perfect Exogamy (co-written with Piergiorgio Solinas, Roma 1998), and A World of Worlds (Naples 1999).