Maria Rita Paratore

Academic Services Coordinator

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Office
Middlebury School in Italy
Email
mparatore@middlebury.edu

Maria Rita Paratore holds a BA and an MA in Philosophical Sciences at Università degli Studi di Firenze; she is now a Ph.D. Candidate in Social and Political Change at the Università degli Studi di Firenze and the Università degli Studi di Torino. She served as Academic Tutor and Guardian Angel for the School in Italy from 2022 to 2024, as Student Services Coordinator from 2024 to 2026, and now she works as the Academic Student Coordinator. She handles the organization of trips and visits, language tests, language exchanges, and co-curricular activities. Her research interests are political philosophy, democracy, new forms of political participation.