Carolina Dalla Chiesa
Assistant Professor of
Arts and Culture Studies Department
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Key interests:
Funding and financing models for the arts
Cultural work in transformation
Careers and the "amateurization" of culture
Organizational formats and the commons governance
Economic Sociology and Cultural Economics as a theoretical lens
Carolina Dalla Chiesa (1987) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts and Culture (ESHCC/EUR). Her research explores the transformations of cultural markets post-digitalization, funding and financing models for the cultural sectors, work under transformation and organizational models in and for the arts.
Carolina holds a Ph.D. in Arts and Culture Studies (Cultural Economics; 2021 - Erasmus University Rotterdam), an MSc. in Cultural Anthropology *cum laude* (2017 - UFRGS, Brazil), an MSc in Organization Studies (2014 - UFRGS, Brazil, Business School), BA in Business Administration (UFRGS, Brazil, 2011) and an unfinished BA in Social Sciences (2014-2016 - UFRGS, Brazil), which was interrupted by the time her PhD project started in The Netherlands.
Carolina also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Culture and Sociology at Leuphana University at ISKO (2021-2022, Germany) with research on the practices of digitally based creators.
She was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis Prize (2021) by the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities (EGSH), and two best research paper prizes (2013 and 2014 - EnANPAd, Brazil).
Furthermore, Carolina worked temporarily as a Lecturer at the Brazilian "Escola de Administracao" (UFRGS Business School).
Outside academia, Carolina worked as a Project Manager at the Creative Economy Observatory (OBEC), in partnership with the Ministry of Culture in Brazil (2014-2017), as well as an independent consultant in the non-profit sector for a brief period.
Her academic work has been published in a number of journals, including Poetics, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, City Culture and Society, and International Small Business Journal, as well as in edited volumes and book chapters.
New edited volume publication (Open Access, 2026)
I've been recently involved in creating an interdisciplinary network of scholars interested in discussing the avenues for supporting artistic careers, cultural organizations and creative production, under what we call "Funding and Financing of the Arts" (F.A.N.), We are interested in finding theoretical and empirical avenues to advance the debate around new and traditional forms of arts support as well as their future challenges in post-digitized modern economies. See button below (under construction).
Carolina, 15.05.2026
