Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pavia. I earned my Ph.D. in 2013 at the University of Milano-Bicocca in co-partnership with the University of Bayreuth. I have conducted ethnographic research in Togo (2006-2011), Madagascar (2013- present) and Italy (2018-present). My research interests include aging and migration, African slavery and post-slavery, stigma and forms of labour exploitation, land conflicts and banditry.

I am the author of La Terra Contesa. Conflitti fondiari e lavoro agricolo in Togo (Edizioni Mimesis, 2017) and Anzianità e Invecchiamento in Africa e nella Diaspora. Prospettive Antropologiche (Carocci Editore, 2023). I am member of the board of the Ph.D. in History at the University of Pavia, where I also teach Political Anthropology (MA in African and Asian Studies) and Social and Cultural Anthropology (BA in Political and International Sciences).

Projects

Pavia

This Research Unit will explore the demand of textiles in the Horn of Africa, a region with an important local production. In the nineteenth century Indian, European and American producers sought to cater to these customers.

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