She is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna (UNIBO). She holds a joint PhD in Religious Studies, Social Sciences, and History from the University of Bologna and in Anthropologie sociale, ethnographie et ethnologie from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris.
She teaches Anthropology of Material Culture, Applied Anthropology, Anthropology of Learning, Anthropology of collaborative and participatory processes and Education and Anthropology of African Arts at the University of Bologna, as well as Anthropology of Design at various Italian design schools. Her current research focuses on learning processes, exploring the implications of a situated learning epistemology. On all these topics, she has published numerous volumes and articles in leading international journals, including RES (Harvard University Press), African Arts (UCLA), NKA Journal (Cornell University), Cahiers d'Études Africaines (EHESS Paris) and Cambridge University Press.
He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Cambridge, and was awarded his PhD at the University of Münster in 2000. Since 2005 he is Researcher in Near Eastern Archaeology at LMU Münich.
His research interests lie in the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.
Currently Adjunct Professor and Research Manager at the Department of History and Cultures (UNIBO), she has an interdisciplinary background in social sciences with a focus on anthropology, education, development, and civil society. Her researches are based on fieldworks across Asia and on qualitative methodologies.
He is currently Tenured Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the Department of History and Cultures, UNIBO after obtaining a PhD in Human Geography at the Universities of Fribourg and Verona and holding research fellowships in France, Germany and the UK over the last years.
His research interests span from Geography of the Environment to Political Ecology: his publications have focused on water governance transformations in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan), coastal development policies in South-East Asia (Vietnam) and, more recently, on heritage-scapes transformations and mountain socio-ecological change in Italy, and in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.