About us

I am researcher at the University of Bologna (Ph.D. in 'Religious Studies: Social Sciences and Historical Studies of Religions' and in 'Social Anthropologie, ethnographie et ethnologie' at the University of Bologna in agreement with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris). I currently teach Education Anthropology, Applied Anthropology and Ethnographic Research Techniques. I taught and I keep being engaged in the field of Anthropology and Design (Libera Università di Bolzano, SID - Padova, IED, NABA).

I have conducted research in various companies and educational contexts in the field of learning processes and on which I have written monographs and articles. I have also done research in the field of anthropology of art and design and published in international journals such as Res, African Arts, Nka Journal, Cahier d'Études Africaines. I held seminars at museums such as MOMA in New York, Musée du quai Branly in Paris, and in various international universities. I have many years of experience in the field of consulting and training, focusing on a systemic approach to complexity. I am interested in creative processes, and the way people learn and experience changes in their professional lives or in formal education contexts such as school and university.

Over the last years, I have been experimenting with creative practices on how to live the experience of 'being in presence', of learning to dialogue instead of reacting, to listening to what emerges at the moment. Based on these studies and activities I have developed a learning paradigm that may apply to working and educational contexts and that I named "Learning by relations". I described such paradigm in my last monographs Etnografie in Bottiglia 2019 and Apprendimento a KMZero (2020 second edition).

I received my Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology with a dissertation entitled Diversamente esperti: dalle reti di solidarietà di Re.So. al quinto campo dell'antropologia in November 2020. My research interests fall within the anthropology of education and the anthropology of learning, focusing on school contexts and communities of practice.

I believe in the applied value of the anthropological discipline and for this reason, during my university career, I've taken part in participatory action research projects as Sguardi oltre (2019), Far volare i banchi (2020) and Fiera Educazione (2021). I'm currently working with the Iris research centre in Prato as a PhD student to find empowerment strategies for a community of practice involved in the world of volunteering.

At REAL Lab I am in charge of general content management, updating the site and initiatives related to the educational field.

Italian anthropology student. I'm interested in understanding the complexity of human behaviour and human processes by investigating the interconnections human beings make with the environment they live in. I love to evidence that everyone’s experience is legitimate and coherent as it happens, because what one lives is what one conserves, consciously or unconsciously. I want to contribute generating conscious conservation processes that result in meaningful existences.

After eight years at the University of Milan, since 2013 I have been working at the University of Bologna, where I first was adjunct professor, then a researcher and then an associate professor. Currently, I teach Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Anthropology and Ethnographic Research Methodologies.

Since 2000 I have conducted research in the territories of the Sri Lankan Tamil guerrillas and among the Tamils of the Diaspora. I have been involved in the anthropology of funeral rites for a long time and since I was a student I have been interested in the anthropology of dance, which has become one of my central research themes, also thanks to the collaboration with artists in the field.

It was through dance itself that I approached the theme of disability and I realized it was important, also within the university context, to develop projects to raise awareness of such theme.

I work in the field of medical anthropology and the body with an applied and public perspective. My scientific interests are mainly in the field of birth anthropology and the politics of care. The intersection between body dynamics, personal experience and social relations was the starting point for my involvement in the REAL lab project, especially in the field of disability experience writing.

I have carried out field research in Ecuador and Italy, focusing on practices of motherhood support and care. At the University of Bologna, I was teaching tutor in the courses of Ethnographic research methodologies and Cultural anthropology and I teach the course Introduction to anthropology for the curriculum in Global cultures of the Master in History and oriental studies at the University of Bologna. Today, I also collaborate with the Global Health Centre of the Meyer University Hospital in Florence where I teach medical anthropology and offer on-the-job training activities within the project I.C.A.R.E. - Integration and Community Care for Asylum and Refugees in Emergency.

I obtained my Master's Degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Bologna in March 2018 with a thesis in Historical Anthropology entitled Identity, Ethnicity and Power in Hispanic-Mapuche Interethnic Relations in the 18th Century: Armed Conflicts, Evangelization, Parliamentary Affairs and Trade.

Since 2017 I have been tutor of the project of Collection of Texts and Interviews on Disability and I am co-editor of the book Io a loro ho cercato di spiegare che è una storia complicata la nostra. Voci, esperienze, testimonianze sulla disabilità alla Università di Bologna (Bologna, BUP, 2018).

In this capacity I took part in the conference "Medical Anthropology & Disability", held in Perugia on 8 - 9 November 2019, where I presented an paper entitled Voices from disability between awareness and theoretical reflection.

I have been working in multicultural contexts since the Nineties. I currently deal with the conception, coordination and documentation of intercultural projects within the educational and equal opportunities Services of the Municipality of Casalecchio di Reno (BO). My education includes a master's degree in cultural anthropology and ethnology from the University of Bologna.

My main interest lays in transforming into common heritage a territory's set of relationships between otherness, plural belongings, narratives, knowledge and meeting spaces.

I graduated in 2008 in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Bologna with the dissertation Indian Gaming: Strategies and Compromises in the Indian Reservations of the USA.
In 2011 I moved to San Francisco to attend the Master of Arts (MA) in Visual Anthropology (Creation, shooting and editing of documentaries).
In 2012 I went to Tanzania to conduct research on Maasai women.
In October 2012 I was born for the second time in the Imola hills.
I currently live at the Residential Center Selleri Battaglia for people with disabilities.