Current position:
November 2020-: PhD candidate in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics at the University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures. Research project in Contemporary history, working title: Print Cultures as Political Networks: The Circulation of Antiracist and Anticolonial Periodicals in Africa and the African Diaspora, 1910s-1930s, supervised by Prof. Paolo Capuzzo.
Education:
June 2023-July 2023: William P. Heidrich Research Fellow at the University of Michigan.
January 2023-February 2023: Visiting PhD at the Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Dept. of English, supervised by Prof. Nourdin Bejjit.
November 2022-December 2022: Visiting International Affiliate at the University of Cape Town, Dept. of English.
October 2021-October 2022: PhD Research Associate at the Queen Mary University of London, School of History, supervised by Dr. Leslie James.
September 2018-October 2020: MPhil in History and Oriental Studies (curriculum Global Cultures), University of Bologna.
- Dissertation: The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign (1935-36), racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism across South Asia and the African diaspora, World History, supervised by Prof. Paolo Capuzzo and Prof. Saverio Marchignoli. Final grade: 110/110 with honors.
- Erasmus+ mobility, King’s College London (6 months).
September 2014-March 2018: BA in Philosophy, University of Bologna.
- Dissertation: Autobiografia e intersezionalità. Angela Yvonne Davis teorica critica, History of Political Doctrines, supervised by Prof. Raffaele Laudani. Final grade: 110/110 with honors.
- Erasmus+ mobility, Université de Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail (6 months).
Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
‘The transnational policing of anticolonialists: imperial intelligence, revolutionary networks, and their archives, 1905-45’, Contemporanea 26, no. 1 (2023): 143-57 [review article].
'The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign, racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism in South Asia (1935-1936)', Journal of Global History 18 (2023): 47-67 [research article].
'Three pan-Africanist readings of the "Moorish" participation in the Spanish Civil War. Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and George Padmore', Contemporanea 23, no. 2 (2020): 201-24 [research article].
Conference papers:
'The other shore of the Spanish Civil War: African anticolonialists and the Republican cause (1936-39)' (25-27 October 2023). International conference A World without Empire? Encounters and connections between African, European, and Soviet Communists, 1920s to 1970s, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
'The cross-cultural transformation of the European radical tradition in Southern Africa (1921-45)' (22 September 2023). Workshop Marxism in Motion: The intellectual history of Marxism in and about the Global South during the early twentieth century, University College London.
'Récupération et circulation des images' (21 March 2023). Seminar Les pratiques d’influence aux XXe et XXIe siècles, EHESS École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
'The Afrodiasporic debate on the colonial and racial dimension of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)' (7 February 2023). Seminar Ateliers Ouverts de la Recherche, Center for Global Studies de l'Université Internationale de Rabat.
'"Echoed and re-echoed": Radical print cultures in dialogue across the Black Atlantic (1918-33)' (22-24 June 2022). Workshop Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, PhD in Global History and Governance.
'Reti di informazione e propaganda anticoloniale fra continente e diaspora africana, 1917-45' (6-8 June 2022). XVI Workshop Nazionale Dottorandi Sissco, University of Catania, Department of Political and Social Sciences.
Co-organizer of the Seminar Black Marxism 40 years on: Current and interdisciplinary engagement with Cedric J. Robinson's “racial capitalism”’ (21 April 2022). University of Bologna, PhD in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics.
'“To translate the ideas of the social revolution into the Bantu idiom”: the Communist Party of South Africa and the problem of multilingual propaganda (1915-38)' (9-10 March 2022). Workshop Building connections between Soviet, European, and African communists, 1920s to 1960s, University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures.
'Black anticolonial internationalism and the rise of global fascism: the African and Afrodiasporic participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)' (27 October 2021). SOAS History Seminar, SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), Department of History.
'The diasporic history of Umsebenzi, the first newspaper of the Communist Party of South Africa' (6 October 2021). Giornata di Studi 2021, University of Bologna, PhD in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics.
'Pan-Africanism or Communism? The global revolution in the pages of the Negro World (1918-33)' (4 March 2021). Workshop Un mondo senza imperi. Reti, incontri e immaginario dei comunisti nell’epoca della decolonizzazione in Africa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Teaching experience:
AY 2022-23: Joint supervision of MPhil thesis in African History, University of Bologna, Dept. of History and Cultures.
April 2023-June 2023: Teaching Assistant in the program ‘Duke in Bologna’, Duke University, Dept. of Romance Studies.
Grants and awards:
AY 2023-24: ‘Giulio Einaudi’ Research Fellowship – Luigi Einaudi Foundation, Turin
2023: Annual Article Prize – Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (Sissco)
2023: William P. Heidrich Research Fellowship – University of Michigan
2021: Marco Polo mobility scholarship – University of Bologna
2019: Erasmus+ mobility scholarship
2017: Erasmus+ mobility scholarship
2017: Excellence scholarship – University of Bologna
Languages:
Italian: Native Language
English: C1 (IELTS Overall Band Score: 8)
French: C1 (DALF Alliance Française)
Modern Standard Arabic: Level 3 (Qalam wa Lawh Center, Rabat)
Portuguese, Spanish: Receptive Skills
