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Researcher (rtda) at the Department of Legal Sciences (DSG) of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, teaches "Criminology of the borders" at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. She specializes in police and border control, her work falls within the field of border criminology and, more generally, in the critical criminology debate. She is also interested in the transnational dimension of legal phenomena and the field of female detention.
Education
She graduated in Culture and Human Rights from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bologna in 2011. In 2016, she obtained the international Ph.D. "R. Treves" in law and society from the Department of Legal Sciences "Cesare Beccaria" at the University of Milan.
Academic Career
In addition to being a junior researcher and lecturer at the University of Bologna, she is part of the management team of the inter-university Master's program in "Critical Criminology and Social Security" at the University of Padua and the University of Bologna. Within this program, she co-responsibles for the module on "Migrations and Racisms." Since 2012, she has been a subject expert in criminology.
Teaching Activities
Since 2018, she has been consistently teaching the course "Criminology of the Borders" for the Bachelor's Degree in International Relations (Curriculum Crime, Justice, and Security) at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna.
Since 2014, she has been teaching in the first-level inter-university Master's program in "Critical Criminology and Social Security" (University of Padua and University of Bologna). Her teaching areas include border control (administrative detention, police checks, border criminology), female detention, qualitative research methodologies, and racism. She has also delivered guest lectures at Italian and foreign universities.
Since 2011/2012, she has been assisting in teaching activities for the courses of Criminology, Crime Punishment, and Society, and the seminar on Theories and Techniques of Punishment and Social Control at the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Bologna. She supervises and co-supervises theses on these topics.
Scientific Activities
She is part of the research group of the inter-university project SERICS on Cybersecurity and Risks for Fundamental Rights, funded by the MUR under the PNRR funds within the NEXT-Generation EU plan. She collaborates on the research on Women in the Police, directed by Rossella Selmini, with research on female detainees in "Women on Women," directed by Susanna Vezzadini. She also participated in collecting interviews for the project on changes in surveillance in prisons in Emilia-Romagna, directed by Alvise Sbraccia. Together with Valeria Ferraris, Cristina Fernandez-Bessa, and Jose Angel Brandariz, she is editing a collection on Border Criminologies from a Southern perspective, and with Jukka Koonnen, Annika Lindberg, and Aino Korvensyrjä, a Special issue on Contested Deportation Regimes in Europe for the journal Citizenship Studies.
She has participated in national and international projects: Strategic partnership "ReMEIC" under the Erasmus plus KA2 program (2016-2018), where she was the local coordinator; the Observatory on the jurisprudence of the Justice of the Peace in immigration matters (2014-2017), where she was the local coordinator; co-founder of the research collective Translocal Law at King's College London (since 2015); research fellow in "Gender, Police, and Policing in Contemporary Italy" (2022-present); "Evolution and New Trends in Contemporary European Criminology: A Comparative Perspective on Theories, Research, and Knowledge Dissemination" (since 2020); and "Critical Perspectives on the Contemporary 'Criminal Question' in European and International Debates" (2018-2020).
She was a visiting student researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley from July to December 2014 and a visiting student at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain, from October to November 2015.
She serves as a referee for international and Italian journals in the field of Criminology and migrations.
Membership in Scientific and Editorial Committees
Since 2020, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of "Justice, Power, and Resistance."
Since July 2016, she has been part of the editorial team and the steering committee of "Studi sulla Questione Criminale."
Since 2016, she has been part of the editorial team of "Rivista Antigone."
From 2017 to 2020, she was Assistant Editor for the "European Journal of Criminology."
From 2016 to 2020, she was the founder and member of the online editorial board of the blog "Studi sulla Questione Criminale," and until 2019, she served as its coordinator.
Awards and Recognitions
2015 - Residence Grant for a study period at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain.
2015 - Full scholarship to participate in the Transnational Law Summer School at King's College London.
2015 - Scholarship/travel expenses covered to participate in the LSA Graduate Student Workshop held in Seattle on May 26-27, 2015.
2012 - René Cassin Award for a thesis on human rights and peace, Emilia-Romagna region.
Other Activities
Since 2021, she has been the president of the Association Antigone Emilia-Romagna.
Since 2014, she has been a member of the observatory of Antigone Emilia-Romagna.
Since 2020, she has been a member of the advisory board of "Landscapes of Border Control," a project of the blog "Border Criminologies" (University of Oxford) https://borderlandscapes.law.ox.ac.uk/ .
