Contract professor since 2021 at the Department of Education Sciences and research fellow since 2024 at the Department of Sociology and Economic Law at the University of Bologna, she conducts her research in the fields of migration studies, the memory of political violence, artivism, and research methodologies (such as puppetry). Her research interests particularly focus on the policies and management forms of migration flows, the claims of people on the move and the families and victims of armed conflicts, and ethnographic and experimental research methodologies. She has conducted research in Ghana, Morocco, Spain, Italy, and Peru.
Education
Graduated in Anthropological Sciences in 2013 from the University of Bologna, she obtained a master's degree in Anthropology and Contemporary World History from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2015. In 2022, she enhanced her education with a specialization course on NGOs and human rights protection at the University of Roma Tre and, more generally, with courses on human rights, cooperation, communication, and project design.
Academic work
She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Sociology and Economic Law at the University of Bologna and an associate researcher at IDEHPUCP - Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Laboratorio di Etno-Antropologia research group at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and ANPIA. Since 2020, she has been a member of the interdisciplinary research group CAMINAR - Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas.
From 2020 to 2022, she was coordinator of the research area on migration and human trafficking of IDEHPUCP, where she carried out and coordinated as research:
◦ Venezuelan teenagers unaccompanied: migration trajectories to the challenge of gender violence and access to social services in Peru| 2021-2023, funding source: PUCP
◦ Xenophobia and Integration of Venezuelan Migrants on Twitter and in the media in Peru during 2021 | 2021-2022
◦ Capacity-building of the education sector to promote schools free of xenophobia | 2021-2022, funding source: OIM
◦ Evaluation of the Curriculum for Training and Improvement of Private Security in Peru: Towards the Incorporation of International Human Rights Standards | 2020-2022, funding source: DCAF
◦ Study on violence against indigenous environmental defenders in Peru | 2021-2022
◦ Human trafficking and migration in times of pandemic by COVID-19 in Peru | 2021, funding source: UNODC
◦ Discrimination against the Venezuelan population: the role of the media and political authorities in the construction of stereotypes and beliefs | 2021, funding source: GIZ
◦ Information collection, analysis, and systematization service for a publication on the standards of the Inter-American System of Human Rights (ISHR), in the area of trafficking in persons in migration contexts | 2020-2021, funding source: UNODC
◦ Strengthening the capacity of shelters for the psychosocial accompaniment of Venezuelan migrants in Peru | 2020-2021, funding source: FCIL
◦ Indigenous governance and political participation in Peru. Search for missing persons: new narratives and capacities for political advocacy for peace | 2019-2020, funding source: Ford Foundation
For academic publications and participation in conferences: ORCID 0000-0002-6797-8949
Teaching
Since 2021, she has continuously taught in the Specialization Course for Support with a Didactics Laboratory in the Anthropological Area, aimed at primary school teachers, at the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna. The laboratory investigates how to decostruct stereotypes through the use of kamishibai.
Since 2024, she has been teaching Design: introduction and participatory processes within the Advanced Course Human Rights: theories, practices, non-governmental organizations, and forms of protection at the Department of Law of the University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with CILD.
She organizes and coordinates seminars and panels on her disciplines.
Other activities
She collaborates with CILD - Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedom, coordinating and writing European projects such as Horizon and CERV.
In Peru, she coordinated the human mobility group of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Peru, the area of institutional relations and design of the Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Peru (IDEHPUCP) and was a consultant for the Lugar de la Memoria y de la Tolerancia Social of the Ministry of Culture of Peru (2019-2022).
In Italy, she co-founded startups and associations, and she worked at the Fondazione Scuola di Pace di Monte Sole 2014-2019).
