Current position
Teaching Assistant in Contemporary History at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna.
Education
2026 - PhD in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics (XXXVIII cycle), at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna. Research project in Political Philosophy with the provisional title: The (dis)articulation of race and class in Britain, 1970s-1980s. Supervisor: Sandro Mezzadra, co-supervisor: Iain Chambers.
2022 - Master's Degree in History and Oriental Sciences (University of Bologna), curriculum Global Cultures. Thesis in Critical Theories of Contemporary Capitalism entitled Understanding Changing Conjunctures: On Stuart Hall's Method, supervisor Prof. Sandro Mezzadra, co-supervisor Prof. Iain Chambers.
2019 - Bachelor's Degree in Political, Social and International Sciences (University of Bologna), curriculum International Relations. Thesis in History of Political Thought entitled Una cosa da nulla: Antonio Gramsci e la formazione dell'uomo, supervisor prof. Maurizio Ricciardi.
Scholarships and research grants
2024 - Scholarship award at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples
2024 - 'Marco Polo' scholarship for a visiting period at King's College London (supervisor: Dr. John Narayan)
2021 - Scholarship for dissertation research abroad. Department of History and Cultures (University of Bologna) for a research period at the Cadbury Research Library (University of Birmingham, UK).
2019 - Scholarship award in favour of deserving students enrolled in the academic year 2018/2019 at the University of Bologna.
Seminars and Conferences
25-26 March 2026 - Global Studies Conference (University of Urbino Carlo Bo). Paper: "Articulating Exploitation in Racial Capitalism".
31 October-2 November 2024 - International Conference "Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories" (University of Birmingham). Paper: "The politics of articulation. Stuart Hall's engagement with black politics in the 1970s".
13 June 2024 - Seminar "I colori della razza. Prospettive storiche su razza e razzismo" (Università di Bologna). With Viola Pacini (Università di Bologna) and Aurélia Michel (Université Paris Cité)
15 May 2024 - Seminar "Semantics of Growth: Progress, Nature, Development" (Università di Bologna). With Andrea Rizzi (Università di Bologna), Jacopo Bonasera (Fondazione Burzio, Torino) and Matthias Schmelzer (Università di Jena)
26-30 June 2023 - Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra). Paper entitled "Disputing race and racism. Notes on a debate", discussants: Prof. Gargi Batthacharyya (University of East London) e Prof. Lester Spence (John’s Hopkins University).
10-12 May 2021 - Student Conference 2021 'Soggetti in conflitto. Tra scontro e riconoscimento' (University of Pavia). Paper entitled "Musiche da neri. Il soggetto-jazz fra industria culturale e blackness".
