Vanessa Grotti

I am Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus). I am a social and medical anthropologist, PI of an ERC-funded project entitled EU Border Care (2015-21) which examines migration, maternity care and reproductive health in European borderlands. Together with M. Brightman (Unibo) and N. Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) I am also co-investigator on a collaborative project which studies migrant death, mourning and memorialisation in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, ‘Ecologies of Remembrance: The Moral Afterlives of Migrant Human Remains Along the Central Mediterranean Route’ (2018-21). I have been conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northeastern Amazonia since 2002 and in the Mediterranean since 2015. I have published on medicine and colonialism, kinship and gender, personhood, animism and material culture, migration and borderlands, and history and memorialisation.

EU Border Care Project

Webcomic 'Expecting'