Vanessa Grotti

I am Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Dpt. of Cultural Heritage. I have published on medicine & colonialism, multispecies & planetary anthropology, wetscapes, human-nonhuman relations, kinship & gender, personhood, animism, and migration. My research centres around kinship & reproduction, with a particular focus on relations and encounters of care, within medical institutions and beyond. I have studied these processes in Amazonia, by documenting first contacts and medical missions in Suriname. I have also studied relations of care in hospitals & NGO clinics in the Mediterranean & Overseas France. I am cPI of the ERC Synergy Grant PLANETARY EEL (2025-31) which studies human-eel relations worldwide. I was PI of the ERC Starting Grant EU BORDER CARE (2015-21), which examined migration & maternal health in EU borderlands. I was co-investigator on a project which studied migrant death & memorialisation in the Mediterranean & Adriatic (Wenner-Gren Foundation 2018-21). For the past 2 years I have been working with the Ravenna Dockers and on human-eel relations in the Adriatic and in Japan.

EU Border Care Project

Webcomic 'Expecting'

Graphic Novel 'Chez toi'