Tenure track researcher at the University of Bologna since 2024, she conducts her research in the field of Sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS), with a particular interest in the relationship between digital infrastructures, organizational processes, governance of/by infrastructures, and long-term transformations, adopting ethnographic/qualitative approaches.
Her research interests include an in-depth examination of the role of technology in organizational dynamics in relation to informational infrastructures, national and transnational organizations, and European policies on supranational integration, focusing on security, migration flows, digital infrastructures, the environment, and energy policies. She has also analyzed the forms of domination and repression in authoritarian political regimes (focus on North Africa), the impact of reforms sponsored by international organizations under the label of New Public Management, and strategies for reshaping political control at both national and local levels, on a micro scale. In the past, her work has also included an exploration of popular forms of religious expression, collective memory, and its role in the debate in Italy regarding the period of colonial occupation in Libya.
RESEARCH IMPACT METRICS (as of 18th April 2025)
Google Scholar Citations: 250. H Index 10
Scopus (57193254508) Citations: 74. H Index: 6
Web of Science Citations: 52. H Index 5
Education
BA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, in 2011 at the University of Turin with a thesis focused on the analysis of the memory of Italians who lived in Libya during the colonial occupation and its impact on the mobilization of mythical-historical narratives of repatriation. She obtained a PhD in Political Science from the same university in 2016, with a thesis on the governance of waste management in Tunisia. She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Musicology and Cultural Heritage at the University of Milan, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, in 2006, with a thesis on melodrama in the writings of Antonio Gramsci.
Academic career
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024: Postdoc researcher, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, SHUT-MED Prin project
Sept 2020 - Dec 2023: Postdoc researcher, University of Bologna, ERC “Processing Citizenship. Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe” PI A. Pelizza
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020: Postdoc researcher, Universität Wien, Austria. Project: “EU Border Management Inter-agency relations and their impact on fundamental rights” PI P. Slominski
May 2017 - Sept 2018: Postdoc researcher, CNRS, in Tunisia. H2020 “EUNPACK”, EU crisis response in Libya
Teaching activity
She is currently a lecturer at the Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and at the Master's Degree in Semiotics at the University of Bologna. Previously, he taught at the University of Vienna in 2019/2020 as a lecturer; he taught for Georgetown University in Fiesole, and for the Rebaudengo Institute in Turin, with Prof. Luigi Berzano, in 2011.
Scientific activity
She has participated in numerous national and international research programs including: Research Project on the Governance of Borders and Migrations (PRIN 2024), research project Processing Citizenzhip (ERC, PI Annalisa Pelizza, 2020/2024), research project on cooperation between European agencies, European administrative integration and border and migration management (Austrian National Fund FWF, PI Peter Slominski); Horizon2020 project on European Union and management of humanitarian and security crisis in Libya (NUPI Oslo leader)
She has been living and carrying out field research in: Libya; Tunisia; Senegal.
Visiting fellow Dublin City University (2013); ISTEUB Institut supérieur des technologies de l'environnement de l'urbanisme et de batiment at the University of Carthage, Tunisia.
Referee of international and Italian journals in the field of social sciences.
Institutional activities and academic positions
2022 - Pres Member of Seric – Seminars on ongoing research, Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna, Italy
2021 - Pres Affiliated to the CITERES EMAM research network (Cités, TERritoires, Environnement et Sociétés, Équipe Monde arabe et Méditerranée), Université de Tours, CNRS UMR Unit 732 4 France
2020 - Pres Research Associated with the international research project “Colonialité, réclusion et ordre. Formes coloniales et postcoloniales d’internement dans la Méditerranée et aux alentours”, MSH Val de Loire, Tours, dir. F. Correale, Université de Tours
2019 - Pres Parte of the ADIM Academy of Law and Migration network; Italy
2018 - Pres Research associate at Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Tunis, Tunisia 2018 - Pres Centro Studi Sull'Europa (TO-EU), Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy
2014 - 2016 Research associate, research project led by prof. U. Morelli, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, “Global horizons and discourses on Europe”
Membership of scientific and editorial committees
Since 2023, she is part of the editorial board of Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Scientific and Technological Studies. ISSN 2038-3460
Since 2021, she is part of the editorial board of Année du Maghreb, CNRS Éditions, ISSN 2109-9405.
From 2011 to 2012 she was part of the editorial board of Historia Magistra. Rivista di storia critica, dir. Angelo d'Orsi. ISSN: 2036-4040. FrancoAngeli.
Awards and recognitions
March-July 2015 – Scholarship winner, Yale University, Governance and Local Development Program, PI Ellen Lust.
Fieldwork in Tunisia (L’Ariana and Ettadhamun; Sousse), PhD research. Participation in the final conference of the program, Yale University, Service Provision in a Changing Arab World, New Haven CT, USA. Apr 9-10, 2015.
Mar-Apr 2014. Scholarship recipient, Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (CNRS, France), Tunis.
Fieldwork for PhD research in Tunisia (L’Ariana and Ettadhamun; Djerba)
