Istruzione
2020, Dottorato di ricerca in Storia, Culture, Civiltà, XXXII ciclo
Pubblicazioni
2024 Gerarchia e Coercizione. L’utilizzo Politico Della Chieftaincy Nel Ghana Settentrionale Durante l’occupazione Coloniale (1898-1916). Afriche e Orienti 1 (2024): 207–29. https://doi.org/10.23810/AEOXXVIII2024111
2023 The Rise of the ‘Impenetrable Hedge’: African Intermediaries and the Legacy of Colonial Wars in Northern Ghana, 1896–1920. The Journal of African History, 64 (3): 406-421. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000609
2022 Violent politics and silent trade. How contraband, custom and rebellion intersect in North Kivu’s Lubero area, with Jourdan L., Salvaggio G., Vogel C. et al., The Insecure Livelihoods Series, Governance in Conflict network, Ghent University
2021 “Here there is no gold standard”: Currencies, wealth accumulation and the monetary transition in upper colonial Ghana in Pallaver K. (ed.), Monetary Transitions. Currencies, colonialism and African societies, Palgrave MacMillan Economic History Series, pp. 31-53
2020 “From caravans to lorries: shifting patterns of mobility and colonial roadmaking in northern Ghana (1896-1936)”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 53, no.3, pp. 289-314
2019 The Birth of a Town. Indigenous Planning and Colonial Intervention in Bolgatanga, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast in Nunes Silva C. (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa, Routledge: London/New York, pp. 15-27
Website editor
Editor in chief e webmaster del sito https://womatwork.hypotheses.org/, sito web del progetto “Women at Work: for a comparative history of African female urban professions (Sudan, Tanzania and Ghana), 1919-1970” (ERC-CoG-2021, progetto n. 101045774 – CUP J33C22004450006), ISSN 3003-5686, Women at work (Aubervilliers)
Convegni e seminari
2024, 12-14 sett. ASAI VII: “In cerca di appartenenza: comunità e divisioni in Africa/Longing for Belonging: Communities and Divides in Africa”, Messina. Paper presentato: “Mobilità di genere: motorizzazione, commercio e sviluppo in Ghana (1920-1970)”
2024, 27-29 giu. 21st STOREP Annual Conference, Milano. Paper presentato: “Inequality in trade: women, markets, and the definition of wealth in late colonial Ghana”
2024, 9 Gen. “Creative Methodologies: Writing the stories of working women from popular classes in African urban milieux, 1920-1970”, Campus Condorcet, EHESS, Paris. Paper presentato: “Creative Mobilities: Introductory Thoughts on Migration, Infrastructure Development and Market Traders in Colonial Northern Ghana”
2023, 2 giu. “ECAS 2023: African Futures”, University of Cologne, Cologne. Paper presentato in collaborazione con Seiji Nakao (Kyoto University): “Multiple currencies across boundaries: the impact of the Haute Volta/Gold Coast border on monetary practices (1890-1930)”
2020, 15 Gen. Workshop internazionale: “Monetary transitions in colonial Africa”, Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Civiltà, Università di Bologna. Paper presentato: “‘Here there is no gold standard. Cows are the standard.’ Currencies, wealth accumulation and the monetary transition in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1896-1936)”
2019, 8 Nov. Conferenza internazionale: “Internal Migrations and Displacements within Africa: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Dynamics”, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Ravenna. Paper presentato: “Shaping the town: mobility and urbanization in northern Ghana (1897-1940)”
2019, 12 Lug. 3rd Triennial Conference of the Ghana Studies Association “Ghana as a center”, University of Ghana, Accra. Paper presentato: “From teŋa to town: the shift to urban centralization in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast”
2019, 27 Giu. 4th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference “Lagos in the World and the World in Lagos”, University of Lagos, Lagos. Paper presentato: “From teŋa to town: the shift to urban centralization in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast”
2019, 14 Giu. “ECAS2019. Africa: Connections and Disruptions”, University of Edinburgh, Edimburgo. Paper presentato: “From teŋa to town: the shift to urban centralization in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast”
2019, 6 Mar. Workshop per il Progetto di ricerca (PRIN): “Pratiche monetarie e politiche imperiali in Africa orientale (1890-1950): nuove prospettive di ricerca”, Università di Bologna, Bologna. Paper presentato: “La valuta coloniale nei Northern Territories della Gold Coast: una transizione monetaria?”
2018, 13 Ott. 13th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network “Transitions in African Economic History”, Università di Bologna, Bologna. Paper presentato: “Colonial currency in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast: a monetary transition? (1897-1919)”
2018, 3 Lug. Summer School organizzata da AEGIS – Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies “Africa: Connections and Disruptions”, Cagliari. Paper presentato: “Colonial rule or latent resistance? The prolonged process of conquest in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast”
2017, 7 Sett. 2nd International Conference “African Urban Planning”, University of Lisbon, Lisbona. Paper presentato: “The birth of a town. Indigenous Planning and colonial intervention in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast”
Attività di segreteria
2018, Sett. Quinta conferenza ASAI - Associazione per gli studi africani in Italia, PluralAfrica – Politica, sapere e dinamiche sociali nel tempo e nello spazio
2018, Ott. 13th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network, Transitions in African Economic History
Attività editoriale
Caporedattore per la rivista Afriche e Orienti – Rivista di studi al confine tra Africa, Mediterraneo e Medio Oriente, https://www.africheorienti.com/journal
Curatore della newsletter e del sito web di ASAI - Associazione per gli studi africani in Italia (2019/2020)
Reviewer per le riviste The American Historical Review, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, African Economic History, AOQU
Affiliazioni
ASAI – Associazione per gli studi africani in Italia
GSA – Ghana Studies Association
SISI - Società Italiana di Storia Internazionale
