Academic positions
- 2025--> MSCA Global fellow at the University of Bologna (SPS) and at Columbia University (Department of Anthropology)
- 2023/2024 Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna (DISCI), funded by Gerda Henkel Stiftung
- 2-10/2023 Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Teramo.
- 2021/2022 Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna in partnership with École Normale Supérieure (Paris), research grant co-funded by Università Franco-Italiana.
- 2020/2021 Post-doctoral Researcher at Centre d'Histoire - SciencesPo (Paris), ERC grant directed by Professor M'hamed Oualdi, visiting at École Française de Rome.
- 2019/2024 Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna
Education and training
- 6/12/2018 Phd in History, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) and University of Florence. Dissertation title: “Les Italiens de Tunisie. La construction de l’italianité dans un contexte colonial français”. Supervisors: Gilles Pécout (EPHE), Nicola Labanca (University of Siena).
- 2014 “Licenza” of Collegio Superiore dell’Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna.
- 2014 “Diplôme” of Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris.
- 2014 Master 2 in Mediterranean History - École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).
- 2013 Master 1 in Cultural History - Sorbonne University (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
- 2012 Bachelor’s degree in History. Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna.
Job experience:
- 26/2 - 26/3/2019 Team member for the mid-term evaluation of a European Cooperation project in Tunisia concerning women empowerment in rural areas.
- 2014-2015 Teaching assistant in History and Civilization of Italy (undergraduate course) “L’Italie contemporaine 1945-1992”, at Institut d’Études Politiques - Saint Germain en Laye.
- 2014- 2015 Adjunct in International Exchange program at University of Cergy-Pontoise-Versailles-Yvelines.
- 2015 Teaching assistant in Historiography, Methodology and sources ( graduate course), at EPHE.
Fellowships & fieldwork experience:
- 9/2020-2022, grant for a research on Italian Antifascism in Tunisia (1939-1943) - Valenzi Foundation (Naples).
- 5-7/2019 Research grant - Deutsches Historisches Institut of Rome (cancelled due to covid-19 lockdown).
- 07/2015 - 2018 Scholarship grant for international mobility, Université Franco-Italienne.
- 04/2016 – 07/2017 Fieldwork in Tunisia - visiting PhD student at Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis).
- 2/2 – 2/3/2017 Visiting PhD student at Remarque Institute - New York University.
- 02-03/2016 Fellowship for fieldwork granted by École Française de Rome.
- 7/2015 Arabic summer class at Institut Français d’Égypte – Cairo.
- 23 – 26/09/2013 Summer School at the European University Institute.
- 1 – 10/7/2013 Summer School at dār al-mu‘allimiyn al-‘aliyn (École Normale Supérieure) of Tunis.