Research: Hindu festivals in Italy. Affirmation and recognition of Italian Hinduism through devotional and festive practices
Graduated in Anthropology (2013) at the Sapienza University of Rome with a dissertation entitled 'Shamanism and Healing. Neo-shamanic practices and traditional medicine in contemporary Mexico". At the same university, she obtained a Master in "Religions and Cultural Mediation" (2015) with a dissertation entitled: "The teaching of Religions and Beliefs in public schools. Comparative perspectives between Europe and the United States of America: the case of the Toledo Guiding Principles and the AAR Guidelines for Teaching about Religion in comparison". She then specialised with a Master's degree in History of Religion (2018), with a dissertation entitled 'Rethinking religion through alternative spiritualities: the case of Harnerian shamanism in Italy'.
In 2018, she attended the Training Course "Protection, Integration and Vulnerability of Migrants and Refugees" (Faculty of Political Science- Sapienza University of Rome).
Her research interests are consolidated by a long work and field experience. In the last years she collaborated with Centro Astalli- Jesuit Refugee Service (2015-2018). She worked as a researcher at the IPRS - Psychoanalytic Institute for Social Research (2018-2022), where she was involved in social project planning desk and field research activities for the study of contemporary social phenomena; since 2022 she has been collaborating with Activecitizenship's School of Continuing Education.
She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History and Religious Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome, with a research project on Hindu festivals of diasporic communities in Italy and the valorisation of cultural and religious practices as a tool for recognition and social inclusion.
Her areas of study and interest are: religions in contemporary times, religious festivals, the relationship between migration and religions, minority religions, new forms of contemporary spirituality, Hinduism in Italy, sacred spaces and places, urban ethnography, visual methods for ethnographic research.