Phd in STORIA E CULTURE DELL'EUROPA

Research: Placemaking, Migration and the Poetics of Identity: Cultural and Religious Practices of Inhabiting Urban Space between Reterritorialization and Translocality

Daria De Grazia is a PhD student in S-DEA/01a within the Doctoral Programme in History and Cultures of Europe at Sapienza University of Rome. She graduated in 2022 in Ethno-anthropological Studies and obtained her diploma from the School of Specialisation in Demo-ethno-anthropological Heritage in 2024, at the same university. Since 2018, she has been conducting ethnographic research with the Peruvian community in Rome, focusing on the relationships between experiences of faith, migratory experiences, festive practices, and the poetics of identity, adopting an approach that also includes visual methodologies. She has been part of the Sapienza Research Units in two PRIN projects (2020 – Inhabiting the Margins Nowadays. Ethnographies of Villages in Italy; 2022 – Local Museums and Ecomuseums. Heritage Spaces for Active Participation), collaborates with the editorial staff of the journal Antropologia Museale, and is a member of the Executive Board of the National Association SIMBDEA. Her research areas include intangible cultural heritage, migration phenomena and identity politics, ecomuseums and ethnographic museums, practices of dwelling, and placemaking processes.