Elisa Cuglig (Gorizia, 1997) graduated in 2022 in Cultural Heritage Conservation from the University of Genoa, with a thesis in cultural heritage law entitled "Recognition, Enhancement and Conservation of Urban Art" (supervisor: Prof. Matteo Timo). In 2025, she obtained with honors a Master’s degree in Art History from Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis on "Eduardo Ximenes and the Italian Colonial Imagination at the End of the Nineteenth Century" (supervisor: Prof. Francesca Gallo; co-supervisor: Prof. Carmen Belmonte). In the same year, she was awarded a research fellowshipwithin the university project "From Third-Worldism to Postcolonialism: Visual Imaginaries of Otherness in Italy (1979–2009)". She completed internships at the State Archives of Genoa and at the Archives of the Directorate-General for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape (DGABAP) in Rome, where she focused on the management and valorization of documentary heritage. She is currently a PhD candidate in Art History (XLI cycle) at Sapienza University of Rome, conducting research on representations of Italian colonialism, with particular attention to figurative strategies and visual narratives in illustrated periodicals between 1882 and 1921.