Research: "The height of human decadence": poor whites in Italian East Africa (1936-1941)
PhD student at the University of Rome "La Sapienza
01/11/2023 - present
Department of History Anthropology Religions Art Performance SARAS
XXXIX cycle, with scholarship
Professional experience
- Researcher for COMITES (Comitato Italiani all'Estero) Addis Ababa
01/08/2022 - 01/01/2023
Data collection activities for the project "The Italian community in Ethiopia after 1941", funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Conducting ten oral interviews with witnesses of post-colonial history of the Italian community in Ethiopia (1941-1974) and reviewing the audiovisual material collected.
- Researcher at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, University of Addis Ababa
15/11/2022 - 20/12/2022
Research in two Italian colonial archives, funded by DISCI Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna Department.
- Internship in internationalisation projects at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
01/05/2022 - 31/07/2022
- Tutor at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
07/06/2022 - 31/07/2022
Tutor for incoming students at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Dual Degree UniBo-UDE project.
Education and training
- Master in History and Oriental Studies
01/09/2020 - 16/03/2023
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
110L/110 / Thesis "The poor whites in Italian East Africa (1936-1941)".
Supervisor: Karin Pallaver / Co-supervisor: Haile Muluken
- Degree in History
01/09/2017 - 31/07/2020
University of Turin
110L/110 - Dissertation "The Catholic and Communist Subcultures from the Republic of the Parties to the Present".
Supervisor: Paolo Soddu
Acknowledgements
- Winner of the Call for Proposals for the Preparation of a Master's Thesis Abroad - Courses offered by the Department of History, Cultures and Civilisations (DISCI)
05/07/2022
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Grant of € 1,735.00 for the preparation of a Master's thesis at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa University).
- Selected among 40 University of Bologna Excellences to participate in the third edition of the Intrapreneurship Programme
03/01/2022
Programme of excellence aimed at studying the dynamics of the operation and development of strategic actions of the University. Participation in a cycle of lectures (25 hours) and internship in the Training and Doctorate Area, Area Services and Projects Department (AFORM, 125 hours).
Conferences and seminars
- Economic crimes as a case study of interracial contacts in Italian East Africa (1936-1941)
22/06/2023 - 23/06/2023
ASMI Postgraduate Summer School 2023, Pisa
Role: Speaker
- The history of Italian colonialism in Ethiopia
07/12/2022 - 12/12/2022
Italian National Institute of Addis Abeba (Belay Zeleke Street)
Role: Speaker
- Youth and Italian comedy
20/10/2022
Italian Cultural Institute of Addis Abeba
XXII Week of the Italian Language in the World, 17-23 October 2022, Theme: "The Italian language and young people".
Role: Speaker
Publication
- "Road workers in the AOI: economic conditions, precariousness and agency"
In the process of publication for the journal "Society and History"
- "'A matter of attitude': acts of racial degradation in Italian East Africa"
In the process of publication for the journal "Storicamente"
Language skills
English C1 (IELTS certificate dated 17 June 2023: overall score 7.5)
Norwegian A1