Research:
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
November 2020 – present: PhD Student in History, Anthropology, Religions, La Sapienza University of Rome.
January 2019: Master's degree in Anthropology, La Sapienza University of Rome, with the dissertation: “Ngunjä, God’s house. The construction of ritual space among the Otomi of the Eastern Mexico” (full marks with honours).
September 2016: Bachelor's degree in History, Anthropology, Religions, La Sapienza University of Rome, with the dissertation: “The book’s land. Pictographic codices of ancient Mexico” (full marks with honours).
July 2011: Certificate for the German language: “Goethe Zertifikat B2”, Goethe Institut of Rome.
July 2005: Language High School diploma, E. Hemingway High School, Civitavecchia.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
From April to September 2019: Ethnographic fieldwork in the Sierra otomi-tepehua, State of Hidalgo, (Mexico) as graduate student, in order to research on otomi’s ritual iconography for the master’s thesis.
INVITED TALKS
19/06/202: “Habitar el mundo. La relación entre el hombre y el ambiente en la ritualidad otomí”. On line conference, Institute of Italian Culture of the City of Mexico.
21/10/2020: “Ngunjä, casa de Dios. La construcción del espacio ritual entre los Otomies del México oriental.”, On line conference, Coloquios Internacionales sobre Otopames 2020.
AWARDS
August 2020 : Noémi Quezada Prize for the best master’s thesis on Otopames people.
LANGUAGES
Mother tongue: Italian
Other language:
French: Advanced (C1)
Spanish: Upper-Intermediate (B2)
German: Upper-Intermediate (Goethe Zertifikat B2)
English: Intermediate (B1)