Micaela Porpora is a PhD candidate in Peace Studies (curriculum: "Identity, Memory, Religions, and Peace") at La Sapienza University in Rome, with a research project titled "Rethinking Violence, Practicing Antimilitarism: Transnational Exchanges in Anti-Nuclear Feminism Between Italy and the United Kingdom in the 1980s". She obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Historical Sciences at the University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum. Her research interests focus on the history of women and feminist political thought in contemporary ages, particularly feminist theories and practices concerning violence, pacifism, and social reproduction.