Current position:
A.Y. 2023-24: Research Fellow, Luigi Einaudi Foundation, Turin. Project title: Editing a Free Africa and a Desegregated World: The Transnational Antiracist Press and Imperial Censorship in the African Continent and Diaspora, 1910s-40s.
Education:
November 2020-January 2024: PhD in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics at the University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures. Research project in Contemporary history, title: Print Cultures as Political Networks: The Circulation of Anticolonial and Antiracist Periodicals in Africa and the African Diaspora, 1910s-1930s, supervised by Prof. Paolo Capuzzo. Final grade: Excellent cum laude.
September 2018-October 2020: MPhil in History and Oriental Studies (curriculum Global Cultures), University of Bologna.
September 2014-March 2018: BA in Philosophy, University of Bologna.
Grants and awards:
AY 2023-24: ‘Giulio Einaudi’ Research Fellowship – Luigi Einaudi Foundation, Turin
2023: Annual Article Prize – Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (Sissco)
2023: William P. Heidrich Research Fellowship – University of Michigan
2021: Marco Polo mobility scholarship – University of Bologna
2019: Erasmus+ mobility scholarship
2017: Erasmus+ mobility scholarship
2017: Excellence scholarship – University of Bologna
Languages:
Italian: Native Language
English: C2
French: C1 (DALF Alliance Française)
Modern Standard Arabic: Level 3 (Qalam wa Lawh Center, Rabat)
Portuguese, Spanish: Receptive Skills
Teaching experience:
April 2024-June 2024, April 2023-June 2023: Teaching Assistant in the program ‘Duke in Bologna’, Duke University, Dept. of Romance Studies.
AY 2022-23: Joint supervision of MPhil thesis in African History, University of Bologna, Dept. of History and Cultures.
Affiliations:
SISSCo (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History
ASA (African Studies Association USA)
Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
‘The transnational policing of anticolonialists: imperial intelligence, revolutionary networks, and their archives, 1905-45’, Contemporanea 26, no. 1 (2023): 143-57 [review article].
‘The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign, racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism in South Asia (1935-1936)’, Journal of Global History 18 (2023): 47-67 [research article].
‘Three pan-Africanist readings of the “Moorish” participation in the Spanish Civil War. Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and George Padmore’, Contemporanea 23, no. 2 (2020): 201-24 [research article].
Conference papers:
‘Anti-Colonial and Anti-Racist Iconography across Africa and the Diaspora: Visual Language and Circulation (1910s-60s)’. International conference Turning the Map Upside Down: Connected Histories of Decolonization, Third Worldism, and Radical Activism, Università di Torino. 27-28 May 2024.
‘“Black (Wo)Men in Red Russia”: Narratives of Radicalization by African American Communists, 1930s-70s’. International workshop Autobiographical practices in 20th century global communism, Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna. 18 April 2024.
‘The other shore of the Spanish Civil War: African anticolonialists and the Republican cause (1936-39)’ (25-27 October 2023). International conference A World without Empire? Encounters and connections between African, European, and Soviet Communists, 1920s to 1970s, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
‘The cross-cultural transformation of the European radical tradition in Southern Africa (1921-45)’ (22 September 2023). Workshop Marxism in Motion: The intellectual history of Marxism in and about the Global South during the early twentieth century, University College London.
‘Récupération et circulation des images’ (21 March 2023). Seminar Les pratiques d’influence aux XXe et XXIe siècles, EHESS École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
‘The Afrodiasporic debate on the colonial and racial dimension of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)’ (7 February 2023). Seminar Ateliers Ouverts de la Recherche, Center for Global Studies de l’Université Internationale de Rabat.
‘”Echoed and re-echoed”: Radical print cultures in dialogue across the Black Atlantic (1918-33)’ (22-24 June 2022). Workshop Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, PhD in Global History and Governance.
‘Reti di informazione e propaganda anticoloniale fra continente e diaspora africana, 1917-45’ (6-8 June 2022). XVI Workshop Nazionale Dottorandi Sissco, University of Catania, Department of Political and Social Sciences.
Co-organizer of the Seminar Black Marxism 40 years on: Current and interdisciplinary engagement with Cedric J. Robinson’s “racial capitalism”’ (21 April 2022). University of Bologna, PhD in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics.
‘“To translate the ideas of the social revolution into the Bantu idiom”: the Communist Party of South Africa and the problem of multilingual propaganda (1915-38)’ (9-10 March 2022). Workshop Building connections between Soviet, European, and African communists, 1920s to 1960s, University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures.
‘Black anticolonial internationalism and the rise of global fascism: the African and Afrodiasporic participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)’ (27 October 2021). SOAS History Seminar, SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), Department of History.
‘The diasporic history of Umsebenzi, the first newspaper of the Communist Party of South Africa’ (6 October 2021). Giornata di Studi 2021, University of Bologna, PhD in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics.
‘Pan-Africanism or Communism? The global revolution in the pages of the Negro World (1918-33)’ (4 March 2021). Workshop Un mondo senza imperi. Reti, incontri e immaginario dei comunisti nell’epoca della decolonizzazione in Africa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
