I am a researcher at the Italian-German Historical Institute of the Bruno Kessler Foundation. My work primarily focuses on the history of slavery, abolitionism, and European colonialism, as well as the history of Christianity, the Catholic Church, and missions in the nineteenth century. From 2021 to 2023, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre d’Histoire at Sciences Po Paris, within the ERC project “SlaveVoices.” Between 2022 and 2024, I served as an adjunct lecturer at Sorbonne Université. In October 2021, I earned a joint PhD from the University of Bologna and the Université de Paris. My doctoral thesis won the 2021 award from the Sangalli Institute in Florence and was published as Da «selvaggi» a «moretti». Schiavitù, riscatti e missioni tra Africa ed Europa (1824-1896), Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2023. I also published Da schiavo a missionario. Tra Africa ed Europa, vita e scritti di Daniele Sorur Pharim Den (1860-1900), Roma, Studium, 2020. In the Black Italy project, I focus on the phenomenon of the so-called “moretti” — sub-Saharan African children who were victims of slavery and were ransomed and brought to Europe in the 19th century by Catholic missionaries. Specifically, I am working on the development of a database to track the presence of these “moretti” on Italian soil and on the collection of iconographic sources.

My research explores the intersection of race, violence, and capitalism in the Atlantic world. I hold a dual Ph.D. in Global History of Empires from the University of Turin and in History from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.  I have held visiting positions at Yale University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, where I furthered my research on slavery, migration, and racialized citizenship. I also hold several master's degrees in social policy, cultural anthropology, psychology, criminology, and historical studies, training that informs my interdisciplinary approach to the study of race, law, and historical memory.  I served as a lecturer in the history of the Americas at the University of Turin for two years. My scholarship interrogates the intersections of racial violence, legal regimes, and capitalist development within imperial and transatlantic frameworks. I am the author of numerous publications, including peer-reviewed articles, essays, reviews, and newspaper contributions, and I strive to bridge the gap between academic inquiry and public discourse. I have led three research projects and participated in six Horizon Europe–funded investigations.

I am a researcher at the Italian-German Historical Institute of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler. I specialize in political history, Church history, and local history of Trentino-Alto Adige in the 20th century. I obtained my doctorate from the University of Trento in 2019. I was a research collaborator at Goethe University Frankfurt from 2018 to 2021. I published Celestino Endrici. Un principe vescovo in Italia (1918-1940) (Il Mulino, 2023) and edited Chiesa e nazione ai confini d’Italia (Le Monner, 2021) with Marco Bellabarba.
In the Black Italy project, I am responsible for managing the website.