PhD in Anthropologie Sociale et Ethnologie, awarded in 2009 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Research interests: contemporary Sufism and conversions to Islam in Europe; the dissemination, reception and application of Gramscian thought in MENA countries (in particular Egypt and Tunisia); the Italian community in Egypt (19th-20th centuries) and the role of the ‘radical’ press in relation to European colonialism and anti-colonialism.

Recent publications: Le vie del Sufismo verso l'Europa mediterranea. Percorsi di conversione, diffusione e trasformazione sociale, Meltemi, Milan, 2023; Patrizia Manduchi, Alessandra Marchi (eds.), Per una mappatura di Antonio Gramsci nel Sud del mondo. Ricezione, traducibilità, declinazioni teoriche e praxis gramsciane, Unicapress, Cagliari 2022.

Research projects: 

2022-2023. ‘TRANSITI. Political exiles, intellectuals, artists through and beyond the Mediterranean between the 19th and 20th century’. Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPOL), University of Cagliari (grants: Fondazione di Sardegna)

2019-2021. ‘Mapping Gramsci's thought in the world. Reception, translatability, theoretical declinations and Gramscian praxis', Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPOL), University of Cagliari (grants: RAS L.7/2017)