Curriculum Vitae
Education
2008
Dr. phil. (Ethnology/Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin)
Dissertation: Land and Power in Khorezm. Farmers, Communities and the State in Uzbekistan’s Decollectivisation Process. Supervisor: Thomas Zitelmann
2001
Degree in Philosophy, La Sapienza University of Rome (‘tesi di laurea’; MA equivalent)
Thesis: Contratto e cultura, teoria politica e pluralismo culturale
1997
Degree in Ethnology/Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin (‘Grundstudium’; BA equivalent)
Employment
Since September 2012
Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Research Group “Industry and Inequality in Eurasia”.
February-August 2012
Parental leave
2011-2012
Research fellow, Central Asia Seminar, Humboldt University Berlin; Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Free University Berlin.
2010
Contract lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern.
2008-2010
Gerda Henkel postdoctoral research fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), Berlin.
2007-2008
Tutor at the Master Programme on International Cooperation, Human Rights, and Peacekeeping in the Mediterranean and the Balkans, University of Lecce.
2002-2005
Junior Research Fellow at the Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (Centre for Development Research), University of Bonn.
Membership in Professional Societies
German Anthropological Association
European Society for Central Asian Studies
Central Eurasian Studies Society
Teaching
2002-2012
Seminar teaching, doctoral workshops, and summer schools at Humboldt University Berlin, Free University Berlin, University of Bern, University of Rome III, University of Samarkand.
Fieldwork
Kazakhstan: March 2013; September 2013-April 2014
Uzbekistan: Khorezm: 2003-2004, 2006 (ca. 12 months)
Ferghana Valley: 1997, 1998, 2001-2, 2009 (ca. 10 months)
Languages
Italian (mother tongue), German, English, Uzbek, French, Russian (basic), Turkish (basic)