I am Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus). I held previous teaching and research positions in Anthropology, Global Health and History of Medicine at the European University Institute, Oxford University, the Collège de France (LAS-EHESS) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I am a social and medical anthropologist, PI of an ERC-funded project entitled 'EU Border Care' (2015-21) which examines migration, maternity care and reproductive health in European borderlands. Together with M. Brightman (Unibo) and N. Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University) I am also co-investigator on a collaborative project which studies migrant death, mourning and memorialisation in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, ‘Ecologies of Remembrance: The Moral Afterlives of Migrant Human Remains Along the Central Mediterranean Route’ (2018-21). I have been conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northeastern Amazonia since 2002 and in the Mediterranean since 2015. I have published on medicine and colonialism, kinship and gender, personhood, animism and material culture, migration and borderlands, and history and memorialisation. My most recent books include 'Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: Encounters with Alterity in Birth and Death' (co-edited with Marc Brightman, Palgrave, 2021) and 'Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia' (Berghahn, 2022).