The Collective
Il collettivo Black Med nasce da una esperienza editoriale (Black mediterranean: Borders, Bodies and Citizenship) che prende il Mediterraneo nero come punto di partenza per interrogarsi sulla produzione razzializzata di confini, corpi e cittadinanza nel contesto del Mediterraneo contemporaneo. Il comitato editoriale del progetto BlackMed si pone invece l'obiettivo di accompagnare la riscrittura collettiva del Mediterraneo come spazio diasporico e transfrontaliero. Crediamo che un'analitica intrinsecamente interdisciplinare come il Mediterraneo nero richieda necessariamente un approccio all'editing multi-vocale, collaborativo e non gerarchico. La nostra redazione è inteso come uno spazio consensuale dove condividere pratiche culturali che combattono ed oltrepassano i confini imposti dalle categorie di razza e di genere.​
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The Team
Cristina Lombardi-Diop
Cristina Lombardi-Diop is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and the Director of the Italian Program at Loyola University, Chicago, where she holds an appointment in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department. At the intersection of different academic and professional world, her career as educator and scholar has spanned over two continents. She was born and raised in Rome, where she completed her undergraduate education with an Italian laurea (Magna cum Laude) in Modern Languages and Literatures; she then arrived to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar to complete a terminal Master Degree in African Studies at Yale University, before continuing for a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at New York University.
Cristina is fluent in four languages and truly devoted to international education, having spent five years as a faculty and administrator at The American University of Rome – an independent, international Liberal Arts college in the heart of the eternal city. Her range of expertise spans from modern and contemporary Italian literature, Italian film, colonial and postcolonial studies, migration studies, critical race theory, queer and postmodern theory. For Loyola she teaches courses for three different units, including Modern Languages and Literatures, Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, and the Honors Program. Course subjects include feminist theory, queer theory, women and migration, Italian film genre, and African literature.
Ida Danewid
Ida Danewid is Lecturer in Gender and Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at UCL. Her research focuses on racial capitalism, anti-colonial political thought, and interconnected histories of raced, sexed, carceral, and ecological violence. Before joining Sussex in 2019, Ida was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and the editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Beyond the academy, her work has appeared at the Berlin Art Week as well as the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo gallery in Turin, Italy. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2020 Best Article in European Journal of International Relations. Ida's first monograph, Resisting Racial Capitalism: Revolutionary Worldmaking Beyond the State, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Angelica Pesarini
Researcher
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Gabriele Proglio
Researcher
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Giulia Grechi
Research Assistant
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Timothy Raeymaekers
Research Assistant
Timothy Raeymaekers joined the University of Bologna’s Geography section in January 2022 after being a senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Zürich’s Geography Institute for 10 years. He holds an MA in History from the University of Ghent, a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Ghent. Timothy’s research concentrates on resource frontiers: spaces where public authority over the earth (and its subsoil), and the human bodies toiling it, is fundamentally questioned, challenged and constantly reconfiguring. In particular, he is interested in informal commodity and labour markets in Central Africa and the Mediterranean. His work, which also tries to raise broader questions about the margins of state rule, frontiers and liminality, has been awarded both academically (his book Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo: Power to the Margins won the ‘Toyin Falola Africa Book Award’) and beyond (involving exhibitions at the Matera2019 cultural capital of Europe and in the Zurich Design Museum in 2022, amongst others). Methodologically, his work engages with ethnography as well as the cultural representation of Otherness in written text, theatre and the arts, with a particular focus on the construction of the relation between nature, the state and citizenship.
Camilla Hawthorne
Research Assistant
Camilla Hawthorne is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. She is a principal faculty member in the UCSC Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program, and a faculty affiliate of the UCSC Science & Justice Research Center and Legal Studies Program. Camilla serves as Chair of the Black Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, and is a project manager and faculty member for the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Along with the Black Mediterranean Collective, she is co-editor of the 2021 volume The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship. Her forthcoming 2022 monograph with Cornell University Press, Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean, explores the ways that citizenship has emerged as a key terrain of struggle over racial nationalism in Italy, and—bringing together insights from critical migration/citizenship studies and Black studies—argues that citizenship is crucial for understanding how racism and race are being reconfigured in the twenty-first century.
Giuseppe Grimaldi
Research Assistant
Giuseppe Grimaldi is a social anthropologist (University of Trieste) interested in the effects of transnational migrations in Europe. He focuses on the ways migration patterns from global South impact on European citizenship, belonging and sense of place with a specific attention on children of immigrants and migrant agricultural workers.
He is the founder and the legal representative of Frontiera Sud Aps a research-innovation organization working on the nexus between migrations and local identity.
Vivian Gerrand
Dr Vivian Gerrand is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She is a Chief Investigator on the Horizon 2020 BRaVE (Building Resilience against Violent Extremism) research and program grant, and also contributes to the Horizon 2020 GREASE Research and Innovation project on secularism, radicalization and the governance of religion, both led by European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging (Melbourne University Press 2016) and, with the Black Mediterranean Collective, a co-editor of The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship(Palgrave 2021).
Timothy Raeymaekers
Research Assistant
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