Valentina Fusari
Date of birth: 13/1/1981 Nationality: Italian Gender: Female (+39) 3284028101 [email protected] Via Fratelli Marozzi 4, 27100, Pavia, Italy
1/9/2018 – CURRENT – Pavia, Italy
POSTDOC FELLOW – University of Pavia
1/10/2014 – CURRENT – Pavia, Italy
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR – University of Pavia
1/3/2015 – CURRENT – Mirandola, Italy
TRADE DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT – Ri.Mos srl
15/10/2012 – 30/6/2014 – Adi Keyh, Eritrea
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – Adi Keyh College of Arts and Social Sciences
1/5/2007 – 30/4/2008 – Siena, Italy
RESEARCH FELLOW – University of Siena
13/5/2013 – 25/5/2013 – Siena, Italy
VISITING RESEARCHER – University of Siena
16/4/2018 – 22/4/2018 – Nablus, Autonomous Palestinian Territories
VISITING PROFESSOR – An-Najah National University
Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Grant
1/1/2021 – 31/3/2021 – Leiden, Netherlands
VISITING RESEARCHER – African Studies Center Leiden
It was postponed because of covid-19
14/4/2020 – 17/4/2020 – Pilsen, Czechia
VISITING PROFESSOR – University of West Boemia
Postponed because of covid-19
1/3/2018 – CURRENT – Pavia, Italy
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF – Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche
WORK EXPERIENCE
25/4/2014 – 10/5/2015 – Wellington Square, Oxford, United Kingdom
CERTIFICATE - WORKSHOP AND TRAINING SCHOOL “FERTILITY TRANSITION IN AFRICA”
COLLEN PROGRAMME ON FERTILITY, EDUCATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT – University of Oxford
1/1/2008 – 31/12/2010 – Lungarno Pacinotti 43, Pisa, Italy
PHD IN GEOPOLITICS – University of Pisa
1/10/2004 – 20/11/2006 – Via Banchi di Sotto 55, Siena, Italy
MA IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY – University of Siena
1/10/2000 – 21/10/2003 – Via Università 4, Modena, Italy
BA IN CULTURAL SCIENCE – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Mother tongue(s): ITALIAN
UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening Reading Spoken production Spoken interaction
ENGLISH C1 C2 B2 C1 B2
FRENCH C1 C1 B2 B2 B2
ARABIC A1 A2 A2 A1 A1
TIGRINYA A2 A2 A2 A1 A1
Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user
Social Network Office Suite - Microsoft Office GenoPro Email management Mendeley e Zotero database
3/12/2020 – 6/12/2020 – Parma (IT)
VIII CONVEGNO NAZIONALE DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI ANTROPOLOGIA APPLICATA
Gli italo-eritrei. Pratiche di (s)confinamento genealogico nell’Eritrea postcoloniale (paper)
20/6/2019 – 21/6/2019 – Napoli (IT)
Citizens and Subjects in the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructions and Social Practices (1882-1943)
“Meticciato”, Abandoned Childhood and Citizenship: Anthropological and Demographic Considerations about the Eritrean Case Study (paper)
11/6/2019 – 14/6/2019 – Edinburgh (UK)
8th European Conference on African Studies: Collective Mobilisations in Africa
Fertility Transition in Eritrea: Figures and Narratives (paper)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
LANGUAGE SKILLS
DIGITAL SKILLS
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
3/6/2019 – 4/6/2019 – Pavia (IT)
Mobilità e contenimento dei migranti tra Africa e Mediterraneo: le politiche europee e le risposte africane
Le politiche demografiche di contenimento nel Corno d’Africa: dalla crescita alla mobilità (paper)
1/10/2018 – 5/10/2018 – Mekelle (ETH)
20th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES20)
Sliding Italian citizenship. Making and moulding legal and social categories in present-day Eritrea (paper)
14/5/2018 – 16/5/2018 – Nice (FR)
The Philosophy of Customary Law
Ruling with(out) the customary law: the case of Eritrea (paper)
31/8/2017 – 3/9/2017 – Budapest (HUN)
5th European Congress on World and Global History
Eritrean labour relations: female, plural (paper)
28/7/2017 – 28/7/2017 – Pozzallo (IT)
17° Trofeo del Mare
Malattie non trasmissibili sulle sponde del Mediterraneo: emergere e convergere (paper)
8/2/2017 – 10/2/2017 – Firenze (IT)
Population Days 12th Edition
Fertility transition in Eritrea: figures and narratives (paper)
22/9/2016 – 24/9/2016 – Catania (IT)
ASAI Conference: Africa in fermento. Conflitti, modernità, religioni
Panel organizer: Gender, mobility, (inter)subjectivity Problematizing prostitution in Eritrea (paper)
23/6/2016 – 24/6/2016 – Bari (IT)
3rd Escapes Annual Conference
Panel organizer: Matrimoni, relazioni di coppia e genere nel contesto della migrazione forzata L’amore ai tempi dell’esilio: relazioni di coppia e migrazioni forzate (paper)
16/6/2016 – 17/6/2016 – Pavia (IT)
International workshop. Understanding and managing migration in Africa. Multidimensional perspectives
Mobility transition in Eritrea: national and international impact (paper)
3/4/2016 – 4/4/2016 – Pavia (IT)
La Libia al crocevia tra Africa e Mediterraneo
Libia: Paese di “accoglienza” o di transito per i migranti del Corno d'Africa? (paper)
19/11/2015 – 19/11/2015 – Pavia (IT)
Female empowerment and women's access to politics in Africa
Valutazione della presenza femminile e relativo impatto nella sfera politica in Africa (workshop)
8/10/2015 – 10/10/2015 – Udine (IT)
Triennial SIDeS Conference: A history of the Italian Population in the XX century
Comboni Missionary Sisters in Eritrea (1914-2014) (paper)
8/7/2015 – 10/7/2015 – Paris (FR)
6th European Conference on African Studies: Collective Mobilisations in Africa
Unsafe abortion in Eritrea: facts and social values (paper)
21/6/2015 – 25/6/2015 – Zagreb (HR)
12th Congress International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. Utopian, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century
Ethnodemographic notes about Somali refugees in Eritrea (paper)
22/4/2015 – 22/4/2015 – Urbino (IT)
Seminari di Etnologia e Antropologia Culturale in onore di Margaret Mead ed Elizabeth Colson
L'utilizzo delle fonti e della metodologia quantitativa nella ricerca etnografica e storica: il caso dell'Eritrea (seminario)
18/2/2015 – 20/2/2015 – New Delhi (IN)
Global public health infrastructure in transition: challenges and a way forward
Impact of gender gap on women’s wellbeing (paper)
18/12/2014 – 20/12/2014 – Pavia (IT)
Il colonialismo dopo il colonialismo
Eritrea-Italia. Na(rra)zioni allo specchio: deformazioni, strategie e modelli dell’emergenza migratoria (paper)
21/11/2014 – 23/11/2014 – Lucknow (IN)
12th Conference of Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health – Health Gender and Development: multidisciplinary perspectives
Impact of socio-economic status on women’s wellbeing (paper)
14/11/2014 – 14/11/2014 – Pavia (IT)
Winter School "Project Cycle Management for International Cooperation"
Formulazione delle policy: valutazione del territorio (seminario)
17/9/2014 – 20/9/2014 – Macerata (IT)
ASAI Conference: Africa on the move
Gold mining in Eritrea: labour dynamics in past and present (paper)
27/6/2013 – 29/6/2013 – Lisbon (PT)
5th European Conference on African Studies: African dynamics in a multipolar world
Eritrean gold fields: from past hopes to present and future “benefits” (paper) Eritrean female breadwinners: the Dolcevita case study in Asmara (paper)
6/2/2013 – 8/2/2013 – Brixen (IT)
Population Days 10th Edition
Il settore minerario in Eritrea: opportunità lavorative e problematiche socio-demografiche (poster)
24/9/2008 – 26/9/2008 – Grosseto (IT)
Geografie del popolamento. Casi di studio, metodi e teorie
Territorio e popolamento: un inscindibile intreccio fra quantitativo e qualitativo (paper)
9/10/2007 – 10/10/2007 – Siena (IT)
Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea
Famiglia e impresa in area Valdelsana “il dovere di” and “l'aspettarsi che” (paper)
1/1/2006 – 31/12/2007
PAR (Progetto di Ateneo per la Ricerca) "Network di parentela, generazioni, nuove forme di famiglia"
University of Siena - Dept. of Philosophy and Social Sciences PI: Prof. Pier Giorgio Solinas
Assigned research: Families and Entrepreneurship in Valdelsa
1/1/2007 – 31/12/2007
Istituto di Studi Politici S.Pio V (Roma) - Funded Project "Flussi di conoscenza: organizzazioni internazionali, nuovi studi, strategie partecipative"
University of Siena - Dept. Political and International Sciences PI: Prof. Cinzia Buccianti
Assigned research: The importance of fieldwork in assessing feasibility in development cooperation
1/1/2008 – 31/12/2008
Fondazione Monte dei Paschi - Progetto finanziato "Metodologia e ricerca etnodemografica"
University of Siena - Dept. Political and International Sciences PI: Prof.ssa Cinzia Buccianti
Assigned research: ethnographic cases to edit "Lineamenti di Etnodemografia" (Cedam, 2008) 1/3/2013 – 28/2/2014
INTER-ACTIVITY @ CASS
Adi Keyh College of Arts and Social Sciences (Eritrea) with the sponsorship of foreign diplomatic missions in Eritrea (Italy, France, South Africa, EU, China)
Contributions for an interdisciplinary overview on the development praxis in political, economic, and cultural domains in Africa
PI: Valentina Fusari
15/1/2015 – 31/10/2018
UNIPV TSA MIGRAT.IN.G MIGRATions: towards an INterdisciplinary Governance model
Research Gruppo16, member: A historical perspective of migration and human mobility between Europe, Africa and the Mediterranean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: political, institutional, cultural aspects and belonging
1/10/2017 – 30/9/2018
BLUE SKY RESEARCH 2017 - Puntualità, produttività e profitto. Il dibattito su tempo ed etica del lavoro nel Corno d’Africa durante il XX secolo: le fonti locali
University of Pavia - Dept. Political and Social Sciences PI: Prof. Massimo Zaccaria
Assigned research: Eritrean case study (textile sector, missionaries)
PROJECTS
15/7/2020 – CURRENT
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE "Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa: Transformative Leadership for Social Change in Institutions of Higher Learning"
PI: Dr. Veronica Fynn Bruey
Assigned role: head of the investigation unit on gender issue in Eritrea from a historical and intersectional perspective
1/5/2007 – 31/5/2007
Municipality of Siena - Research funded by Fondazione Monte dei Paschi
Archival research, data digitalization and processing about Census 1901 and Jewish Census 1938
15/1/2014 – 30/4/2014
International Institute of Social History - "Il Lavoro"
Archival research at the Pavoni Social Center in Asmara (Eritrea) aimed at digitalizing and describing "Il Lavoro. Settimanale democratico del PLSI" published in Eritrea from 1947 to 1951
15/5/2016 – CURRENT
International Institute of Social History - "Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations in the period 1500-2000"
PI: Prof. Karin Hofmeester
Scientific responsible for data collection, processing and analysis about labpur relations in Eritrea (1900, 1950, 2000)
11/7/2019 – CURRENT
Global _Scapes
Edition 2020 - International Winter School "Global CoffeeScapes. Understanding the Coffee Commodity Chain: Labour Land and Environment" (3-7 February 2020, University di Pavia)
Director
Contenimento demografico in Cina fra pianificazione e tradizione
Nike 2005
Famiglie di miniera. Popolamento e mutamenti sociali nella comunità di Ribolla
Foggia: Elearning Edizioni 2006
Lineamenti di etnodemografia
Padova: Cedam 2008
co-author C. Buccianti
Territorio e popolamento: un inscindibile intreccio fra quantitativo e qualitativo
2009
In Territorio e popolamento: un inscindibile intreccio fra quantitativo e qualitativo, in Jànica Macchi G., Geografie del popolamento. Casi di studio, metodi e teorie. Grosseto, 24-26 settembre 2008, Siena: Fieravecchia, 239-243.
co-author C. Buccianti
Dinamiche etnodemografiche all'interno dello spazio geopolitico eritreo
Siena: Libreria Scientifica 2011
PUBLICATIONS
Il “dovere di” e “l’aspettarsi che”. Famiglia, formazione personale ed ereditarietà imprenditoriale
2011
In Grilli S., Zanotelli F. (eds.), Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea, Pisa: ETS, 233-255.
Mo(vi)menti di studio tra la demografia e l’antropologia
Siena: Libreria Scientifica 2012
co-author C. Buccianti
Comunità minerarie d’Italia. Riflessioni per un modello socio-demografico
Quaderni Mythos, Rivista Atopon, n.3 2013
co-author C. Buccianti
Esempi di miniera in Africa. Eritrea e Ghana
Africana Rivista di Studi Extraeuropei, 3: 41-66 2013
co-author C. Buccianti
Percorsi africani. Saggi storico-demografici e antropologici a sud del Mediterraneo
Siena: Libreria Scientifica 2013
co-author C. Buccianti
Comboni Missionary Sisters in Eritrea (1914-2014)
Annales d’Ethiopie 30: 45-69 2015
Ulcère de Buruli: des horizons thérapeutiques en hôpital et en brousse
Angéiologie, 67(1): 29-41 2015
co-authors Iabichella M.L., Salmon O., Bertolotti A., Izzo A., Lugli M.
Dinamiche discendenti. Diritto ereditario ed eredità genetica
Africana Rivista di Studi Extraeuropei, 43-56 2016
co-author C. Buccianti
Femminile, Plurale: Pie Madri della Nigrizia in Eritrea (1914-2014)
2016
In Fornasin A., Lorenzin C., Per una storia della popolazione italiana nel Novecento. Atti del Convegno SIDeS, 8-10 ottobre 2015, Udine: Forum, 235-246.
Impact of socio-economic status on women’s wellbeing
International Journal of Business Anthropology, 6(1): 109-125 2016
co-authors Venkatnarayanan S., Veeramani S.
Traditional players for a global game. The difficult position of People With Albinism (PWA) in their society (North-West Tanzania)
2016
In Sassu A., Melis N. (eds.), Economics and Minorities in Africa in the Post-Colonial Age – Nova Collectanea Africana, 73-102.
co-author C. Buccianti
Africa e Europa allo specchio: contesti e pretesti della mobilità circolare
Federalismi, 1 2017
co-author E. Dal Zotto
A case of skin ulcer in severe acute malnutrition treated with Hyperoil
Austin J Clin Case Rep, 4(1) 2017
co-authors Iabichella M.L., Largo P., Pediliggieri C., Sawadogo E., Izzo A., Bertolotti A.
Un’opportunità per chi? Peculiarità e ambiguità delle migrazioni di ritorno in Eritrea
Africa e Mediterraneo, 86: 35-38 2017
I dati demografici relativi alle migrazioni
2018
In Calabrò A.R. (ed), Disegnare, attraversare, cancellare i confini. Una prospettiva interdisciplinare, Torino: Giappichelli, 48-58.
La cittadinanza come lascito coloniale e opportunità attuale: gli italo-eritrei dopo l’indipendenza dell’Eritrea
Altreitalie 57: 34-51 2018
L’amore ai tempi dell’esilio: prospettive sulle relazioni di coppia nel contesto della migrazione forzata
Studi Emigrazione LV: 593-615 2018
Libya: Hosting or Transit Country for Migrants from the Horn of Africa?
Afriche e Orienti XX: 95-112 2018
T(h)reating borders and population in the Horn of Africa: a deficit of attention
2019
In Puddu L. (a cura di), Governing the borders of the Horn of Africa, Roma: Institute for Global Studies, 13-20.
Esperienze edificanti. Tempi, modi e lasciti dell'infrastrutturazione nell'Africa coloniale italiana
2020
In S. Bortolotto, N. Cattaneo, R. Riboldazzi (a cura di), Infrastrutture e colonizzazione. Il caso africano tra heritage e sviluppo, Firenze: Altralinea, 28-45.
Failed democratisation and female empowerment: the case of Eritrea
2020
In Kioco C., Kagumire R., Matandela M. (a cura di), Challenging Patriarchy The Role of Patriarchy in the Roll-back of Democracy, Berlino:Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 34-50.
Between Legacy and Agency: Italo-Eritreans raised in Orphanages and their Access to Italian Citizenship
Northeast African Studies, 20(1-2): 59-90 2020
Eritrea 1882-1941. Una riflessione sulle voci del verbo violare
Altreitalie 50: 52-75 2020
Technical expertise
Main Research Area Horn of Africa Reserarch Interests
Popuation Studies (fertility and mobility); Demographic Anthropolog; Colonial Demography: Gender Studies; (Critical) Mixed Race Studies
Methodological Skills
Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection; Fieldwork; Focus Group; Interview; Archival Research
