Dr. Caterina Scaramelli

Biography

Caterina Scaramelli is a Senior Lecturer in the Earth and Environment department at Boston University. Her current research focuses on the mutual constitutions of ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures, particularly concerning people's claims to livelihood and moral subjectivity. She is completing a large ethnographic and archival research project that examines the dynamic multivalence of wetlands in Turkey, exploring how these landscapes become important sites for everyday contestations and new possibilities amidst uncertain politics and rapidly changing environments. Additionally, she is starting new research on ecological precarity and mobility in the Mediterranean. Her work investigates Turkey’s yerel tohumlar and Italy’s semi tradizionali, which are open-pollinated garden seed varieties that reflect concerns about ethnic, regional, religious, and national belonging, particularly during rising authoritarianism, increasing migration, and the heightened climate crisis.

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