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Valentina Zagaria is an ethnographer specializing in borders, migration, and social change in North Africa and the Mediterranean. She holds the position of Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department at the University of Manchester and is an Affiliated Researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain in Tunis. Valentina's research focuses on the experiences of young people in Tunisia, particularly through collaborative projects that involve innovative methods such as devising performances and exploring themes of knowledge exchange related to the sea. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2020, where her thesis examined the connections between dignity, social death, and revolutionary migratory movements in Tunisia. During her post-doctoral fellowship at Central European University in Vienna from 2020 to 2022, she researched the roles of Libyan women in civil society efforts. Valentina has contributed to various academic and journalistic publications, including the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and American Behavioral Scientist, and she actively collaborates with activist artist collectives throughout the Mediterranean region.
University of Manchester • Manchester, UK
Conducting research on borders, migration, and social change, focusing on collaborative projects with young people in Tunisia.
Central European University • Vienna, Austria
Researched the engagement of Libyan women in civil society.
Includes MSc in Advanced Electrical Power Systems and MSc in Communications and Signal Processing.