I am postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities Department at the University Federico II (Naples- Italy).
In 2020, I obtained a PhD in Historical Sciences with a thesis work directed by Professor Valerio Petrarca (Cultural Anthropology- Federico II in Naples) and Jean-Pierre Dozon (current director of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris).
During my PhD, I studied Sufi Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and the Muridiyya brotherhood in Senegal where I conducted most of my field work between 2012 and 2018. My dissertation work entitled «ILA TOUBA. Le Grand Magal des mourides au Senegal» is a historical and ethnographic study of one of the most important pilgrimages in sub-Saharan Africa. A monograph of the work in Italian is forthcoming.
I am currently holding a research grant at the University Federico II of Naples and I study mainly the agency of Islamic religious associations on the migrant imaginary and the transnational networks of the Senegalese diaspora.
Key words: migration, Islam, transnationalism, pilgrimage, wolof culture, Senegal, diaspora.
Promoteur recherche ULB: Alexander Newell (Directeur LAMC e Associate professor of Anthropology)
- «Le pèlerinage au temps du COVID et la construction du pacte social sénégalais», forthcoming.
- «Napoli, il Senegal e l’islam: un incontro reale?», in Di Nuzzo A., Conversioni all’ombra del Vesuvio. Etnografie transculturali. Una ricerca di antropologia delle società complesse, CISU, 2020, pp. 211-229.
- Il Grand Magal e l’orizzonte mitico muride: deterritorializzazione e nuove pratiche religiose, Civiltà & Religioni, libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni, no.5, pp. 9-24 (2019).
- Les étudiantes mourides au Sénégal: une aventure ambiguë. L’uomo. Società Tradizione Sviluppo, Carocci editore, no.2/2018, pp. 35-55.
- Il franco CFA: una moneta per un continente senza storia?, Voci. Rivista Annuale di Scienze Umane, Luigi Pellegrini Editore, Anno XV, 2018, pp. 306-326.