Giulia is an interdisciplinary scholar with ten years of experience working as social scientist, consultant, architect and urban designer for international, national, and grassroots organisations in the USA, Colombia, Benin, Italy, and the UK.

She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2021), where she was later Junior Research Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Geography (2021-23), Teaching Associate at the Centre for Latin American Studies, and Fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy (2021-).

Her work has appeared on the Journal of Latin American Studies, Dialogues in Human Geography, Identities, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, among others. She regularly gives external talks and guests lectures in the UK and abroad, more recently at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, UCL, UC Santa Barbara, Venice, ETH Zurich, Basel, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and Externado Colombia. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UKRI), Kettle’s Yard, King's College (University of Cambridge), and the Society of Latin American Studies, among others.

Research

• Migration and borders
• Displacement and transitory inhabitation
• Race/racialisation
• Urban margins and liminalities
• Spatial agencies
• Digital urban infrastructures
• Ethnography, storytelling, and everyday urbanisms

Giulia's research is located at the intersection of political, spatial, social, and cultural processes, with a focus on the geographies of power, inequality, movement, agency, and everydayness. In particular, her work explores critical questions around spatial justice, global human movement and migration, race and racisms, (digital) technologies of surveillance and bordering, and how people (re-)make place in conditions of displacement. Alongside her academic work, she collaborates with academic/activist collectives, grassroots groups, and international organisations on projects related to spatial justice, displacement, and anti-racism.

More information about her research projects can be found here.  

PhD Supervision

Giulia is interested in supervising doctoral applicants seeking to research the urban, social and/or cultural geographies of: migration and human movement borders (e.g. bordering practices and infrastructures) (digital) technologies of power (e.g. surveillance; bordering) race/racisms (especially in Latin America and continental Europe).

Teaching

Undergraduate

• 4SSG1014 Geographical Foundations
• 4SSG1016 Geography in Action
• 4SSG1008 Fieldtrip
• 5SSG2063 BA Geography Research Tutorials
• 6SSG3072 Right to the City

Undergraduate/Postgraduate

• 6SSG3076/7SSGN212 Critical Geopolitics

Further details

See Giulia's research profile