Giulia joined King's in September 2023. An interdisciplinary scholar, she has ten years of experience working as researcher, consultant, architect and urban designer for international, national, and grassroots organisations in the USA, Colombia, Benin, Italy and the UK.

Giulia’s research is concerned with critical questions of spatial justice, global human movement, borders, race and intersectionality, home and place in conditions of displacement, liminal spaces and everyday urbanisms, with particular attention to extensive spatial, social, and cultural connections among cities of the so-called global South.

After training and working as architect and urban designer in Venice, Sheffield, Chicago and New York City, Giulia pursued a PhD in Urban Studies at 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.

She has been invited as Guest Lecturer in the UK and abroad, including: Cambridge, UCL, Sheffield, UC Santa Barbara, Venice, ETH Zurich, Basel, and Externado Colombia. During 2018 and 2019 she was Visiting Scholar at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, AHRC, Kettle’s Yard, and Society of Latin American Studies, among others. 

Research

• Spatial justice;
• Race, space, place;
• Human mobility, displacement, and transitory inhabitation;
• Borders, margins, and liminal spaces;
• Spatial agency;
• Digital urban infrastructures;
• Ethnography, storytelling, and everyday urbanisms;
• Critical Theory Coloniality, Decoloniality.

Giulia's research is located at the intersection of urban, social and cultural processes, with a focus on geographies of power, inequality, movement, spatial agency, and everydayness. Her research so far has focussed on Latin America, Europe and the Mediterranean. Alongside her academic work, Giulia collaborates with academic collectives, and with grassroots and social organisations, on projects related to spatial justice, displacement, and anti-racism.

PhD Supervision

Giulia welcomes PhD proposals in any of the thematic areas listed above.

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