Irene Fattacciu

I am a researcher in the FIS Advanced Grant BlackItaly at the Italian-German Historical Institute, Bruno Kessler Foundation. My work focuses on global and social history, with attention to the circulation of colonial goods, economic intermediation between the Atlantic and Europe, slavery, and racial categories. I hold a PhD in History and Civilization (EUI, 2011) and one in Sociology (University of Turin, 2019). Within BlackItaly, I study the participation of Italian merchants, bankers, and institutions in the eighteenth-century slave economy, reconstructing financial, commercial, and religious networks and the reinvestment of profits in the peninsula. In parallel, I have worked on inequality, empowerment, and qualitative/participatory methodologies in Europe, Latin America, and the MENA region, as a senior researcher at ARCO (Action Research for Co-Development). I also teach Food Cultures of Latin America at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.