Matilde Flamigni

Matilde Flamigni is a post doc researcher of the FIS Advanced Grant The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slavery. A Forgotten History (BlackItaly). She is an anthropologist and social historian specializing in imperial history, slavery and abolition, colonialism and colonial societies, and mobility in the 19th-century Caribbean. She successfully completed her Ph.D. in Global History and Governance with highest honors in June 2024 at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and the University of Naples Federico II. Meanwhile, she obtained a fellowship at the University of Turin, where she studied the life and Latin American expeditions of the Italian geographer Agostino Codazzi. Matilde is also the coordinator of the “Free and Unfree Labor” working group of the Italian Society for Labor History (SISLav). She is currently working on a monograph based on her thesis, titled Vulnerable Freedom(s). Caribbean Connections and Imperial Borders during Abolition, Routledge (forthcoming 2026).