Our project will reassess the history of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa by re-signifying the vast collections of objects, archival documents and photographs amassed by geographer and explorer Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti (1855-1926) and tracing th

The project follows literary rivers across texts from France and the Americas, thinking about those rivers as tributaries to a wider oceanic history.

This new project explores the trajectories of different forms of infantile weakness in the Spanish Caribbean from the final two decades of the nineteenth century to the 1960s, namely malnutrition, malaria, neonatal infirmity, and poliomyelitis.