I am an anthropological linguist and project manager with extensive experience conducting fieldwork and leading international, multicultural research teams in Global South contexts. I'm passionate about exploring how cultural and linguistic diversity emerge, what these patterns reveal about human history, and how research can be put directly at the service of the communities it studies.

Since 2025, I have been Principal Investigator of an ELDP-funded language documentation project (€286,790) in the UNHCR refugee camp of Minawao, northern Cameroon — coordinating a 15-person, multi-ethnic field team, much of it managed remotely given restricted field access. To make research immediately useful to the community it concerns, I designed and built a network of offline Internet-in-a-Box servers giving camp residents free access to recordings of their own endangered languages — work that earned the Wikimania 2026 Content Quality Poster Award.

My research has been published in top international peer-reviewed journals, including the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Language, the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and the International Journal of Bilingualism. Work with direct social impact has also been featured in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

I held Postdoctoral positions at the University at Buffalo and the University of Florence, where I played a key role in securing several major research grants from the U.S. NSF and the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP). I currently work as a Research Associate at the University of Naples "L'Orientale".

I hold a BA/MA in Prehistoric Archaeology and Comparative Linguistics, as well as a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Florence.