Who are we? – Introduction to the project

How was the project Entangled food histories born?

If we have to say the truth, the project was born on a train, Giacomo and Sofia were going on a small trip on Saturday, and she asked him if he had already read the call for organization of summer or winter school sent the day before. And he answered yes, but they agreed that it would be too complicated to participate. After ten silent minutes, he said that he had a topic in mind. And from that moment, the project started.

Who we are?

We are four PhD students in history at the University of Pavia. We came from four different universities and have four completely different approaches and topics of research.

Sofia Miola is a PhD student in European history with a specific interest in political and cultural history. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Trieste and a master’s degree from the University of Pisa.

Giacomo Casucci is a Phd student in Ancient Near East Archeology at the University of Pavia. He has studied at the University of Florence and had several experiences in excavations in Turkey and Iraq. His research project deals with the Anatolian foodways of the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE.

Sara Zanotta is a PhD student in Asian History at the University of Pavia. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Milan and has previously done research internships at Istituto Affari Internazionali, Villa Vigoni and CESPI. Her research project deals with the transborder connections of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.

Pietro Repishti is a PhD student in African History at the University of Pavia, where he works on Urban history and vodu cults among the communities of Porto-Novo (Benin). He studied History at the University of Milan and University of Paris IV “Sorbonne”, and completed his Master in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences at the University of Milan Bicocca. Since 2019 he has been carrying out field research in Southern Benin.