Vanessa Grotti

Dr. Vanessa Grotti is a Part Time Professor & Director at European University Institute.
She is a social and medical anthropologist interested in the study of kinship, personhood and reproduction, especially in contexts of social change and crisis.
Her primary field of expertise is South America, where she have been working for the past 12 years.
She have also been conducting fieldwork in Europe and West Africa since 2007.
She recently joined the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies as Part-time Professor to lead a project funded by an ERC Starting Grant and entitled 'Intimate Encounters in EU Borderlands: Migrant Maternity, Sovereignty and the Politics of Care on Europe's Periphery'-EU BORDER CARE (2015-2020).
Dr. Grotti have held research and teaching positions at the Collège de France, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Oxford University.
She was awarded her PhD in Cambridge in 2007.