Vanessa Grotti

I am a social and medical anthropologist, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Dep. of Cultural Heritage (Unibo). I have published on medicine & colonialism, human-nonhuman relations, kinship & gender, personhood, animism & material culture, and migration. My research centres around kinship & reproduction, with a particular focus on relations and encounters of care, within medical institutions and beyond. I have studied these processes in Amazonia, by documenting first contacts and medical missions in Suriname. I have also studied relations of care in hospitals & NGO clinics in the Mediterranean & Overseas France. I was PI of an ERC-funded project, EU Border Care (2015-21), which examined migration, maternity care & reproductive health in EU borderlands. I was co-investigator on a project which studied migrant death, mourning & memorialisation in the Mediterranean & Adriatic, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2018-21). My new research project examines human-nonhuman cohabitation and reproduction in the increasingly feral coastal landscape of the Po Delta (Adriatic).

EU Border Care Project

Webcomic 'Expecting'

Graphic Novel 'Chez toi'