The REDMIX Team

Full professor of African History with an interdisciplinary training in social history, anthropology, and population studies. Her work examines gender, labour, mobility, and mixedness in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea in the 19th and 20th centuries.

MA in Visual and Media Anthropology. His research focuses on the third mission, public engagement, and citizen science needs. He also promotes the project outside academia, expands its outreach, and creates podcasts and visual entries for the archive.

PhD in History, History of the Art and Archaeology, with a background as architect and urbanist. He explores urban hybridity through the spatial anchoring of diasporas and minorities in Ottoman cities. He has held fellowships in Rome, Brussels, and Lund.

PhD in Digital Humanities, with a background as archivist and conservation scientist. Her research focuses on digital archives, semantic ontologies, and cultural heritage preservation. She has worked with institutions like CNR-IMATI and Vatican Museums.

PhD in Archival Studies. In recent years, he has gained experience designing guides and surveys of archives across broad areas. He has worked with several State Archives in Italy as well as ICAR (Central Institute for Archives).

PhD in History, with a focus on 19th- and 20th- century Iran and global history. Her research delves into the mobility, encounters and mixing between Iranians, mostly but not exclusively ethnically Persians, and the Red Sea peoples.

MA in History and Oriental Studies. He has carried out historical research for various italian private and public institutions. His main research interest concerns in the relationship between the local and the global from a historical perspective.

Graduated in Conservation and Restoration, she gained over ten years of experience in cultural heritage preservation projects. Since 2024, she has been working as a project manager in the administrative management of European projects at the University of Turin.

Professor of History of the Middle East and the Islamic world, her research focuses on religious change in the Western Indian Ocean in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as mapping and digitising of primary Arabic textual material.

Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, his research is focused on diaspora studies, state–society relations, colonialism, religion (with a focus on Islam and Orthodox Christianity), as well as issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and class in Africa.

Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, her research expertise lies in the field of gender and migration with particular attention for (migrant) women’s paid work in Yemen and Ethiopia.

Professor of African and Islamic history at Western Washington University, his research is focused on Muslim societies in Northeast Africa and the Red Sea. He is General Editor of Northeast African Studies and author of numerous articles and book chapters.

Full professor in Archival Studies, Bibliography and Library Science, she works in Digital Humanities with a special focus on modeling texts and documents in knowledge organization systems in libraries and digital archives.

Professor of African History in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia, his main research interests include Eritrea’s colonial social and economic history, Islam and Italian colonialism, and the history of writing and reading in the Horn of Africa.

Historian specialised in Ottoman socio-economic, legal, and institutional history. Formerly a researcher for the OttoLegal ERC project, his research involves Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) methodologies to digitize and analyse complex historical manuscripts.

BA in History from the University of Turin, with previous training in physics. His interests lie in Digital Humanities, with a focus on digital libraries and archives in contemporary history.

Ethiopian PhD candidate in History at Addis Ababa University, researcher and lecturer specialised in Ethiopian and African History at Debre Berhan University in Ethiopia. His research areas include sports history, leisure traditions in Ethiopia, and women’s history.

PhD in Institutions and Archives, he worked for many years at the State Archives in Turin. Now is an Associate Professor of Archival Science at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin.

BA in Marketing Management from Bahir Dar University. Based in Addis Ababa, she serves as a research assistant, focusing her work on archival research about music history, mixed-ancestry identities, and cultural heritage across the Horn of Africa.

MA in African and Asian Studies in Italy and MA in Cultural Studies: Cultures, Identities and Nationhood in Morocco. Her main research interests concern mobility, encounters and mixing in North Africa, with a focus on Egypt, during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Yemeni researcher in gender and social history, with fieldwork in Yemen and Africa. Her work examines how gender and society intersect with historical change in cultural and humanitarian contexts.