Email: b.zocchi@qmul.ac.uk 
Research Topic: Frontiers of Immobility - Illegalised Migration, Violence and Coloniality at the Margins of Europe
Supervisors: Prof Engin Isin, and Dr Rachel Humphris
Research Interests: Postcolonialism, coloniality, critical mobility, illegalised migration, othering discourses and practices in Europe
Education/Professional Qualifications:
- BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics - LUISS Guido Carli University 2013-2016
- MPhil International Relations – DPIR- University of Oxford 2016-2018
- Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar – Mobile People: Mobility as a Way of Life 2019-2022
Work Experience:
- Research Collaborator- ‘Memory of Mobility, Mobility of Memory’, (2019) - Research project based at CES University of Coimbra
- Junior Researcher –ILIESI (Istituto Per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee) (2019)
- Research Associate – CIRSFID. Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (2018)
- Teaching Assistant – Department of Political Science, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (2018)
Publications:
- Zocchi, B. ‘Necropolitica’ in ‘Lessico della Crisi e del Possibile. Cento Lemmi per Praticare il Presente’ (2019) edited by Dubosc, E. SEB27, Torino
- Zocchi, B. (2019) ‘Italian Colonialism in the Making of National Consciousness: Representations of African Natives’, "Storicamente", 15 (2019), no. 7. DOI: 10.12977/stor754
Twitter: @ZocchiBenedetta
