Manuella Ciotti

Manuela Ciotti is Professor of the Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Global South at the University of Vienna, where she is also the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘The anthropology of the future: an art world perspective’ (ANTHROFUTURE). Before joining the University of Vienna in 2020, she was Associate Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University. In addition, she has held fellowships at several leading institutions.

Ciotti obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2002. She has conducted many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research across a range of sites, both physical and digital, in several countries including India, the USA, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Italy among others. Her research addresses questions of inequality, social justice, representation and cultural production in the Global South.