Elena Fusar Poli is an anthropologist and research collaborator at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, where she is engaged in the “SAFWA – Best Integrated Pest Management for Safe Water” project. In 2023, she earned her Ph.D. in “Philosophy and Human Sciences” from the University of Milan with a thesis in anthropology. She has been involved in teaching and mentoring at the University of Milan (courses in Cultural Anthropology and Social Sciences for Globalization) and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart—Brescia (courses in Nursing Sciences). She is a member of the Departmental Laboratory UNIMI “FUEL – Feminist and Queer Philosophy”. In 2017, she graduated with honors from the University of Milan with a thesis in Cultural Anthropology, and in 2015, she obtained a three-year degree in Political Philosophy. Specific research topics include anthropology of development, within development, and beyond development; rural development and sustainability of agricultural productions; medical anthropology; and anthropology of Latin America (focus: Mexican anthropology).
