Member Profiles

Giulia is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, where her research in urban studies —co-funded by the AHRC-DTP and King’s College— explores the relation between race and space under regimes of neoliberal urbanism in Bogotá, with a focus on the material and cultural formation of racialized forms of spatial injustice. During 2018, she is also Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Afro-descendant Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá.
In Cambridge, Giulia has co-founded the multi-departmental Urbanism in the Global South working group, and the Urban Network at King's College; she also convened the Cambridge City Seminar, the Martin Centre Seminar Series, the international conference "Two Mayors, Two Cities: Urban Transformation in Cali and Medellín", and the International Women's Day symposium at King's College, among others.
She has served as supervisor for Architecture and Geography at the University of Cambridge, as invited reviewer at the University of Cambridge and at UCL, and as invited lecturer at the University of Sheffield, the Universidad Externado in Bogotá, and the University of Cambridge.
Giulia trained as architect and urban designer, and her work experience includes the New York City Department of City Planning and the NGO sector in the Republic of Benin.