Caterina Di Fazio

Caterina Di Fazio, Ph.D. (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) is a philosopher and co-founder of the transatlantic consortium Agora Europe, member of the United Nations Network on Migration, together with Etienne Balibar. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) within the frame of ERC-funded project OSPAPIK (“Ocean and Space Pollution, Artistic Practices and Indigenous Knowledges”).

Previously, she was a visiting scholar at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Remarque Fellow at New York University with the project “Mobility and Borders”, and a postdoc at Radboud University on “Migrant Inclusion and Wellbeing”, as well as at Maastricht University Studio Europa on “Identity, Heritage and the Citizens’ Perspective”. She also held several visiting scholar appointments at Columbia University, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, the University of Oxford, and a fellowship at the International Organization for Migration.

Her research focuses on the phenomenon of human mobility, ocean expeditions, and maritime routes, in relation to indigenous knowledge and plastic pollution. Her first book is Acqua come frontiera. Politiche per una nuova cultura della mobilità umana (Feltrinelli 2022).