I'm a sociologist who works in church archives. My subject is confession—and its paperwork—in eighteenth-century Italy.

After Trent, a priest couldn't simply hear confessions. He had to be examined, licensed, and assigned to a parish. Some were denied a license; others had theirs revoked. The seal meant the Church could never review the transaction it cared most about, so it vetted the man instead. What an institution does when its core business is opaque to it by design: that’s the problem I keep working on.

I am also working on public arts funding and creative autonomy, and on what Italian microhistory might offer to historical and cultural sociology.

PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Padova, Associate Managing Editor at Sociologica. My work has appeared in the British Journal of Sociology and Church History, has been supported by the U.S.–Italy Fulbright Commission, and received the BJS Early Career Prize.

When I’m not in the archive, I’m chasing the perfect instant noodle or listening to punk rock (too loud).