Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, ODID
Dr Angela Giattino is a sociocultural anthropologist specialising in epistemology, higher education, ethnicity and race, youth, sustainability, health, and migration, with a longstanding expertise on Latin America, particularly urban Peruvian Amazonia, alongside the Mediterranean, primarily southern Italy. Her work has appeared in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and BMJ Global Health.
Dr Giattino holds a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has also trained in Geography and History in Italy and the US. She has held research and teaching positions at the University of Cambridge, University College London (UCL), San Francisco State University, University of Catania, and the LSE —where she was awarded a Highly Commended Class Teacher Award.
Dr Giattino is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. In addition to the Leverhulme Trust, Dr Giattino's research has been funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the LSE Department of Anthropology, the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Laura Bassi Foundation, and the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences division (AHSS) at the University of Cambridge.
Publications
Giattino, A., 2026, ‘Intercultural Expectations and Global Ambitions: The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Indigenous Amazonian Adolescence’ (Special Issue: The Anthropology of Adolescence.) The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 31(S2): 31-49.
Montag, D., Giattino, A. et al. 2021. ‘Healthcare of Indigenous Amazonian Peoples in response to COVID-19: Marginality, discrimination and revaluation of ancestral knowledge in Ucayali, Peru.’ BMJ Global Health. 6(1):e004479.
