Biography

Before coming to Cambridge, I studied Chinese and Mongolian Languages and Cultures at Venice University (Italy), and worked in Outer Mongolia for two years following my graduation. During my stay in Mongolia, I often realised how deeply people's everyday life is conditioned by pervasive mistrust. For my PhD I thus study Mongolian ideas of trust, mistrust, and cooperation, how trust is established, maintained, and broken, how and why trust is so often abused and with what consequences, and what role gender plays in the creation of trust and mistrust. I have just come back from a year of fieldwork in a small rural community of Barga Mongols in Inner Mongolia, China, and will now start to write up.