Altea Pericoli

Altea Pericoli is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2025–2028) jointly affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and the Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University. From 2024 to 2025, she held a postdoctoral position in geopolitics and regional cooperation at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. Her research focuses on the history of foreign aid provided by the Gulf States and on the values and norms of Islamic Humanitarianism. In 2023, she was awarded the Early Career Development Scholarship by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies to develop her PhD dissertation into a monograph.