Davide Orsini

Davide Orsini holds a PhD in anthropology and history from the University of Michigan. He is an anthropologist and historian of science and technology studying the social, political, and ecological implications of nuclear power applications after WWII. Davide joins the Rachel Carson Center as a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow. For the next two years he will work on a comparative research project on the history and socio-ecological implications of nuclear power plant decommissioning, titled “Half-lives/Afterlives: Labor, Technology, Nature, and the Nuclear Decommissioning Business (NUCLEARDECOM).” Before joining the Rachel Carson Center, Davide was an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University (USA), where he taught STS courses.