Antonio Maria Pusceddu is a senior researcher at the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), University Institute of Lisbon. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Siena. Before moving to Portugal, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cagliari and the University of Barcelona, where he's still affiliated with the Reciprocity Study Group. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Greece, Albania, Italy, and most recently in Portugal, investigating issues of power and inequality through the lenses of borders, ethnicity, crisis, and social reproduction. His current research project focuses on popular ecologies and socio-environmental change in industrial regions of Southern Europe. His main research interests include value theory, social reproduction, and political ecology. He's currently a Fellow of the Italian Academy Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.