Elena Vezzadini is a research fellow at the French National Institute for Scientific Research, affilitated to the Institut des Mondes Africains, Paris. Trained in Bergen, Norway, she is specialized on the contemporary history of Sudan, from a perspective of social history.
She has been working on political mobilizations and nationalism in colonial Sudan after the First World War, and lately on the history of trade unions, women organizations and the press during the years of independence (1950s and 1960s).
