About
Costanza Torre is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa and a Research Fellow at the Anthropology and Sociology Department at SOAS, in the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA). She holds a BA and MSc in Clinical Psychology from the University of Turin, and a PhD in International Development from the LSE. She is also an Affiliate Researcher at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester.
Since 2015, Costanza has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northern Uganda, alongside additional research in South Sudan, Liberia, Italy, and France. Her work combines ethnographic and interdisciplinary approaches to study the socio-political dimensions of medical and mental health interventions in crisis settings. She has explored the entanglements between medical technologies and global migration regimes, and how food insecurity, chronic poverty, and structural inequalities shape experiences of distress and care. Her findings have informed the work of international organisations including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNHCR, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)