Martina Biondi is an historian specializing in North Africa and the Middle East. She is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Maryland, working on the project ‘HICAMA – History of Care in the Maghreb: Infectious Diseases, Healthcare Infrastructures, and International Aid (1956-1999)’. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History at Utrecht University, contributing to the project ‘The Great Game of Pandemics: Sanitary Internationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, 1792-1942’ (PI Ozan Ozavci).

Her research interests include the history of public health and gender history in and beyond North Africa. Dr. Biondi has served as an Adjunct Professor in History and Institutions of Islamic Countries at the University of Macerata. She earned her PhD in African History from the University of Perugia (supervisor Anna Baldinetti) and was a visiting scholar in the Histoire et Civilisation department at the University of Casablanca.

In 2022, she was awarded the Anna Vanzan Prize by the Italian Society of Women Historians. Her first monograph, ‘The Moroccan Years of Lead: Female Activism, the Left, and Memory (1965-2005)’, is forthcoming.