Gloria Frisone is a research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia. She has been Adjunct Professor in Cultural and Medical Anthropology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Udine, and Milan for the last two years. From 2020 to 2021, she was a post-doctoral researcher for the "Fondation Croix-Rouge Française," where she worked on social and medical inequalities for North African and Sub-Saharan African elderly living in Seine-Saint-Denis (France). In September 2019, she obtained her Ph.D. in social anthropology at EHESS in Paris. Her ethnographical research concerns the contemporary definition of aging and dementia in diagnostic and common sense. From 2015, she also carried out ethnographical research in psychiatric settings about refugees' illnesses and cultural meanings of psychological disorders. She is author of national and international articles (Trusting the permanence of self for people for Alzheimer’s disease, Journal of British Academy, 11 (s6), pp. 103-117 - L’isolement des immigrés vieillissants en Seine-Saint-Denis, Fondation Croix-Rouge française, Les Papiers de la Fondation, n° 43, 2022 - La Malattia Di Alzheimer in Prospettiva Tridimensionale: Alterazione Sociale, Patologia Clinica e Malessere Intersoggettivo, Antropologia, v. 9, n. 1, 2022, pp. 53-73 - Guardar-si alla finestra, Una terapia narrativo-autobiografica per la stimolazione cognitiva di una paziente Alzheimer, AM, Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Medica, n. 43-46). She translated the first monograph of the French anthropologist Richard Rechtman (Le viventi, Milano, Ledizioni, 2023), and edited the introducing assay (Forme di vita, echi di morte: per un'etnografia delle soggettività sopravvissute al genicidio cambogiano, in Le viventi, Milano, Ledizioni, 2023).