Emily Pierini is Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Anthropology at Sapienza University of Rome, visiting Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and Affiliate of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. She is the co-founder and coordinator of HEAL-Network for the Ethnography of Healing. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bristol. Her Marie Curie project THETRANCE-Transnational Healing Therapeutic Trajectories in Spiritual Trance, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 895395, has investigated therapeutic spiritual trance in a transnational perspective, analysing how people learn and narrate about spiritual trance, with what kinds of consistencies and differences across cultures, and how trance-based healing practices may be relevant for therapeutic purposes. She has conducted ethnographic research in the temples of the Vale do Amanhecer (Brazil and Europe), in Afro-Brazilian religions (Brazil), and on Goddess Spirituality (UK and Italy). She is the author of the book Jaguars of the Dawn Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer (2020, Berghahn), and several chapters and journal articles. Emily’s research interests include spirit mediumship and possession, embodied knowledge, healing, religious experience and learning, body and self, emotions and senses, and transnational religions.