Grazia De Michele is a historian with a keen interest in the history of racism, education, social movements, medicine, and science. She obtained her first PhD from the University of Reading (UK) in 2013. Recently, she successfully completed her second PhD at the University of Genoa (Italy) with a thesis focused on the history of breast cancer in the United States between 1990 and 2010, examining it through the perspective of the grassroots organization Breast Cancer Action.

Her first book, titled "Anti-Southern Racism and Education in Post-War Italy," was published by Routledge in 2023. De Michele is a member of the Centre for the History of Racism and Anti-Racism in Modern Italy (CENTRA). In her role as a research fellow at SICSA, she will be conducting research on a project entitled "'The deadly Jewish gene': Breast cancer and antisemitism in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century."