Dr. Deborah Nadal holds a BA in Languages, Cultures, and Institutions of Eurasian and Mediterranean Countries with specialization in Hindi and Urdu (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), a MA in Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, and Ethnolinguistics (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy), and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology (University of Verona, Italy). In 2016, she was awarded the Hunt Post-Doctoral Fellowship for anthropological research from the Wenner Gren Foundation, New York, thanks to which she could work on the publication of her first book. In 2017, she secured a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship offered by the European Commission to support her post-doctoral research on dog-mediated rabies in rural India. Her research is based at the University of Glasgow, but she is currently working at the UW Center for One Health Research as a visiting scientist.