Director
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Paola Alessandra Rebughini
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University of Milan |
Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication
PhD in Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She worked as researcher in Paris and at the University of Warwick as Marie Curie fellow before joining the University of Milan. She is member of the Editorial board of Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Il Mulino and Violence, Sage.
Main research interests:
Social theory and cultural theory; globalization; pluralism and cultural difference; civic participation, activism and agency in everyday life.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/paola-rebughini
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Deputy-Director
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Manuela Naldini
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NASP Staff
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Simone Muraca
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University of Milan |
University of Milan
AIROLDI Massimo
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Massimo Airoldi
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Assistant Professor of Cultural Sociology
Massimo Airoldi holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Milan. From 2018 to 2021 he has worked as Assistant Professor at emlyon business school. He is the author of "Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms" (Polity), and member of the editorial board of the journal Poetics.
Main research interests:
Computational methods; cultural sociology; critical algorithm studies; sociology of AI; consumer culture; cultural taste.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/massimo-airoldi
Personal web page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimo-Airoldi
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AMBROSINI Maurizio
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Maurizio Ambrosini
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ANDERSON Christopher William
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Christopher William Anderson
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Professor of Cultural Sociology
He holds a PhD from Columbia University and worked at the University of Leeds before Joining the University of Milan. He is the Associate Editor of Sociologica and the International Journal of Press/Politics.
Main research interests:
Sociology of knowledge; cultural production; journalism studies; political communication; media history.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/christopher-anderson
Personal web page: http://cwanderson.org
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BARISIONE Mauro
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Mauro Barisione
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BIOLCATI RINALDI Ferruccio
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Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi
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Professor of Sociology
Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi is co-founder of spsTREND, a survey research lab on social and political change. He is Italian PI for the European Values Study (EVS) and the World Values Survey (WVS), he is also member of the Scientific Committees of both EVS and WVS.
Main research interests:
Value change; religious change; social and political attitudes; survey research.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/ferruccio-biolcati
Personal web page: https://sites.unimi.it/biolcati/ |
BONI Federico
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Federico Boni
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BONIZZONI Paola
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Paola Bonizzoni
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CECCOBELLI Diego
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Diego Ceccobelli
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CELA Eralba
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Eralba Cela
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Associate Professor of social statistics and population dynamics
Her work has involved a range of themes situated within population studies with a focus on migration and ageing. She is Board member of the Standing Committee “Migrant Transnationalism” and “Older Migrants” within the European Network of Excellence on International Migration, Integration, Social Cohesion and Exclusion (IMISCOE).
Main research interests:
Migration from the perspective of both sending and receiving countries; international retirement migration; ageing, health, wellbeing.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/eralba-cela
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CINALLI Manlio
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Manlio Cinalli
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Professor of Sociology
He has published widely on citizenship and political integration for international publisher and peer-reviewed journals in English, French, German and Italian. He is Director of a Master Programme in “Global Politics and Society” at the University of Milan. He has an extensive experience in designing new programmes of teaching.
Main research interests:
Citizenship; political integration; Muslims; relational structures; cultural cleavages; migration.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/manlio-cinalli
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COLOMBO Enzo
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Enzo Colombo
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Professor of Cultural Sociology
He holds a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in Anthropologie Sociale et Ethnologie from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris and a PhD in Sociology from the Università degli Studi di Milano. Member of the Editorial Board of the University of Milano University Press (MilanUP).
Main research interests:
Everyday multiculturalism; active citizenship; racism; intersectionality; cultural aspects of the globalisation process; young adults’ identification and civic participation; individualization; biopolitics and neoliberal injunction to develop an entrepreneurial self; qualitative methodology (ethnography, in-depth interview, focus group).
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/enzo-colombo
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DOTTI SANI Giulia Maria
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Giulia Maria Dotti Sani
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Assistant Professor of General Sociology
Giulia Dotti Sani has a PhD in Sociology and Social Research. She mostly works with large individual and household surveys, both longitudinal and cross-sectional (e.g. EU-SILC, ESS, ISTAT Household Survey) and teaches quantitative methods at various levels.
Main research interests:
Sociology of the family; female employment and social stratification; public opinion; political participation; comparative approaches.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/giulia-dottisani
Personal web page: https://giuliadottisani.github.io/ |
GANDINI Alessandro
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Alessandro Gandini
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Associate Professor of cultural and media sociology
His research focuses on digital labour, cultures and methods. He is Principal Investigator of the "CRAFTWORK" project, funded by ERC Starting Grants (2020) and Scientific Coordinator of the ALGOCOUNT project, funded by Fondazione Cariplo.
Main research interests:
His research focuses on the critical study of the relationship between digital technology and society, with a peculiar focus on cultures and practices of work, the study of algorithms, digital cultures and methods.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/alessandro-gandini
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GUGLIELMI Simona
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Simona Guglielmi
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Assistant Professor of Sociology
She is a member of the spsTREND Lab (www.spstrend.it) and a local representative of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP- Italy). She is the principal Investigator of the MAYBE project - Moving into Adulthood in uncertain times: Youth Beliefs, future Expectations, and life choices.
Main research interests:
Her main research interests lie in national and European identities, public opinion and value change, political culture and institutional confidence. She has strong expertise in the collection and management of survey data. Methodological and technical skills include comparative studies, survey experiments, and structural equation modelling.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/simona-guglielmi
Personal web page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simona-Guglielmi |
LEONINI Luisa Maria
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Luisa Maria Leonini
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Professor of Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Consumption
She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has been director of the interdiparimental Center GENDERS. She has been editor of Sociology and Il Mulino.
Main research interests:
Sociology of Consumption; digital transformation and youth social conditions; gender.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/luisa-leonini
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MOSCA Lorenzo
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Lorenzo Mosca
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Professor of Sociology of Communication
Before joining the University of Parma, he was an assistant professor at the Roma Tre University, an associate professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore and a full professor at the University of Milan. He is coordinating editor of Social Movement Studies and associate editor of the European Journal of Communication, South European Society & Politics, and Partecipazione e Conflitto.
Main research interests:
Sociology of digital media and political communication; sociology of participatory processes; civil society, political parties and social movements; populism.
Personal web page: https://personale.unipr.it/it/ugovdocenti/person/253142.
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MURGIA Annalisa
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Annalisa Murgia
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Associate Professor of Sociology
She is the PI of the ERC project SHARE (2017-23) and Scientific Coordinator of the research centre GENDERS. Prior to this, she was Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, where she is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow. She is editor of the journals Organization, Studi Organizzativi, Politics, and In-discipline.
Main research interests:
Her research interests lie in sociological qualitative and ethnographic studies. The lines of research around which her current scientific production is articulated are oriented in three main directions: (i) the role of subjectivity in shaping individual biographies, paying specific attention to precarious workers; (ii) emerging forms of workers' organising; (iii) the social construction of gender differences in organisations.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/annalisa-murgia
Personal web page: https://ercshare.unimi.it/ |
NARDELLA Carlo
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Carlo Nardella
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Associate Professor of Sociology
His research is concerned with cultural change, with particular attention to the interrelationships between religion and marketing, transformations in the use of religious symbols, and the relationship between Catholicism and the media. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication (2010), Visiting Researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Media, Communication, and Information (2017 and 2018), and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta's Department of Media and Technology Studies (2025). Since October 2023, he has been the principal investigator for a research project, entitled "Religion in Public: Forms and Dynamics of Religious Publicization in Italy," funded by Italy's Ministry of University.
Main research interests:
Marketing and consumer approaches to religions' financial gain; use of religious symbols in commercial advertising; popular religiosity and related institutional responses; repurposing of empty churches into commercial spaces.
Personal web pages: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/carlo-nardella
Personal web pages: https://sites.unimi.it/carlonardella/es: |
SARTI Simone
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Simone Sarti
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Associate Professor of General Sociology
Main research interests:
Social inequalities; health inequalities; social stratification; quantitative methods; socio-cultural evolution.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/simone-sarti
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SPLENDORE Sergio
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Sergio Splendore
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Associate Professor of Media and Politics
Sergio Splendore (PhD) his fields of expertise are journalism and political communication. He is member of the Worlds of Journalism study (www.worldsofjournalism.org) and Nepocs (The Network of European Political Communication Scholars). He published monographs and journal articles on the new forms of journalism and topics related to political communication.
Main research interests:
Journalism; political communication.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/sergio-splendore
Personal web page: www.sergio.splendore.it |
University of Turin
BOSISIO Roberta
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Roberta Bosisio
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BORGNA Camilla
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Camilla Borgna
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Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD from the University of Milan. Postdoc at the WZB, Berlin (2014-2018) and assistant professor at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin (2018-2022). Affiliate of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and fellow of the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research. Deputy PI of the 2022-PRIN-PNRR 'The Perpetual Refugee Crisis in Italy and Beyond'.
Main research interests:
Social stratification; sociology of education; migration.
Personal web page: https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?camilla.borgna#tab-profilo |
CARRIERO Renzo
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Renzo Carriero
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CONTINI Dalit
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Dalit Contini
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Educational inequalities, educational choices and role of schooling systems
Impact evaluation of social policies
Higher education
Poverty and social exclusion
Longitudinal data modeling
Categorical data modeling
DONATIELLO Davide
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Davide Donatiello
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FERRERO CAMOLETTO Raffaella
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Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto
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FILANDRI Marianna Azzurra
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Marianna Azzurra Filandri
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Associate Professor of Economic Sociology
Marianna Filandri teaches Data Analysis for Applied Research and Policy Evaluation (MA) and Sociology of Economic and Social Inequalities (BA).
Main research interests:
Social inequality; housing inequality; youth labor market early career; in-work poverty, and subjective poverty.
Personal web page: https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=mfilandr#tab-profilo
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GARIGLIO Luigi
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Luigi Gariglio
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GENOVA Carlo
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Carlo Genova
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Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology
He holds a PhD in Comparative Social Research from the University of Turin, where he teaches Sociology of culture and Lifestyles and urban spaces. He is member “Journal of Youth Studies”, “Sustainability”, “Religioni e società”; he has been Coordinator of the RN30 Youth and Generation of the European Sociological Association.
Main research interests:
Main fields of empirical research: youth cultures in urban space; youth political activism; food consumption and sustainability. Main theoretical interests: lifestyles and subcultures; social analysis of space and material culture; interpretative sociology.
Personal web page: https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=cgenova#tab-profilo
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GOGLIO Valentina
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Valentina Goglio
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MUSUMECI Rosy
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Rosy Musumeci
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Assistant Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes
She teaches Sociology of Family, Cultures, Social Policies and Services at the University of Turin. She is currently engaged in the ‘GEA-Gendering Academia’ project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and University, and coordinator (with Manuela Naldini) of WP2’s qualitative research in the H2020 MINDtheGEPs project (PI Cristina Solera).
Main research interests:
Her main research interests are work-life balance, working careers, job insecurity, cultures, social policies and services, and – more recently – gender imbalances at university. The social categories she mainly dealts with are two: young people and young adults and couples/families with children. Her main analytical lenses: comparative, gender and life course approaches. The research methodologies she mainly uses: qualitative, longitudinal qualitative, comparative qualitative.
Personal web page: https://www.socialsciences-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=rmusumec#tab-profilo
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SEMI Giovanni
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Giovanni Semi
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University of Turin |
Professor of Urban Sociology
He holds a PhD in Sociology at the University of Torino and Anthropology at the EHESS-Paris (2004). He has been visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, the GC-CUNY, the École d’Urbanisme de Paris, the University of Paris 7 and the EHESS-Paris. He coordinated SOMET between 2020 and 2023.
Main research interests:
Gentrification and the middle class; urban ethnography; mobility studies.
Personal web page: https://www.polito.it/personale?p=giovanni.semi
Personal web page: https://unito.academia.edu/GiovanniSemi |
SOLERA Cristina
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Cristina Solera
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Other Italian Universitites
BERTONE Chiara (University of Piemonte Orientale)
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Chiara Bertone
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BRUNI Enrico Attila (University of Trento)
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Enrico Attila Bruni
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Associate Professor of Sociology of Organization
Enrico Attila Bruni holds a Phd in Sociology and Social Research, and currently teaches Sociology of Organizations and Sociology of Technological Phenomena at the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento.
Main research interests:
His research interests regard the intersection of technological phenomena, organizing processes and work practices.
Personal web page: https://webapps.unitn.it/du/it/Persona/PER0003310/Curriculum
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CALIANDRO Alessandro (University of Pavia)
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Alessandro Caliandro
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Associate Professor of Sociology of Cutlute and Communication
Alessandro Caliandro (PhD in Sociology, University of Milano) is employed by the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Pavia), where he teaches Digital Culture & Communication, Digital Journalism, and Digital Consumer Culture. He is also Director of the ‘Digital Methods For Critical Consumer Studies’ Summer School.
Main research interests:
His research focuses on digital methods, digital consumer culture, platformization of culture, ageing and digital media.
Personal web page: https://scienzepolitiche.unipv.it/persone/prof-alessandro-caliandro/
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GHIGI Rossella (University of Bologna)
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Rossella Ghigi
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Associate Professor of Sociology
She holds a PhD from the University of Trento. She's the Director of the Center Studies on Gender and Education (CSGE) at the University of Bologna. She's part of the Editorial Boards of the journals: Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, il Mulino and Sociologica.
Main research interests:
Gender Studies in Education; Sociology of the Body; Gender Inequality and Intersectionality.
Personal web page: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/rossella.ghigi/en
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PERROTTA Domenico Claudio (University of Bergamo)
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Domenico Claudio Perrotta
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Associate Professor of Sociology of Economic and Labour Processes
PhD in Sociology (University of Padova, 2007); since 2012 he has been working at the University of Bergamo. Member of the Editorial Board of the Italian journal "Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa / Ethnography and Qualitative Research"; formerly co-editor-in-chief of the same journal (2012-2019).
Main research interests:
Labour and migration processes; agri-food systems; ethnography and qualitative research; workplace ethnography; labour environmental studies.
Personal web page: https://didattica-rubrica.unibg.it/ugov/person/3187
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POGGIO Barbara (University of Trento)
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Barbara Poggio
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Professor of Sociology of Work / Sociology of Organisation / Gender studies.
Barbara Poggio holds a PhD from the University of Trento. She coordinated several international projects on gender, work and organisations. She is currently Vice Rector for Equality and Diversity of the University of Trento. She is member of the editorial board of several Italian and international sociological journals.
Main research interests:
Gender and work; gender and organisation; gender and academia; work-life balance.
Personal web page: https://webapps.unitn.it/du/it/Persona/PER0003391/Curriculum
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PRATSCHKE Jonathan (University of Napoli Federico II)
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Jonathan Pratschke
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Professor of Economic Sociology
An Irish citizen, Jonathan completed his PhD at Trinity College Dublin and has participated in dozens of international research projects. He currently works at the Department of Social Science, University of Naples "Federico II" and has published on a wide range of themes.
Main research interests:
Urban inequalities; socio-spatial models; electoral behaviour; white-collar labour processes; access to public services; educational inequalities.
Personal web page: https://www.docenti.unina.it/jonathan.pratschke
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SARTORI Laura (University of Bologna)
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Laura Sartori
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Professor of Sociology
BA (University of Bologna), MA (University of Manchester), PhD (European University institute). She has previously taught at UEA (Norwich, UK) and the University of MIlan (I). She has been vising fellow at UNE (AU), Birkbeck (UK) CalTech (USA). Presently she is co-editor of the Journal "European Journal of Sociology".
Main research interests:
Consumer culture; politics of consumption; consumption and sustainability; cultural and social theory; gender studies; sociology of the body; sociology of leisure and sport; food studies; visual culture; ethnography.
Personal web page: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/roberta.sassatelli/en
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SASSATELLI Roberta (University of Bologna)
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Roberta Sassatelli
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Professor of Sociology
BA (University of Bologna), MA (University of Manchester), PhD (European University institute). She has previously taught at UEA (Norwich, UK) and the University of MIlan (I). She has been vising fellow at UNE (AU), Birkbeck (UK) CalTech (USA). Presently she is co-editor of the Journal "European Journal of Sociology".
Main research interests:
Consumer culture, politics of consumption, consumption and sustainability, cultural and social theory, gender studies, sociology of the body, sociology of leisure and sport, food studies, visual culture, ethnography.
Personal web page: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/roberta.sassatelli/en
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TUORTO Dario (University of Bologna)
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Dario Tuorto
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Professor of Political Sociology
Main research interests:
Political and social participation; inequalities, discrimination in the workplace; social and geographical mobility; political parties, extremism; young people and transition to adulthood; social policies.
Personal web page: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/dario.tuorto/en
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