>>> In 2022, I received the Emma Goldman Award for my research, public engagement and future potential.
A Ph.D. in Political Studies from EHESS Paris, I was a Marie Curie Fellow at the PoliTeSse Research Center at the University of Verona (2013-2015), for which I am currently the scientific officer.
I have specialised in the study of LGBTQI+ movements and politics. On this topics I have published several articles and three books: Le moment politique de l’homosexualité. Mouvements, identités et communautés en France (PUL, Lyon 2014), La fabbrica dell’orgoglio. Una genealogia dei movimenti LGBT (Edizioni ETS 2015) and Politiche dell’orgoglio. Sessualità, soggettività e movimenti sociali (Edizioni ETS, 2015).
More recently, I have conducted research on so-called “anti-gender” movements, the results of which were published in Italian L’ipotesi neocattolica. Politologia dei movimenti anti-gender (Mimesis, 2020); in French L’hypothèse néocatholique. Politiques, mouvements et mobilizations anti-genre en Italie (Éditions de l’ULB, 2023); and in English Anti-Gender Mobilizations, Religion and Politics: An Italian Case Study (Routledge, 2024).
As part of a post-doctoral contract at the University of Verona, I conducted ethnographic research on LGBTI migrants and the SOGI asylum-seeking system.
I co-founded the French electronic scientific journal Genre, sexualité et société, of which I was first editor-in-chief then editor from 2010 to 2018. I am also co-founder and co-director of the series àltera / politics and theories of sexuality at Edizioni ETS.
You can also find me on the LGBT Act project website and on the institutional page of the University of Verona.
Since 2015, I have been a research associate at the Emile Durkheim Center in Bordeaux.