Governing Bodies
Academic Director
The Academic Director is currently Prof. Dr. Agnese Vitali
The director coordinates and organizes the teaching activities and the administration of the doctoral programme; convenes and chairs the Programme Committee (PhD board) and oversees the implementation of its decisions; authorises the doctoral students to undertake research at partner universities or other institutions and research centres; notifies the relevant administrative offices of unexcused absences of the students and the concomitant suspension of scholarship payments and the eventual expulsion from the doctoral programme; drafts a detailed annual report in the state of the programme in conformity with article 3 of the Ministerial Decree no. 224 of April 30, 1998, to be submitted at the end of each academic year to the University’s evaluation Unit; appoints vice-directors able to act in his/her stead in case of illness or otherwise motivated absence.
Programme Committee
ACERBI ALBERTO
AGNEESSENS FILIP
BARBIERI PAOLO
BASSETTI CHIARA
BERTOTTI TERESA FRANCESCA
BISON IVANO
BOCCAGNI PAOLO
BRIGHENTI ANDREA
BOZZINI EMANUELA
BRUNAZZO MASRCO
BRUNI ENRICO
BUCCHI MASSIMIANO
COLOMBO ASHER DANIEL
COSSU ANDREA
CUTULI GIORGIO
DIANI MARIO
FELE GIOLO
FORNO FRANCESCA
GALLO ESTER
GATTEI STEFANO
GORI GIOVANNI CRISTIANO
GROTTI RAFFAELE
PAVAN ELENA
PERINO ANNAMARIA
PICCOLI LUCA
PILATI KATIA
POGGIO BARBARA
QUARANTA MARIO
SALZBERG ROSA MIRIAM
SCHERER STEFANI
SCIORTINO GIUSEPPE
SICORA ALESSANDRO
SICURELLI DANIELA
SIGNORETTI ANDREA
TIZZONI MICHELE
TOSINI DOMENICO
TRIVENTI MORIS
VELTRI GIUSEPPE ALESSANDRO
VITALI AGNESE
BARONE CARLO
LUIJKX ADRIANUS RUDOLPHUS
SCHIZZEROTTO ANTONIO
The teaching programme is often enriched by visiting professors
in 2019-20 the following persons will enrich our teaching programme:
Marc Swyngedouw (Leuven, BE)
Luigi Burroni (Florence)
some more to come
In the academic years 2017-19 these persons contribute to the training of our PhD students:
John Geary (UDC, IE)
Gianluca Manzo (Gemass, FR)
Daniele Vignoli (Florence)
Juho Harkonen (EUI)
Henriette Engelhart-Woelfler (Bamberg University, DE)
Anna Manzoni (NC State University, US)
Emanuela Struffolino (WZB Berlin, DE)
Nancy Foner (Hunter College, US)
....
In recent years the following persons taught in the graduate school
Richard Breen (Nuffield College, Oxford, UK)
Loretta Baldassar (Western Australia, AU)
David Kertzer (Brown University, US)
Jonathan Bright (Oxford Internet Institute, UK)
Peter Kivisto (USA)
Malcom Fairbrother (Bristol, UK)
Daniele Checchi (Milan, IT)
Marc Swyngedouw (Leuven, BE)
Tim Liao (Illinois, US),
Michael Shin (UCLA, US),
Barbara Risman (University of Illinois at Chicago, US),
Tom Slater (Edinburgh, UK),
Loretta Baldassar (Western Australia, AU)
Shin-Kap Han, National University of Seoul
Jörg Bergmann, University of Bielefeld
Letizia Mencarini, University of Turin
Chiara Saraceno, Collegio Carlo Alberto e University of Turin
Dalit Contini, University of Turin
Ken Liberman, Department of Sociology University of Oregon
a bit less recently:
Balazs Vedres, Central European University Budapest
Christian Heath, King's College London
Anne Rawls, Bentley College
Neil Joseph Smelser , University of California
Hans-Peter Blossfeld, University of Bamberg
Patricia Yancey Martin , Florida State University
Hartmut Esser , University of Mannheim
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux , University of Stockholm
David Hakken , Indiana University
Anni Borzeix , CNRS - Parigi
Lian Bannon , University of Limerick
Walter Mueller , Mannheimer Zentrum fuer Europaeische Sozialforshung
Raymond Boudon , Université Paris-Sorbonne
Doug McAdam , Stanford University
Gabriele Ballarino, University of Milan
Filippo Barbera, University of Turin
Raimondo Catanzaro, University of Bologna
Piergiorgio Corbetta, University of Bologna
Nicola Negri, University of Turin
B. Czarniawska