Professor of Sociology
European University Institute
Dr. della Porta teaches courses on political sociology, transformations in democracy, social movements and civil society as well as qualitative methods and research designs. She has received a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and a Ph.D in political and social sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1990 she received a Career Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation; in 1997 a Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. She has conducted research at Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. Her main research interests concern social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of public order. On these issues she has conducted investigations in Italy, France, Germany and Spain and is involved in several comparative projects on citizenship and social movements.
For more information, see Dr. della Porta's website.
Public Lecture:
Democracy in Movements: Visions and Practices of Democracy in Global Justice
Monday, April 7, 2008, 6:30-9 pm, Fulton 511
Faculty/Graduate Student Seminars:
Europeanization from Below: Social Movements and Multilevel Governance
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Seminar readings:
Eventful protest, global conflicts
To attend the seminar, RSVP sociology@bc.edu.