Marco Giugni

Short Biography

Marco Giugni is a researcher at the Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (resop) and teaches at the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva. He was visiting scholar at the New School of Social Research (New York, NY), at the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), and at the University of Florence (Italy). He had teaching appointments at the University of Trento (Italy), at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland). He has authored or co-authored several books and articles on social movements and contentious politics. Recent books include Social Protest and Policy Change (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), Contested Citizenship (University of Minnesota Press, 2005; with Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, and Florence Passy), and La citoyenneté en débat (L’Harmattan, 2006; with Florence Passy). He has directed and collaborated in a number of comparative projects on topics relating to social movements and contentious politics, social exclusion, and social and political integration. His research interests include: social movements and collective action, immigration and ethnic relations, and unemployment and social exclusion.