New Member of the American Academy

Donatella della Porta has been inducted as a new member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” Academy members include those who discover and advance knowledge and those who apply knowledge to the problems of society.

The Italian political scientist Donatella della Portais currently working at the Center for Civil Society Research to investigate how progressive and regressive protest movements developed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Della Porta is a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also directs the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos).

Her stay is made possible by a research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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2.5.2022