The Laboratory for Alternative Theories invites some of the leading researchers in the field from around the world to engage in its research activities as visiting scholars. Below is the list of recent visiting researchers.
Visitors
Prof. Jean-Numa Ducange
University of Rouen Normandie, France
February 2023
Jean-Numa Ducange is a professor of Contemporary History at the University of Rouen Normandie (France) and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the co-director of the French journal "Actuel Marx". He specializes in the history of socialism and Marxism in Europe, with a particular focus on France, Germany and Austria. He has published numerous works on these themes in different languages. His publications include (in English): The French Revolution and Social Democracy. The Transmission of History and Its Political Uses in Germany and Austria, 1889–1934 (Brill, 2018); Jules Guesde. The Birth of Socialism and Marxism in France (Palgrave, 2020); edited volume: The End of the Democratic State: Nicos Poulantzas, a Marxism for the 21st Century (Palgrave, 2019, with Razmig Keucheyan); Marx, a French Passion. The Reception of Marx and Marxism in France’s Political-Intellectual Life (Brill, 2023, with Antony Burlaud).
Dr. Maria Paola Faggiano
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
July-August 2022
Maria Paola Faggiano, Ph.D. in Methodology of Social Sciences, Tenure-track assistant professor of Sociology, Sapienza-University of Rome. She is the Scientific Head of the Electoral Sociology Observatory and of the Communication and Social Research Laboratory at the Department of Communication and Social Research. She has published monographs and many articles on methodological issues. Among her recent publications, Content Analysis and Digital Data: Methodological Solutions between Tradition and Innovation. The Case of Digital Campaigns as Meeting Ground of Expertises and Research Perspectives (with Gallo R., Italian Sociological Review, 2021).
Dr. Stefano Nobile
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
July-August 2022
Stefano Nobile is an associate professor at Sapienza, University of Rome, where he teaches Social Research Methodology and General Sociology. In the field of methodology, he has published studies and research on content analysis, text mining and empirical index construction techniques. In addition to social research methodology, his interests span the sociology of music, social acceleration processes, youth lifestyles and political sociology. In 2022 he published the book "Introduction to Social Research Methodology" (Carocci, Rome).