TEAM
The GENPOLEAD team is composed by political scientists and political philosophers. Young scholars (under 35) are an integral part of the team.
Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia
Pamela Pansardi is PI of the GENPOLEAD project. She is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Pavia. She founded, with Licia Papavero, the Standing Group on Gender and Politics of the Italian Political Science Association. Her research lies at the intersection of political theory, gender and politics, European Union politics. She has published on topics such as women’s representation in Italy, the effect of quotas and candidates’ selection procedures on women’s election, and female leadership in the EU.
Eugenio Salvati is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pavia. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pavia and has been visiting PhD student at the University of Antwerp. His main research interests focus on political institutions and political elites, the process of European integration and multilevel governance, local welfare and social policy.
Federica Liveriero is an Assistant professor in Political Philosophy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia. She has held visiting positions at Boston College, at the University of California, San Diego, and at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Her main areas of interest are normative theories of justification and public reason; democratic theory; social epistemology and meta-ethics.
Francesco Baraldi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the GENPOLEAD project and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pavia, where he teaches “Explanatory Models in International Relations”. He earned his PhD in Political Studies at the University of Milan in November 2022. His main research interests are the influence of ideology and domestic environment on foreign and security policies and quantitative methods.
Elena Icardi is a Research Fellow of the GENPOLEAD project at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia. She holds a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan (Political Theory curriculum). During her PhD, she held a visiting research position at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. Her research interests mostly focus on freedom as non-domination, equality, democracy, and distributive justice.
Department of Human Sciences of the University of Verona – Research center PoliTeSse
Massimo Prearo is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Verona, where he is also scientific coordinator of the Research Center PoliTeSse – Politics and Theories of Sexuality. Since 2020 he chairs the Standing Group on Gender and Politics of the Italian Political Science Association. He specialized in the study of anti-gender movements and LGBTQIA+ politics in Europe and Italy. In 2022 he received the Emma Goldman Award for his academic work and his public commitment.
Federico Trastulli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the GENPOLEAD project at the University of Verona, and Course Instructor and PhD Candidate at LUISS Guido Carli. He is a member of the Italian Centre for Electoral Studies (CISE) and previously held a visiting research position at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Paris. He is a mixed-method scholar with research interests on political parties, voting behavior, socioeconomic and sociocultural conflicts.
Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan
Andrea Cassani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Studies of the University of Milan. He is founder and coordinator of the Standing Group “Political Regimes” of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP). He studies democracy, autocracy, the processes of regime change and their implications for development.
Valeria Resta is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the GENPOLEAD project at the at the Department of Social and Political Studies of the University of Milan. She is the author of Tunisia and Egypt after the Arab Spring: Party Politics in Transition (Routledge, 2024) and of a series of book chapters and articles appeared in peer reviewed international journals. Her research interests include democratization, authoritarian resilience and autocratization with a focus on the Middle East and the North African region.