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Cristina Blanco Sío-López

European University Institute

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About

Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow and Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Horizon 2020 research project ‘Navigating Schengen: Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015’ (NAVSCHEN) - European Commission Grant Agreement (GA) No: 841201 - at the European Studies Center (ESC) - EU Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh and at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She previously was Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in Iberian and European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member. Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA), where she holds the ‘Strategic Partnerships’ and the ‘Visibility and Impact’ Portfolios and directs the ‘Global Passport for Scholars’ (GPS) Initiative. She is also Co-Leader of the GYA project ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art’ and part of the research team awarded with the ‘Sasha Kagansky’ Interdisciplinary Grant 2021/22 for the GYA project ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Personal Experiences of Global Young Researchers’. Furthermore, Dr. Blanco Sío-López is a Member of the Spanish Young Academy / Academia Joven de España (AJE), where she represents the field of History. The AJE is supported by the by the Centre of Human and Social Sciences / Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She is currently a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab (IPL) Expert and Moderator of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab (IPL) Team 'Historical Legacies of Free Movement and Migration Policy-Making'. She was Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) in 2020-2021, which received the ‘Best Non-European Chapter Award 2020’ by the MCAA.

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Citizenship, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, European Politics, European Union, Foreign Policy, Globalisation, Governance, Human Rights, Integration, International Relations, Latin America, Media, Migration, Policy Analysis, Political Participation, Political Psychology, Political Theory, Regionalism, Representation, Social Justice, Social Movements, Social Policy, Social Welfare, UN, Political Sociology, Constructivism, Critical Theory, Global, International, Post-Modernism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Social Media, Education