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Serena D'Agostino she/her

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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About

Serena D’Agostino (she/her/hers) is a Senior Researcher in Political Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Universiteit Antwerpen. Serena obtained her PhD in Political Science at VUB in 2018. In her PhD thesis "Romani Women in European Politics. Exploring Multi-Layered Political Spaces for Intersectional Policies and Mobilizations", she investigated whether contemporary European multi-layered political spaces contribute to fostering or hindering intersectional policies and mobilizations, both at the national and the transnational levels. Serena holds a Postgraduate Certificate in EU Law on Immigration and Asylum from the 'Odysseus Academic Network' of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2013), an MA in International Politics and Relations from the University of Pisa (2009, summa cum laude), and a BA in International Communications from the University for Foreigners of Perugia (2005). During her Master, she spent a year as an Erasmus student at the Department of Hautes Etudes Internationales (HEI) of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (I.Na.L.C.O. – Paris). From 2009 to 2012 Serena worked in the NGO sector in the Western Balkans and Eastern Africa. Serena's research work has been published in the European Journal of Politics and Gender, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, and Politics, Groups, and Identities, among others. Her research interests include Anti-(Roma) Racism, Civil Society, Europe, Europeanization, (In)equality & Non-discrimination, Intersectionality, Intersectional Activisms, Minority Politics, Queer Politics & Theory, Romani Politics & Roma Rights, Social Movements.

Research Interests

Civil Society, Contentious Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, Gender, Migration, Social Justice, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Critical Theory, Feminism, Qualitative, Race, Mobilisation, Political Activism, Power, Protests, Activism