EASA people

Cecilia Paradiso

La Rochelle Université/LIENSs/LPED/CeRCLEs

EASA Election candidate 2025-2026

I am a social anthropologist, interested in emerging environmental issues and their political-economic implications, with a focus on the Mediterranean coasts. After training between Italy and France and obtaining my PhD in 2022, I have worked as a temporary lecturer and researcher in several French universities, mostly in interdisciplinary contexts.

My professional experience and my knowledge of different academic contexts can help in composing an executive committee aware of the complexities of the European anthropological panorama. I will do my best to represent the interests of junior researchers and will work to facilitate contacts between young scholars in different European countries. I am particularly concerned with the conditions of teaching and research, as well as the widening gaps between these two fields within European institutions. This issue calls for the creation of spaces for sharing practices, where professional and inter-generational exchanges can be promoted. I believe that EASA represents a crucial forum for thinking collectively and concretely about the articulation of these two essential and interconnected activities – teaching and research – as well as about the dynamics that characterize social science today.

I would enthusiastically contribute to these advancements by becoming a member of the next executive committee.

Nominating member: Valeria Siniscalchi (Directrice d’études de l’EHESS); Supporting member: Adam Kuper (The London School of Economics and Political Science)