Ilaria Riccioni is an Associate Professor of General Sociology and is qualified to hold the position of Full Professor in the Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Sociology at Sapienza University of Rome under the scientific supervision of prof. Franco Ferrarotti, where she also completed her Ph.D. in “Social Theory and Research.” She has a strong international presence, consolidated over the years through institutional appointments: she is currently President of RC37 Sociology of the Arts of the International Sociological Association (ISA) since 2018 and until 2027; she is an active member of the Steering Board of the ISTC (International Social Theory Consortium) since 2020 (http://socialtheory.org/index.html); is a member of the Board of Research Network 29 Social Theory of the ESA ( https://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn29-social-theory ); is a member of the Board of Sociological Theory RC 16 of the ISA ( https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-networks/research-committees/rc16-sociological-theory/ ); she is also currently member of the Board of Directors of the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano since 2013. She has broad research interests in general sociology: sociological theory and empirical research to interpret emerging social phenomena; critical sociology; the relationship between theorization and social research using mixed methods; sociology of culture and art; observation of avant-garde phenomena as social critique and indicators of change. Interconnections between local realities and the dynamics of global change. Biographical interviews as participatory tools for interpreting social phenomena.

She focuses on radical social phenomena, such as art and marginality, avant-garde art, boundaries, multiculturalism, culture, politics, and coexistence.

Author of several monographs: Futurismo, logica del postmoderno. Saggio su arte e società (La Mandragora, 2003); Futurism, Anticipating Postmodernism. Essay on Avant-garde and Society (Mimesis, 2019 eng. tr.);  Depero. La reinvenzione della realtà (Solfanelli, 2006); Bolzano, città di frontiera. Bilinguismo, appartenenza, cittadinanza (Carocci, 2012); Elites e partecipazione politica. Saggio su Vilfredo Pareto (Carocci, 2016); Teatro e società: il caso dello Stabile di Bolzano (Carocci, 2020); Per una sociologia del Confine (Carocci, 2025).

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