Anastasia Barone

Anastasia is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore and a member of COSMOS – Centre on Social Movement Studies. She obtained her PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore with a dissertation entitled From Self-Management to Institutionalization and Back: Feminist Health Centers in Italy between the 1970s and Today. She holds a BA from the University of Pisa, an Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree from the Universities of Toulouse and Coimbra, and an MA in Gender Studies and Politics from Roma Tre University. 

Her doctoral research focused on feminist movements, health activism, and the dynamics of institutionalization, with particular attention to collective memory and the legacies of mobilization across cycles of protest. Between 2023 and 2025, she was part of the Horizon Europe project FIERCE – Feminist Movements Revitalizing Democracy in Europe, where she investigated feminist activism and anti-gender politics in Italy and in comparative European perspective. 

She is the coordinator of the working group FIRE – Feminist Intersectionality and Gender, the working group Rhythms – Temporalities and Social Movements, and a member of the research group Gender and Politics at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She also teaches undergraduate students in the Study Abroad Program of the University of New Haven in Florence.

Her work has been published in leading international journals, including Social Movement Studies, Mobilization, AboutGender, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, and Frontiers in Political Science. Her monograph, Feminist Health Activism and Institutionalization in Italy, is forthcoming with Routledge (2026).

Her research interests include feminist movements and politics, anti-gender politics, feminism and democracy, collective memory and legacies, sexual and reproductive health.