Jacopo Custodi

Jacopo Custodi is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science at the Florence branch of the Scuola Normale Superiore. His current research focuses on the class dealignment of left-wing parties and its impact on their political communication. Previously, he studied the relationship between left-wing politics and national identities.

Since 2023 he is also part of the Horizon Europe RECLAIM project, where he researches journalism, disinformation, and media policies.

He is the author of Un’idea di Paese. La nazione nel pensiero di sinistra (Castelvecchi 2023) and Radical Left Parties and National Identity in Spain, Italy, and Portugal: Rejecting or Reclaiming the Nation (Palgrave 2024). His work on the intersection of left-wing politics and nationalism earned him the “Top Cited Article” award from Nations and Nationalism (Wiley) for the 2021–2022 period.

In addition to his research, he teaches at the Italian campuses of Georgetown University and Stanford University.