Since 2026, Post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Hamburger Institute für Sozialforschung.
Since 2014, member of the GER Grup d’Estudis sobre Reciprocitat, at the University of Barcelona
2022-2025, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ERC funded PACT Research Project, Populism and Conspiracy Theory, at the University of Tübingen.
2020-2021, Visiting Fellow at the Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona.
2014-2019, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the ERC funded GRECO Project, Grassroots Economics, at the University of Barcelona
2012-2014, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town.
2007-2010, Doctoral Scholarship recipient at the Scuola di Dottorato in Antropologia ed Epistemologia della Complessità, Università degli Studi di Bergamo.
2006-2011, PhD in Anthropologie Sociale et Éthnologie, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, (Ehess) Paris.
2004-2006, DEA (Diplome d’Études Approfondies) in Anthropologie Sociale et Éthnologie, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, (Ehess) Paris.
Selected Publications
Loperfido, Giacomo, Is “the Flesh of Populism” Truly Collective? Embodiment and Personalization as the (Neoliberal) Nexus Between Populism and Conspiracy Theory. Dialectical Anthropology (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-025-09809-4
Loperfido, Giacomo. From Class Politics to Identity Politics. The Five Star Movement and the Changing Dynamics of Reproduction in Political Identities, on "Rivista di antropologia contemporanea" 1/2025, pp. 53-73, https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.48272/118422
Butter, M., Hatzikidi, K., Jeitler, C., Loperfido, G., & Turza, L. (Eds.). (2024). Populism and conspiracy theory: Case studies and theoretical perspectives. Taylor & Francis.
Loperfido, Giacomo. (2021). Extremism, Society, and the State: Crisis, Radicalization, and the Conundrum of the Center and the Extremes (Vol. 20). Berghahn Books, https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800733459