CV
Professor
Department of social and Political Sciences
University of Milan
Via Conservatorio, 7
1971-1974
University of Rome (Italy), Doctorate Sociology (summa cum laude)
1966-1969
St Anselm College, Manchester, NH (USA), B.A. Sociology (magna cum laude)
2002-2016
Full Professor of Sociology of Communication, University of Milan
1997-2001
Associate Professor Sociology of Communication, University of Genova
1988-1997
Associate Professor Sociology of Communication, University of Salerno
1982-1988
Senior Researcher (tenured), University of Milan
1977-1982
Post-doc in Sociology of Communication, University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences
2018
ICA Fellow
10/2017
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Loughborough
9/2015
Visiting Professor, University of Toulouse, France
1-2/2015
Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle
1-7/2011
Visiting Professor, German Science Foundation, Freie Universitaet, Berlin
7/2007
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern Australia
1-5/2006
Visiting Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (USA)
1-2/2000
Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck
9-10/1998
Visiting Professor, Centre for Communication Research and Development,
University of Southern Queensland (Australia)
1-8/1995
Visiting Fellow, CeViPOF- Sciences-Po Paris
9-12/1992
Institute of Political Sciences, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1977-79
Junior Researcher, WZB-Wissenschafteszentrum Berlin
2020
David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship,
ICA (International Communication Association) and APSA (American Political Science Association)
2013
Alumni Academic Achievement Award,
St. Anselm College
1992
Premio Saint Vincent
(Award for the best book in Communication)
Universities of: Michigan (Ann Arbor), George Mason (Fairfax), Zurich, Duke (Durham), Griffith (Brisbane), Southern Australia (Adelaide), Complutense (Madrid), Valencia, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bamberg, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Central European University (Budapest), Swinburne (Melbourne), Mid Sweden (Sundsvall), Loughborough, East Anglia (Norwich), Dortmund, Lomonosov (Moscow), Poznan.
2019-2021
Member of the Fellows Book Award Committee of the International Communciation Association (ICA)
2007-2024
Founder and Head of the eight editions of the Milan International Summer School in Political Communication and Electoral Behavior
2014-2016
Chair of Swanson Award Committee of the International Communication Association (ICA) and of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
2013
Program Planner and Organizer of the Political Communication Section of the European Association of Communication Research (ECREA)
2013
Program Planner and Organizer of the Annual Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica
2014-2019
President of the Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica
2004-2017
Member of Review Board of the Swiss National Science Foundation, NCCR Democracy, Zurich
2005-2006
Chair of the Political Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA)
2005 -2008
Board of Directors, International Communication Association (ICA)
2005-2009
Vice-chair of the Management Committee of COST ACTION A30: ‘East of West’, funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF)
2003-2004
Program Planner, Annual Conferences in New Orleans and New York, Political Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA)
1998-2004
Chair of the Euromedia Research Group
2011-2015
Editor-in-Chief of The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, sponsored
by the International Communication Association (ICA) and published by Wiley (2016)
2000-2013
Co-Founder and Editor of Comunicazione Politica, Il Mulino (Italy)
2006-2010
Editor Book Series, Hampton Press
2024-2025
The Lab’s Quarterly
2010-2015
International Journal of Press/Politics, Sage
1998-2015
Political Communication, Taylor & Francis
since 1998
European Journal of Communication, Sage
since 1997
Journal of Political Marketing, Haworth Press
since 2008
Central European Journal of Communication
since 2014
Problemi dell’Informazione, Il Mulino
since 2016
Sociologia della Comunicazione, Franco Angeli
since 2013
Comunicazione Politica, Il Mulino
2011-2013
Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe. FP7-SSH-2009-A: MEDIAACT (Partner)
2008
Popularization of politics, going public and TV political entertainment.
Ministry of University and Scientific Research
2004
The permanent campaign: media, voters, players. Ministry of University and Scientific Research
2002
Local leadership and communication. Ministry of University and Scientific Research
1998
Climate of opinion and electoral campaigns: The European Elections 1999.
Ministry of University and Scientific Research