Linus Westheuser is a PhD candidate at Scuola Normale Superiore, working with Donatella della Porta. Linus is interested in the sociocultural aspects of conflict and cleavages. His PhD research examines symbolic boundary making among young manual workers and sociocultural professionals, exploring themes of precarity, moral economy, and deservingness.

Linus has studied Sociology, Political Science and Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, King’s College London and the École Normale Supérieure in Cachan. He is an associate researcher of the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity at the University of Potsdam and a member of the Berlin Institute for Protest and Movement Studies (IPB).

Contact: linus.westheuser@sns.it

Research interests: Symbolic boundaries, Morality, Cleavage theory, Class formation, and Doing gender