Carla is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore and a member of the Center of Social Movement Studies (COSMOS). Her research interests revolve around contentious politics and its relational dimension.

Before coming to SNS, Carla attained her B.A. in Modern Languages and International Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and her M.A. in Political and Social Sciences at Sciences Po Strasbourg. During her studies in Strasbourg, she specialized in social movement theory and in her Master’s thesis she analyzed intergroup relationships in the No-Muos campaign.

Her current research focuses on the interplay between pro-independence parties and movements in the Scottish and Catalan quests for self-determination.

Research interests: social movements, party-movements interactions, political participation, minority nationalism, and comparative politics