Chiara Milan is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she coordinates the Jean Monnet Network “Transnational Political Contention in Europe” (TraPoCo). She has been Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute.

Professor Milan is the author of Social mobilization beyond ethnicity: Grassroots movements and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Routledge, 2020). She has also published several articles in international journals and chapters in edited volumes on social movements and contentious politics in divided societies, exploring their broader significance for political participation and citizenship.

Chiara also worked on right to the city movements, with a specific focus on Southeastern Europe. She is currently working on the mobilization of youth of migrant descent and collective solidarity actions in support of refugees.

Research interests: social movements; urban sociology; sociology of migration; race; citizenship; ethnicity; youth activism.