Joana Lilli Hofstetter is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, and a member of the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). As part of the ECSEuro project she currently carries out research on the enactment of citizenship and solidarity in grassroots initiatives in Europe. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore, with a dissertation on the collective self-organisation of sex workers and prostitution politics in Germany. Joana is also co-founder and board member of the German Association for Sex Work and Prostitution Research (https://gspf.info/).

Research interests: contentious politics and social movements, gender, labour & sexuality, feminist theories, research ethics, and participatory methodology