Anna Lavizzari is a postdoctoral researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, in Florence, where she is part of the COSMOS (Centre on Social Movement Studies) research team.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Kent (2017) and a Master in International Conflict and Security at the University of Kent (2012).

Her research focuses on political participation with a notable attention to social movements and protest politics among young people. She is interested in gender approaches to social movements, how gender dynamics play a role in the way protests unfold, how social movements build their strategies, alliances, claims as well as in the bio graphical trajectories of activists. She is the author of Protesting Gender: The LGBTIQ Movement and its Opponents in Italy.

Research interests: gender studies, youth political participation, youth studies, and social movements