Silvia Frosina is a doctoral candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, and a member of the Centre of Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Firenze, Italy. Her expertise lies in the study of State-civil society relations and contentious collective action in Sinophone societies, international relations, and political sociology. Her PhD research explores the impacts of contested statehood on the trajectories of social movements mobilization in Taiwan from a processual-relational perspective. In 2024, she has been a recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology of National Taiwan University.

Research interests:

East Asia, China-Taiwan relations, political sociology, social movements