Maria Nicola Stragapede is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore, where she works on Tunisian youth activism in post-revolutionary processes, memory studies, and socio-economic inequalities in political mobilisation.

She holds a bachelor degree in Sociology from the University of Trento where she collaborated to the ROMACT project on the Romani and Sinti community of Trento. She also holds a MPhil in the Sociology of Media and Culture from the University of Cambridge, funded by an ESRC grant.

Maria Nicola has previously lived in Tunisi, where she worked on a local volunteer program in Mellasine and has been an activist with the Peace Corps Operation Dove in the South Hebron Hills, Palestine.

Research interests: political mobilisation and demobilisation, urban movements, MENA region, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies