Walter Haeusl is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. His research lies in political sociology and political economy, with a regional focus on Southern Europe. He is interested in the structural foundations of contemporary politics, in terms of class and social identity, with a focus on the politics of the precariat.

Prior to joining Scuola Normale, he received a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Florence and a Master’s diploma in Political Science from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He also studied at Sciences Po (Paris), at the University of Essex and at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and was a research intern at INAPP in Rome.

Research interests: cleavages, post-industrial classes, the precariat, social identities, Southern Europe, left populism.