Cosmos
The Centre on Social Movement Studies
Priska Daphi is a research associate at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and founding member of the Institute for Protest and Social Movement Studies in Berlin. Currently, she is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) at the European University Institute. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Humboldt-University Berlin and a MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Her research focuses on cultural dimensions of social movements, in particular collective identity and memory, as well as on (dis)continuities in and between movement cycles. During her stay at COSMOS she is working on a project on disengagement funded by the Humboldt-Foundation. At the University of Frankfurt she is involved in a project on processes of radicalization and deradicalization in transnational social movements funded by the German Research Foundation. She is co-editor of the book Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Research interests: social movements, political participation, cultural sociology, collective identity, memory, (dis-)continuities, transnational mobilisation.