Giovanni Matera
Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program (spring 2022-spring 2023); Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Human & Social Sciences, French School of Public Health.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2021-2023).
Research interests: Psychiatry and democracy, community context and mental health, hospitality, migration, sociology of valuation and evaluation.
Giovanni researches the ways a community makes room for a newcomer. He is currently studying the organization of asylum support and community psychiatry in Greece and Switzerland, as a form of hospitality. He is using three research fields - pragmatic sociology of hospitality, sociology of psychiatry and the research stream on community context and mental health. Using sociology of valuation and evaluation as a frame, Giovanni is looking at social inequalities with an eye to their public dimension as well as on the intimate scale of self-coordination.
This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated (last updated 9.12.2023)