# Giovanni Matera Postdoctoral Researcher, French Red Cross Foundation 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). ![Giovanni Matera](/sites/g/files/omnuum8346/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/comparative-inequality-inclusion/files/giovanni_matera_2021.jpg?itok=qqog86Jl) email laptop\_windows [Personal website](http://centregeorgsimmel.ehess.fr/en/giovanni-matera/) laptop\_windows [Scholarship](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oR5aZDwAAAAJ&hl=it) ***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)* - ## People Categories [Former Affiliate](/people-categories/past-affiliate)