Lorenza Antonucci

Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2022-2023).
Headshot of Lorenza Antonucci standing in front of a blurred background
la577@cam.ac.uk
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Research interests: insecurity, political sociology, comparative inequality, platform work, populist voting                            

Bio: Lorenza Antonucci (she/they) is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She was German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (Harvard University) in 2022-2023. Their research is concerned with understanding how societies are changing and reacting to growing socioeconomic insecurity and inequality in Europe and globally. Antonucci is currently investigating platform work as a site of reconfiguration of insecurity and examining how socioeconomic insecurity reverberates into populist voting. Her interdisciplinary and comparative sociological work has been published in international journals (e.g. European Sociological Review, Current Sociology, Sociological Research Online, Journal of Youth Studies). Antonucci has a keen interest in theorizing insecurity alongside other key sociological concepts across cultural and economic sociology, such as social status, recognition and sociology of risk. Their next book, under advanced contract with Princeton University Press, offers an in-depth examination of the role of insecurity in the political sociology of populist voting. 

This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (last updated 12.26.2025)