Role
Full Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
Since 2025, member of the Board of Directors of the same university.
Bio
Marina Calloni holds a PhD in Philosophy (University of Pavia) and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences (European University Institute, Florence). She also conducted research in Frankfurt under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas. She is president of the Italian Society of Critical Theory, director of the ADV – Against Domestic Violence study center, and director of the UN.I.RE. academic network for the application of the Istanbul Convention in the academic system. She has been a senior researcher at the London School of Economics and a visiting professor in several European countries, the United States (Columbia University, New School for Social Research, Notre Dame University), Latin America, and Asia.
She has lectured in 50 countries. She has collaborated with numerous transnational research networks, European organizations (European Commission and Council of Europe), and international institutions (UNDP, UNESCO). She directs the RiGenerAzioni series at Castelvecchi and is co-founder of the journal Reset.
She is the author of over 300 scholarly articles, published in several languages, on: social philosophy and political theory; human rights and fundamental freedoms; gender issues; critical theory of society; critique of violence; citizenship and the public sphere; research networks and international cooperation. Since 2002, she has been a registered journalist with the Order of Journalists of Lombardy. In 2020, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, awarded her the title of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.