Raffaela Puggioni, Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University School of International Affairs in Sonipat, India, has been awarded the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship with her project entitled MOBILISE Stay home: emergency, (im)mobility, and the liberal subject, which will be implemented under the mentorship of Luiss Professor Michele Sorice.
Professor Puggioni boasts a variety of experiences at the international level. After receiving her PhD at the University of Kent and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education at the University of Nottingham, Raffaela has been teaching for over ten years at universities in Italy, China, Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom and India, in addition to acting as Member at the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement at the University of Cambridge, Global Studies Researcher at the University of Sussex, and Fellow at the Higher Education Academy.
Along the lines of her expertise in the field of Citizenship and Mobility Studies, Professor Puggioni’s research will investigate how emergency measures imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 have challenged the understanding of citizenship, freedom and civic engagement, with particular reference to "practices of resistance” against forced immobility.
“The Marie Curie Fellowship represents an exceptional opportunity to conduct research on a topic which is strictly linked to the current pandemic, as well as to learn from Professor Sorice’s mentorship and reconnect with European academics, after several years in Asia,” says Professor Puggioni.