Marco Giani, PhD

Bio. Welcome to my website. I am an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.         

Before joining DPE, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Government Department at the London School of Economics. I obtained a PhD in Political Economy from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2017) and a BA in Social Science from the Università degli Studi di Firenze (2008). In between, I worked for UNICEF and the European Commission.      

I research the relationship between social cleavages and political values across European societies. The main focus is on how education divides social groups on cultural values, but I also work on civil-military and majority-minority attitudinal divergence amid political violence. Methodologically, I specialise in causal inference on observational data, including archival, survey and text data.    

At King's, I teach "Statistics for History and Politics" for UG students and "Politics of Discrimination" for MA students. I look forward to supervising PhD students with interdisciplinary backgrounds interested in the historical and contemporary relationship between politics and society. You're very welcome to email me about your research.