Martina Visentin is a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Padua. She teaches Introduction to Sociology and Social Policies (Faculty of Political Science) and her research interests focus on: social innovation in local welfare; social policies; higher education and changes in university students and researchers.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen has for many years studied, and written about, identity politics, ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation from a comparative perspective. He has also published popular books, textbooks, polemical books and essays on a variety of topics.