Simone Cremaschi

I am a political scientists studying topics in comparative political economy, political behavior, and political sociology. I am a postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University’s Department of Social and Political Sciences and Dondena Centre.
research. I investigate how political conflicts over material resources—such as ethnic and territorial competition for public services, the exploitation of migrant labor, and adaptation to climate-related disasters—shape politics in advanced democracies. My work also examines how narratives, collective memory, and local political cultures shape these struggles and fuel political mobilization. I combine diverse methods and sources of evidence, often involving extensive qualitative fieldwork and design-based causal inference, while also developing new approaches to integrate the two.
impact. My research is published or forthcoming in leading political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies, and has been featured in major media outlets like the Financial Times, the New York Times and The Guardian. I have received the IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Award 2021 for the best dissertation on migration, integration, and social cohesion in Europe, and the NEPS Medal 2025 for the best publication in peace science.
vita. I received my PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and have spent visiting periods at Columbia University, the WZB Berlin, ETH Zurich with the Immigration Policy Lab, and Bocconi University. My research has been generously funded by the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Leiden University, and Fondazione Roberto Franceschi. I have collaborated on social and research dissemination projects with civil society organizations such as Fondazione Roberto Franceschi, Associazione Naga, and Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.
contacts. To get in touch, please email me at simone.cremaschi@unibocconi.it.