Tommaso Vitale, M.A. in Political Sciences (1999) and Ph.D. in Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Milano (2003), Certificate of Achievement awarded in the Program for Advanced Study in Comparative Institutional Analysis and Design at the Indiana University, Bloomington, USA (2004). Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris, France), where he is the scientific director of the master “Governing the Large Metropolis”. His main research interests are in the fields of Comparative Urban Sociology and of Urban Politics where he has published books and articles on conflicts and urban change, on spatial segregation, on social service planning, and on élite and local governance of industrial restructuring. 

Main research topics

1) Tensions between endogenous and exogenous mechanisms of urban change

2) Social effects of governance discontinuities

3) Structural contexts of opportunities

4) Social effects of minority visibility and segregation

5) Racism's mechanisms of diffusion and legitimation

Location

Paris

Disciplines

• Sociology

Affiliation

CEE, Sciences Po, Department of Sociology

Website

http://www.cee.sciences-po.fr/en/le-centre/research-team/258-tommaso-vitale.html