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Research Assistant/PhD candidate

MA Francesco Melito

MA Francesco Melito

Office: room 605

PhD candidate at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University and an MSCA Fellow in the EU’s Horizon2020 Project ‘‘Delayed Transformational Fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe: Responding to the Rise of Illiberalism/Populism (FATIGUE)’’. Studied political science and international relations at Roma Tre University and European and international studies at the University of Trento and Metropolitan University Prague, where he graduated in 2017. His research focuses on poststructuralist discourse theory and its application in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. His doctoral thesis investigates the neo-traditionalist discourse in Poland by focusing on its hegemonic potential.

Francesco Melito CV

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  • F. Melito, “Finding the roots of neo-traditionalist populism in Poland: ‘Cultural displacement’ and European integration.” New Perspectives 2020, pp. 1-22.

  • Fatigue, Delayed Transformational Fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe: Responding to the Rise of Illiberalism/Populism, European Commission, Horizon 2018-2021, Member of the research team.