ERC Experience: Zooming in SH

Federico Varese is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has written on the Russian mafia, Soviet criminal history, migration of mafia groups, Somali piracy, the dynamics of altruistic behaviour, and the application of Social Network Analysis to criminology. His first book, The Russian Mafia (OUP, 2001), has been translated into Polish and Danish, and was the Co-Recipient of the ED A. HEWETT BOOK PRIZE awarded by The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Mafias on the Move (PUP, 2011) has been translated into Italian, and was the Recipient of The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime 2012 Outstanding Publication Award. His new book, Mafia Life (Profile and OUP, 2017), has been translated into seven languages. He also edited the four-volume collection Organised Crime (Routledge, 2010). He holds an Advanced ERC Grant, titled CRIMGOV, held at Sciences Po and Oxford University, for the period 2022-2026.

Organized by Elena Franchi with the collaboration of Matteo Benedetti, Andrea Di Nicola, Sandro Montresor and the Research Support Division UniTrento.