IGNACIA
PERUGORRIA FRATTINI

Ignacia Perugorría is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). She is Co-Director of the Collective Identity Research Center (CEIC), Coordinator of the GAIT–Gizarte Aldaketa Ikerketa Taldea high-performance research group, and leads its research line on Social Mobilization, Civic Engagement and Popular Culture. She is also co-founder and coordinator of the New Far Rights Global Research Network, affiliated with the Research Committees on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48) and Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). She earned her PhD in Social Sciences from EHU, her MA in Sociology from Rutgers University (USA), and her BA (Licenciatura) in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) — all three awarded with the highest distinctions conferred by these institutions, including the Extraordinary Doctoral Award and the Undergraduate Excellence Award. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has received fellowships from the Institute of International Education (USA) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, as well as grants from The British Academy, the International Sociological Association (ISA), and the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). She was also named 'Basque Ambassador' by the Bizkaia Talent Program of the Provincial Council of Biscay. While at Rutgers, Ignacia was elected Vice President and later President of the Graduate Student Association, the governing body representing nearly 15,000 MA, PhD, and postdoctoral students and over 70 academic and cultural graduate student organizations. She also served as Graduate Workers Representative on the Executive Council of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT, and was appointed Delegate to the AFT National Convention. Throughout her career, she has participated in almost 20 research projects and has taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in theory and methods across the United States, Latin America, and Spain. She currently serves as Academic Coordinator of the Social Research Methods Area in the BAs in Sociology and Political Science (EHU). She is also supervising 2 PhD dissertations and has supervised 4 Master’s theses at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (EHU–ISA), with two earning the Extraordinary Master’s Award. Ignacia’s research lies at the intersection of social movement studies, the sociology of culture, and political sociology. Her work combines quantitative and qualitative approaches with visual ethnography and social network analysis, focusing on youth extreme right-wing activism. Her articles have been published in leading journals including Politics and Religion, Current Sociology, Revista Española de Sociología (RES), Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS), Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Política y Sociedad, and Recerca. She has also co-edited a special issue in Current Sociology and a volume in The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture (Routledge/Mobilization: An International Quarterly), one of the leading collections in the field of contentious politics. She is currently working on: 1. Her monograph "The Politics of Celebration. Festive Networks, Intersectional Activisms, and Ephemeral Urban Commons in Bilbao," forthcoming in Routledge (2026) 2. A co-edited special issue titled “The Cultural Turn of the Far Right: Symbolic Power, Affective Politics and Everyday Extremism,” forthcoming in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology (2027) 3. A co-edited special issue titled “New Horizons in the Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Climate Emergency, and Socio-Ecological Practices,” forthcoming in Current Sociology (2027)