IGNACIA
PERUGORRIA FRATTINI

Ignacia Perugorría is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). 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. 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 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 President of the Graduate Student Association (GSA), 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 AAUP-AFT, and was appointed Delegate to the AFT National Convention in Chicago. Ignacia is co-founder and coordinator of the New Far Rights Global Research Network, affiliated with the ISA’s Research Committees on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48) and Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47). She also leads the Research Line on Social Mobilization, Civic Engagement and Popular Culture within GAIT–Gizarte Aldaketa Ikerketa Taldea, a High-Performance Research Group in the Basque University System. Throughout her career, she has participated in 17 research projects funded by Argentine, American, and European institutions. She has also taught more than 20 undergraduate and graduate courses in English, Basque, and Spanish across the United States, Latin America, and Spain, and currently serves as Academic Coordinator of the Area of Methodology and Social Research in the BAs in Sociology and Political Science (EHU). She is presently supervising two PhD dissertations and has supervised four 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 and network analysis, focusing particularly 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. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi. She has also co-edited two special issues in Current Sociology (one forthcoming) 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", accepted for publication in Routledge (forthcoming 2026). 2. A co-edited special issue in Current Sociology, entitled “New Horizons in the Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Climate Emergency, and Socio-Ecological Practices” (forthcoming 2027). 3. A co-edited volume, “Neoconservative Opposition to Moral Politics in Spain: Five Decades of Anti-Rights Mobilization (1978–2025)”, under review by Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).