Anna Sergi

Anna Sergi is a full professor of sociology of law and deviance in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Her research field is within critical and cultural criminology.

Before arriving in Bologna in October 2025, she was a full professor of criminology at the University of Essex, UK, since 2015. She has written books and scientific articles on the 'ndrangheta in Italy and around the world, including Australia, Canada, and Europe, and on cocaine trafficking in port cities.

In 2023, she won the Early Career Award from the European Society of Criminology (ESC) for scientific excellence within ten years of her PhD.

Passionate about writing and analytical communication, including in forms other than academia, she has, among other things, edited, together with Stefano Nazzi (il post), the podcast Le Onorate: donne dentro e contro la 'ndrangheta (Honored Women: Women Inside and Against the 'Ndrangheta); and, with Francesca Berardi (ChoraMedia), the podcast Mare di Rabbia (Sea of Anger). In English with Carlo Oreglia (SBS Australia), she produced the podcast “my Australian Mafia Roadtrip.