Current Position
Tenure-track researcher in sociology of media and culture and science and technology studies.
2025 – National Scientific Habilitation as “Associate Professor” in Cultural Sociology (area 14/C2; GSPS-06/A).
Since 2025 - Member of the STS Lab, coord. Prof. A. Pelizza, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna / Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University
Former academic positions
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024: Postdoc researcher, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, SHUT-MED Prin project
Sept 2020 - Dec 2023: Postdoc researcher, University of Bologna, ERC “Processing Citizenship. Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe” PI A. Pelizza
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020: Postdoc researcher, Universität Wien, Austria. Project: “EU Border Management Inter-agency relations and their impact on fundamental rights” PI P. Slominski
May 2017 - Sept 2018: Postdoc researcher, CNRS, based in Tunisia. H2020 “EUNPACK. Good intentions mixed results”, EU crisis response in Libya (humanitarian; SSR; migration and border domains)
EDUCATION
2016 Ph.D. Political and Social Sciences, Dept CPS, University of Turin, Italy, XVII cycle
Thesis: “Sweeping Too Much Dirt under a Small Carpet. How Local Rubbish Collection Reforms Uncover the Destabilizing Force of Authoritarian Persistence in Tunisia”
2011 MA Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Fac of Arts & Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy
Thesis: “Narrare il passato. Etnografia della memoria coloniale tra Italia e Libia”
2006 BA Musicology and Cultural Heritage, Fac of Arts & Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy
Thesis: “Il melodramma nel pensiero politico culturale di Antonio Gramsci”
Research Impact (as of July 2026)
Google Scholar H-Index: 9; Citations: 310
Scopus H-Index: 6; Citations: 90
Web of Science H-Index: 6; Citations: 62 /without self-citation
Participation in national and international academic research groups
• Research Associate at the University of Tours, France, at CITERES Cités, TERritoires, Environnement et Sociétés, Laboratoire CNRS Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7324, under research unit EMAM Équipe Monde arabe et Méditerranée: https://www.univ-tours.fr/recherche/animer-larecherche/nos-unites-de-recherche/umr-7324-cites-territoires-environnement-et-societes-citeres. Personal profile: https://citeres.univ-tours.fr/loschi-chiara/. From 01-09-2020
• Participation in the international research group “Innovation in Information Infrastructures”, based at the University of Oslo, Norway. This network explores studies on communication mechanisms and processes enacted by data and information infrastructures, from a multidisciplinary perspective including approaches based on social studies of science and technology, information systems studies, digitalisation and health studies, organisational studies, ICT4D, CSCW, gender studies. The network includes: University of Oslo, University of Bologna, University of Aarhus, University of Edinburgh. From 16 09 2024.
• Participation in the international research group called Kyōsō, a project funded by the University of Bologna (Call for proposals ‘Incentives for collaborative activities of departments with universities in the United States, Canada and Japan’), PI C. Coletta, Department of Philosophy (FILO), University of Bologna. Project involves: UNIBO Bologna Unit: Department of Philosophy (FILO), Department of Architecture (DA); University of Tokyo, Department of Urban Land Use Planning, Prof. Akito Murayama. Transdisciplinary network involving research groups of FILO: "Governance of and by Infrastructures" (GOBI; climate governance, population governance and digitalisation processes of society) "Filo x AlmaClimate" (climate change and the Anthropocene from the SSH perspective); FILO PhD "Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics" (PSCS).
FIELDWORK RESEARCH
- Oct 2025. Tokyo, Japan. Kyōsō, research network PI C. Coletta, University of Bologna (UniBo): Cooperation with prof. Akito Murayama, the University of Tokyo, Urban Land Use Planning Unit. Unibo “Incentivi per le attività di collaborazione dei dipartimenti con università di Stati Uniti, Canada e Giappone”.
- Sep 2024. Tunis, Tunisia. PRIN Project SHUT-MED: Securitizing Human Transit across the Central Mediterranean migratory corridor: shifting mobility governance discourses and practices in Italy, Malta, Libya, and Niger”.
- May 2017/Sep 2018. Tunis, Tunisia. CNRS Researcher based at French IRMC Tunis, Tunisia. Horizon2020 Consortium “EUNPACK Good intentions, mixed results”. Case of Libya.
- 2013 – 2016 Tunisia. Fieldwork for PhD thesis. Affiliated to Institut superieur des technologies de l’environnement de l’urbanisme et de batiment ISTEUB, Université de Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. Supervisor: prof. Y. Turki; IRMC Tunisia. 13 months.
- 20-27 Sept 2010. Louga, Senegal. Coordinator of mission to for EU Youth in Action program and CISV - Comunità Impegno Servizio Volontariato – Turin, Italy.
- “Jeunes, Reporters et Migrants”, EU Youth in Action program (2007/2013). Action 3.2. Partners: Paralleli, Turin, Italy; FESFOP (Festival International De Folklore Et De Percussions De Louga) Louga, Ouahigouya local radio (Burkina Faso), Altermondes Parigi. https://short-link.me/161t9
- June 2010. Tripoli, Libya. MA fieldwork research.
COMMENTARY AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
Media appearances
2025 “Libia e Italia: nuove tensioni in una brutta vita di coppia”, Snodi Podcast, Nigrizia. 9 April 2025. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MD0A72ApVJFLXqwmOrghC .
2020 Libia, cessate il fuoco immediato ed elezioni a marzo, Radio Popolare, 21/08. https://www.radiopopolare.it/che-cosa-e-successo-oggi-venerdi-21-agosto-2020/ .
2020 “Les Causeries de l’IRMC #2: Les déchets en Tunisie vus des SHS - Jamie Furniss invite Chiara Loschi”, IRMC Youtube, May 2020, shorturl.at/iFKT1.
2020 Cornelia Grobner, „Lücken der Verantwortlichkeit. Ein Wiener Forschungsteam untersucht, welche Rolle EU-Agenturen wie Frontex in der europäischen Flüchtlingspolitik einnehmen – auf dem Papier und in der Realität.“, Die Presse, 26/05. https://bit.ly/3m2dbkW .
2020 SciLog, FWF Projects coverage. Europas Grenzschutz im Dilemma. 16/03. https://bit.ly/31WYit4 .
2019 Lillo Montalto Monella, “EU funds Libyan Coast Guard but has limited monitoring capacity, leaked report suggests”, Euronews, 03/11. https://bit.ly/3EWEsg0 .
Web-based commentaries
In English
2024 “Migrants’ rights workers forced out of Tunisia in latest crackdown”, Open Democracy, 18 November 2024. https://shorturl.at/sGJWq
2021 “PREVEX H2020 project Café Débat: Countering Violent Extremism in the Maghreb. The Role of the EU Under Discussion”, Security Praxis blog, 25/01. https://bit.ly/3s1L4pD .
2018 “The EU response to the Libyan crisis: shallow impact with a short-term vision”, Open Democracy. 25/05. https://bit.ly/3GLQg5U .
2016 “Landfill Continues to Pollute Nearly Three Years after Intended Closing.” Tunisia Live. 17/01. https://bit.ly/3GMp9HZ .
2015 “The Bardo Terrorist Attack: An Obstacle to Democratisation in Tunisia?” Democracy in Africa Blog. 9/04. https://bit.ly/3EHy381 .
2014 “The Second Round of the Tunisian Presidential Election.” Presidential Power Blog. 23/12. https://bit.ly/3pZmMeZ .
2014 “The 2014 Presidential Elections in Tunisia.” Presidential Power Blog. 27/11. https://bit.ly/2ZVu4po .
2012 “Women’s Political participation to the Libyan revolution. A first analysis.” Mediterranean Observatory, 4, Paralleli Euromediterranean Institute of the North-West, 4-7. https://bit.ly/31pNJhR .
In French
2017 “Gestion des déchets en Tunisie: la nécessité d’un dialogue parmi les acteurs”, 1538 Mediterranée, https://bit.ly/3GHRCii .
2014 “Dans quelles conditions les réformes de la gouvernance locale renforcent la diffusion du conflit? Les effets indirects des reformes néolibérales en Tunisie”, Le Carnet de l’IRMC, 15/09. http://irmc.hypotheses.org/1611 [http://irmc.hypotheses.org/1421] .
In Italian
2020 “Editoriale: Per Patrick Zaki: una situazione disperata per lo studente detenuto e i diritti umani in Egitto”, Centro Studi Piero Gobetti, December. https://bit.ly/3nTRLGP .
2018 “Tunisia: nuovi sindaci per un paese in crisi”, ISPI. 01/08. https://bit.ly/3CDSMcd .
“Elezioni municipali in Tunisia tra disillusione e lotte di potere”, QCodeMAG. 28/05. https://bit.ly/3bytIav .
2014 “Tunisia. Fra transizione politica e crisi dei rifiuti”, OsservatorioIraq. 02/07.
“Tunisia. Analisi del voto 2014 (con uno sguardo al futuro)”, OsservatorioIraq. 30/12.
2011 La morte del tiranno, blog di Historia Magistra. Rivista di storia critica, ottobre 2011.
Fatta l’Italia, fatte le tasse, ovvero le suore e i briganti, blog di Historia Magistra. Rivista di storia critica, settembre 2011.
Giornalismo da bar, blog di Historia Magistra. Rivista di storia critica, giugno 2011.
Intervista ad Angelo del Boca, sito dell’Istituto Paralleli (Torino), 28 febbraio 2011.
Tripoli: gli oppositori del regime contrari a interventi esterni, in “Volontari per lo Sviluppo” versione on line, 27 febbraio 2011.
Twitter: specchio della rivolta libica, in “Volontari per lo sviluppo” versione on line, 22 febbraio 2011.
Libia, un ricorso storico? In “Volontari per lo sviluppo”, versione on line, 20 febbraio 2011.
2010 Memorie di pace. Intervista a Kaha Mohammed Aden, in “Volontari per lo sviluppo”, n. 06 settembre/ottobre 2010.
La musica come incontro tra culture. Intervista a Enrico De Angelis (Club Tenco), in “Volontari per lo Sviluppo”, versione on line, aprile 2010.
Nimrod. Una visione postcolonialista, in “Volontari per lo Sviluppo”, versione on line, aprile 2010.
2009 Sguardo sui Balcani. Nuove prospettive di studio, sito dell’Istituto Paralleli (Torino), settembre 2009.
