Gennaro Ascione

Professional Roles and Affiliations

Since 2023, Gennaro Ascione serves as Senior Researcher in Sociology (SPS/07) at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale. He teaches Sociology and Mediterranean Cultural and Postcolonial Studies. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Center for Global Studies, Directeur d'etudes associès at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris), and affiliated with the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. He has held visiting positions, including at Delhi University (2015-2017).

Education

• PhD in History and Society of Modern and Contemporary Age (2008), Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM)
• Research periods at UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies and SUNY Binghamton's Fernand Braudel Center

Research Interests

Ascione's work focuses on Global Studies, capitalism, modernity, and science epistemology. He explores non-Western knowledge systems, postcolonial/decolonial theory, World-Systems Analysis, indigenous ontologies, and Eastern philosophies. His historical research includes premodern Mediterranean knowledge circulation and Giordano Bruno's thought.

Publications Highlights

Key works include Concept Formation in Global Studies (2024), Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory (2016), and A sud di nessun Sud (2009). He edited the first Italian anthology of decolonial thinkers (America Latina e modernità, 2014).

Awards and Recognition

Recipient of the 2017 Explorative Research Award from the World International Studies Committee for post-Western international theory. Honorary fellowships include the Center for Social Theory at Warwick University and the Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group.

Grants and Leadership

Member of the University of Naples' Research Commission and Executive Board. Co-founder of the UN-sponsored Non-Hegemonic World-Sociology group. Active in networks like the Global Social Theory and Conceptual Analysis in Social Sciences.

Labs and Collaborations

Leads the Interuniversity Research Center on Transnational Technocultures (CRITT). Collaborates with global institutions on decolonial and global studies initiatives.