Federica Genovese is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
She joined St Antony's College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford in January 2024. Previously, she worked at the Government Department at University of Essex (2014-2023). She has a PhD from University of Konstanz, a MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Hon BA University of Toronto. In the past she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and an academic visitor at Nuffield College in Oxford and Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin.
Her research focuses on international and comparative political economy, with particular attention to climate politics and policy, globalisation, redistribution and the politics of crises in Europe, but not exclusively.
Her writings have been published with Cambridge University Press and in American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Organisations, among other outlets. Her work has been supported by various foundations including the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust, and the Leverhulme Trust, which awarded her a Research Leadership Award in 2023.
In 2024 she received a Philip Leverhulme Prize "aimed at researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising."
