Hello and welcome!

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) on a fellowship generously funded by the Baden-Württemburg Foundation. I completed my PhD in the International Relations Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where I passed my viva with no corrections.

My research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics, peace and conflict studies, sociology, and social policy. My current research agenda focuses on: aid, social assistance, and social protection; authoritarian politics and the legacies of political violence; and social cohesion. For a more detailed synopsis of my professional experience and research, please see my About page.

Please feel free to get in touch by email at acd110@georgetown.edu or anne.della.guardia.gast@uni-mannheim.de. If you are kindly wondering about pronunciation, it’s Gua (as in guava)-r-dee-uh (as in up), and Della Guardia is a single surname (Della just means “of the” and is not a second given name).