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 and my degree was conferred in 2025.

My research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics (and the peace and conflict subfield), sociology, and social policy. My current research agenda focuses on social cohesion and social protection. 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 Guar (as in guava)-dee-uh (as in up), and Della Guardia is a single surname. Della simply means “of the” and is not a second given name.