Hello and welcome!
I am an empirical social scientist and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) on a fellowship generously funded by the Baden-Württemberg 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, sociology, and social policy, and my current research agenda focuses on social cohesion and social protection. I use qualitative methods as well as computational social science approaches. 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. You can also find me on LinkedIn.
NEWS
- Trade reference book just published in 2026 by Bloomsbury Academic.
- Forthcoming article in Comparative Politics in October 2026 issue
- Participating in the KODAQS Data Quality Academy’s Certificate Program, a program to expand upon data science skills and the quality-oriented use of social science data; run by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
- Paper accepted by the Social Policy Association‘s 2026 Conference.
- Won a two-year fellowship from the Baden-Württemburg Foundation from 2026 through 2027.
NB: 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.