Dr Claudio Sopranzetti
BA, MA, PhD
Quondam Fellow since 2019
Claudio Sopranzetti is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Central European University. His research interests sit at the nexus of theorizations of capitalism, urbanism, ecological transition, and social movements in Southeast Asia and Southern Europe. Currently, he is conducting a new research project in southern Italy exploring the aftermath of a phytopatological epidemic that killed more than 21 million olive trees.
Contact:sopranzetti.claudio@gmail.com
- Associate Professor, Central European University (from 2019 to the present)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2019)
- Post-Graduate, Harvard University (from 2006 to 2013)
- Undergraduate, University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ (from 2003 to 2005)
- Social anthropology
- Urbanism and social movements in the global south
- Thai studies
- Politics of everyday life
- History of capitalism
- Environmental Studies
- The King of Bangkok, Toronto University Press, 2021 (translated in Italian, Thai, German, and English)
- Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxis Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok, University of California Press, 2018 (translated in Italian and Thai)
- Red Journeys: Into the Thai Red Shirt Movement, University of Washington Press and Silkworm Books, 2012
- Beyond vernacular and metropolitan concepts: Good Governance, Translation and Word Coinage in Thailand, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Vol.12, No.3, 2023
- An experiment in Graphic Ethnography: reflections of the King of Bangkok, JRAI: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol.28, No.3, 2022
- Framed by Freedom: Emancipation and Oppression in post-Fordist Thailand, Cultural Anthropology, Vol.32, No. 1, 2017
- 2024 – Kate Browne Creativity in Research Award – Society for Economic Anthropology
- 2023 - ICAS Best Read for the General Public Accolade – International Convention of Asian Scholars
- 2022 - INDIES Award – Best Humanities Graphic Novel
- 2021 - PROSE award Best Non-fictional Graphic Novel – Association of American Publishers
- 2020 - Thai Editor Choice Award – Association of Thai Publishers
- 2019 - Margaret Mead Book Award - American Anthropological Association
- 2012 - Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA) Graduate Essay Prize