Luca Falciola
Assistant Professor
Luca Falciola is an assistant professor of political science at T九色视频 and an adjunct professor at Columbia University鈥檚 European Institute. His research focuses on social movements, radical politics, and political violence. Adopting historical and comparative methods, he investigates the development of anti-systemic cultures, the logic of collective mobilization, the mechanisms of radicalization, the evolution of protest policing, and the patterns of legal militancy. He wrote two books: Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s鈥1970s (UNC Press, 2022) explores the engagement of militant attorneys and their extraordinary impact on social struggles in America; The Movement of 1977 in Italy (Carocci, 2015) surveys the most radical, creative, and violent leftist mobilization of postwar Italy. His publications also include articles and book chapters on various aspects of contentious politics in Europe and the United States. Prior to joining T九色视频, he has been lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University; post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the United States and the Cold War, New York University; research fellow at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy; and post-doctoral fellow at Yale University鈥檚 program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. He earned a Ph.D. in History at Sciences Po, Paris.
Areas of Expertise/Research
- European Politics
- Political Violence and Terrorism
- Radical Politics
- Social Movements
Building
North Academic Center
Office
NAC 4/143 C

Luca Falciola
Education
Ph.D. History, Sciences Po, 2011
Courses Taught
PSC 23000 Contemporary Comparative Politics
PSC 32400 The Politics of Protest
PSC 33500 Terrorism and World Politics
Publications
Books:
. University of North Carolina Press, 2022
. Carocci, 2015 (reprinted 2017)
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
鈥淪tudenti senza terra: la diaspora palestinese in Italia, tra solidariet脿, politica e violenza.鈥 19, no. 54 (2022): 69鈥104
鈥淭ransnational Relationships between the Italian Revolutionary Left and Palestinian Militants during the Cold War.鈥 22, no. 4 (2020): 31鈥70
鈥淎 Bloodless Guerrilla Warfare: Why U.S. White Leftists Renounced Violence Against People During the 1970s.鈥 28, no. 5 (2016): 928鈥949
鈥淚 dibatti degli intellettuali italiani nel 1977: segnali di una svolta culturale?鈥 10, no. 1 (2014): 57鈥74
鈥In the belly of the beast. Ipotesi sul contenimento della violenza dei white radicals 补尘别谤颈肠补苍颈.鈥 9, no. 3 (2013): 115鈥145
鈥淕li apparati di polizia di fronte al movimento del 鈥77: organizzazione e dinamiche interne.鈥 16, no. 2 (2013): 161鈥182
鈥淚l racconto degli anni di piombo sulla stampa quotidiana nazionale (1996-2010).鈥 4, no. 1 (2013): 105鈥115
鈥淐olpirne uno per salvarne cento. Il processo ai Ceau葯escu e le strategie di transizione nella Romania post-comunista.鈥 13, no. 1 (2010): 53鈥78
鈥淓lementi per una storia istituzionale della Romania comunista: il dispotismo di Nicolae Ceau葯escu.鈥 7, no. 2 (2007): 233鈥252.
Book Chapters:
鈥淎vvocate militanti negli Stati Uniti: impegno collettivo e forza dell鈥檈sempio.鈥 In , edited by Francesco Campobello and Santina Mobiglia. Rubbettino, 2022
鈥淟e premesse di una nuova sinistra.鈥 In , edited by Maria Pia Donato and Checchino Antonini. Left, 2020
鈥淩eagire alla crisi nel XX secolo: spontaneit脿 sociale e ipotesi radicali dopo lo shock petrolifero del 鈥73.鈥 In , edited by Laura Bovone and Carla Lunghi. Donzelli, 2020
鈥溌獻l Pci era di un altro mondo禄: il confronto impossibile tra sinistra storica e movimento del 鈥77.鈥 In , edited by Mauro Boarelli, Carlo Ginzburg and Nadia Urbinati. Biblioteca de 芦l鈥橝rchiginnasio禄, 2019
鈥淩epresenting Political Violence in the Underground Press: The Case of the Movement of 1977.鈥 In , edited by Andrea Chiurato. Mimesis, 2019
鈥淟a generazione introvabile. Destra radicale e movimento del 鈥77.鈥 In , edited by Simone Neri Serneri and Monica Galfr茅. Viella, 2019
鈥淔rames of Injustice across Borders: Revolutionary Left and Police Repression in Italy, France, and the United States.鈥 In , edited by Alberto Mart铆n 脕lvarez and Eduardo Rey. Routledge, 2016
鈥淔rom Legitimation to Rejection of Violence: The Shifting Stance of the Radical Milieu in Italy During the 1970s.鈥 In , edited by Lorenzo Bosi, Niall 脫 Dochartaigh and Daniela Pisoiu. ECPR Press, 2015
鈥Ceci n鈥檈st pas un mouvement: il 鈥77 e la sua rappresentazione.鈥 In , edited by Alexander Koensler and Amalia Rossi. Morlacchi, 2012
鈥淟uigi court au devant du danger : Luigi Manconi 茅voque Lotta Continua et les ann茅es 1970.鈥 In , edited by Marc Lazar and Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci. Autrement, 2012