Federico Terragoni is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Caen Normandy, a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and founder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Politics (CRIPOLIS) at Paris Cité University. He has published L’Énigme révolutionnaire (Les Prairies ordinaires, 2015), Sociologies de l’individu (La Découverte, coll. “Repères,” 2018, reprinted 2026), L’esprit démocratique du populisme. Une nouvelle analyse sociologique (The Democratic Spirit of Populism: A New Sociological Analysis) (La Découverte, 2019), Émancipation (Emancipation) (Anamosa, 2021) and Sociologie du conflit (Sociology of Conflict) (Armand Colin, coll. “U”, 2021). An internationally recognized specialist in populism, he held the “Democracy” chair at the European University Alliance Circle U.
