I am a British-Italian-Turkish comparative historical sociologist working at the intersections of sociology, history, anthropology, criminology, and political science. Power breaks societies; resistance remakes them, and I study both. Specifically, my research examines why conflict emerges and how communities resist violence, injustice, social harm, and systemic oppression across Europe, the Middle East, North America, and beyond, from modern history to the present.

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I am Associate Professor at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln.  I am the author of three research monographs published with McGill-Queen's University Press, Cornell University Press, and University of California Press, and I have secured £2.9 million in competitive research funding as Principal Investigator.

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I am the Book Series Editor for Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society, published by Temple University Press, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Social Science Journal (Wiley/UNESCO). 

 

I am very happily married to Gioacchino Messina.​