Current Director's Visitor
Matteo Bortolini
Field of study
Historical Sociology of Expert Knowledge Production
Home institution
Università di Padova, Italy
Website
Matteo Bortolini is a historical sociologist who studies the production of expert knowledge in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While at the Institute, he will work on a biography of the late American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), a founding member of the School of Social Science.
Visits
Director's Visitor
–
Degrees
University of Bologna, Italy
Ph.D.
2000
Honors
2022
Co-winner of the Distinguished Publication Award, American Sociological Association, Section of History of Sociology and Social Thought, for "A Joyfully Serious Man. The Life of Robert Bellah" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Appointments
University of Padua, Italy
2017
Associate Professor of Sociology