Kristina Stoeckl is full professor of sociology at LUISS (Rome). From 2015 until 2023 she worked at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). She studied Comparative Literature and Russian at the University of Innsbruck and International Relations and European Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. She holds a Phd in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. In the past, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Post-Doc Fellow at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and APART Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2015, she received an ERC Starting Grant and FWF Start Prize for the project “Postsecular Conflicts”. She has published widely on sociology of religion, political sociology and political theory, with a focus on politics and religion, on state-religion relations in Russia, norm and anti-gender mobilizations and transnational religious actors. Her most recent book (co-authored with Phillip Ayoub) is The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights (2024). The Italian translation of The Moralist International. Russia in the Global Culture Wars (2022, co-authored with Dmitry Uzlaner) is out with Luiss University Press in 2024.
