Cecilia Emma Sottilotta

Cecilia Emma Sottilotta is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of International Human and Social Sciences of the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Unistrapg). Before joining Unistrapg, Sottilotta was an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Global Politics and Director of the MA Program in Peace Studies at the American University of Rome. Previously, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science of LUISS Guido Carli, working on  the research project "The choice for Europe since Maastricht: Member States' preferences for economic and fiscal integration - EMU Choices" funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation  program.  She has been Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Salzburg, Austria (2016), Visiting Professor at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia (2017), DAAD Visiting Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies - GIGA Hamburg (2019), Visiting Researcher at the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School, Berlin (2021). Since 2021, she is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, where she teaches Political Risk Analysis in a European perspective. Her research interests span themes such as political risk, including issues of security and political violence, state-MNEs relations, trade, European  and Latin American politics.