Tito Marci is Full Professor of Sociology of Law at Sapienza University of Rome. He obtained a PhD in Sociology of Law from the University of Milan. Its research focus on areas such as history of sociology, sociology of law and general sociology. He published widely in various formats and topics. His research interest include education, cooperation and corporate, rights, democracy and civil society. He is part of various national and international networks and coordinated Erasmus relations for the department of Political Science of Sapienza University, including with the universities of Berlin, Istambul and Antwerp and bilateral relations with the universities of Hammam (Jordania), San Francisco (USA), Quito (Ecuador) and Jawahrlal Nehru (New Delhi India).

Giovanni Ruocco is lecturer in “History of Political Thought” at the Department of Political Science, University of Rome “Sapienza” and qualified as associate professor. His research interests are focused on the history of philosophy and political thought between modern and contemporary Europe, particularly on historiographical problems. He has worked and published studies on Michel de Montaigne, François de La Mothe le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Jeremy Bentham, Gaetano Mosca, and his historiographical essays cover concepts such as Libertinism, People, Modern State, Baroque, Preventive War, Totalitarianism, Transition, Biopolitics; he is currently working on Racism and its history. He tutors classes on “Political Thought of Colonization and decolonization”, where he analyses western culture as a product of ideas of world colonization. He is a member of Professors’ Council of Doctorate (PhD) of Political Studies of his University. He collaborated with the Universities of Roma Tre and Macerata.

Sofia José Santos is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra) and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, and Researcher at OBSERVARE, Autonomous University of Lisbon, and Promundo-Europe. Previously, she was post-doc researcher at CES and researcher and coordinator for media and communications at Promundo-Europe. She holds a PhD and a MA in "International Politics and Conflict Resolution", School of Economics, University of Coimbra, a BsC in International Relations from the same faculty, and a specialization in Journalism (radio and press) from the Centre for Journalist Professional Training (CENJOR), Lisbon. Her current research interests include: media, peace and violences; peace media, peacebuilding and the liberal peace; cities and paradiplomacy; media and contestation politics;big data, privacy and internet governance; masculinities and violence prevention.

Silvia Rodríguez Maeso has PhD in Political Sociology (University of the Basque Country). Silvia is Principal Researcher at CES and member of the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe). She lectures in the PhD Programmes: "Democracy in the 21st Century" (FEUC/CES) and "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" (CES/IIIUC); and in the International Master "Roads to Democracy(ies)" (UC/University of Siegen). She has recently been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to coordinate the project POLITICS – The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles» (ERC 2017-2022). She is currently coordinating the research project COMBAT - Combating racism in Portugal: an analysis of public policies and anti¬discrimination law (FCT, 2016-2019) and she has been executive coordinator of the project TOLERACE - The semantics of tolerance and (anti-)racism: public bodies and civil society in comparative perspective (UE, FP7; 2010-2013). Her main research and teaching interests have centred on the following areas: social theory, racism and anti-racism in European contexts; Eurocentrism and Knowledge production; Truth Commissions in Latin American contexts.