Biography
Valentina Di Stasio is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute. Before joining the EUI in 2024, she held positions as Assistant and Associate Professor at Utrecht University, with an affiliation to the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). In Utrecht, she co-founded and co-led the Interuniversity Network on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Di Stasio earned her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2014 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Nuffield College (University of Oxford) and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre.
Her research primarily addresses labour market inequalities, with a focus on gender, ethnic, and racial discrimination. Her work is often comparative and based on experimental and quantitative methods. In her most recent publications, she examined Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination, and ethnic and gender stereotypes from an intersectional perspective.
Currently, Di Stasio is the PI of the ERC-funded project TARGETS and the co-PI of the Horizon Europe project EqualStrength. Her research has been published in, among others, Annual Review of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Sociology, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Psychology Quarterly.