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'''Donatella della Porta''' ([[Catania]], 1956) is an Italian sociologist and political scientist, who is [[Professor]] of [[political science]] and [[political sociology]] at the [[European University Institute]]. She is known for her research in the areas of [[social movements]], [[corruption]], [[political violence]], police and policies of [[public order]].

Full Professor of sociology inand Dean of the DepartmentFaculty of Political and Social Sciences at the [[EuropeanScuola UniversityNormale InstituteSuperiore]]. sinceBetween 2003. Sheand is2014 onshe leavehas ofbeen absenceFull fromProfessor in political sociology at the [[European University of FlorenceInstitute]],. wherePreviously she washas fullbeen professorFull Professor of Political Science, president of the ''corso di laurea'' in Administrative Sciences, and Director of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the [[University of Florence]]. She has received a ''Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies'' at the [[École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales]] of Paris and a Ph.D in political and social sciences at the [[European University Institute]] in Florence.

She directs COSMOS - Center on Social Movement Studies actually at the [[Scuola Normale Superiore]], the DEMOS project (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society) founded by the [[European Commission]]. She also coordinated the ''Gruppo di Ricerca sull'azione collettiva in Europa'' (GRACE). She has conducted research also at [[Cornell University]], [[Ithaca College]], and at the [[Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung]]. In 1990 she received a Career Development Award of the H.F. [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]]; in 1997 a ''Stipendium'' of the [[Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung]]. Her main research interests concern [[social movements]], political violence, [[terrorism]], [[Political corruption|corruption]], police and policies of public order. On these issues she has conducted investigations in [[Italy]], [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Spain]].