Kasia Nalewajko

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Collegio Carlo Alberto and a vice-coordinator of the Social and Political Sciences track of the Allievi Honors Program. Previously, I held a joint position of postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Carlos III and Juan March Institute.

I research the dynamics and legacies of extreme forms of violence. Specifically, I am motivated to understand how the Holocaust started, how people tried to survive it, and how we remember it. I am a proponent of mixed-methods designs. In my work, I use causal inference, standard statistical methods, and process tracing. Being a polyglot, I also love playing with computational tools. They help me acquire and clean data, e.g., through web scraping, digitising archival collections or analysing large amounts of text. By using these methods alongside social science theories and deep case knowledge I seek to make cross-disciplinary contributions to political science and to history scholarship. Additionally, I am interested in how our fragmented literature on political violence in political science could become more unified. Some of my research will soon appear in the American Political Science Review.

I received my Ph.D. from the European University Institute in 2022 and master's degrees from the Hertie School of Governance and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. During my Ph.D. I was a visiting Fulbright researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

You can find my CV here.