{"id":70,"date":"2015-08-31T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/francesco-g-duina\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:38:59","slug":"francesco-g-duina","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/francesco-g-duina\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco G. Duina"},"content":{"rendered":"

M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University<\/em>
\nB.A., M.A., University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n

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Francesco Duina is Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the European Studies Program at Bates College. He is also Chair of the Social Sciences Division and a member of the Academic Affairs Council (2022-2026).<\/p>\n

Francesco has held appointments at Harvard University, Copenhagen Business School, and the University of British Columbia\u00a0 – where he was Professor and Head of Sociology during 2013-2015, and Honorary Professor from 2015 to 2019.<\/p>\n

His research addresses themes in economic sociology, political sociology, and international political economy. His interests focus in particular on:<\/p>\n

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  1. how nation states shape and react to the international economy<\/li>\n
  2. the design and impacts of international economic organizations (especially the EU)<\/li>\n
  3. how culture, institutions, and the economy interact<\/li>\n
  4. globalization and de-globalization: nationalism, populism, and social cohesion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Along with scholars from five other universities, Francesco was a partner in the Jean Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Politics<\/a> (Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union) for 2020-2024. The initiative was led by Carleton University.<\/p>\n

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    Articles and Chapters<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Francesco has published widely in leading political science and sociology journals. These include the Review of International Political Economy<\/a>, Review of International Studies<\/a>,<\/em> New Political Economy<\/a>, <\/em>Regulation & Governance<\/a>,<\/em> Comparative European Politics<\/a>,<\/em> Social Movement Studies<\/a>,<\/em> Socius<\/a>, Economy and Society<\/a>, <\/em>Journal of European Public Policy<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0International Sociology<\/a>, <\/em>Contexts<\/a>, <\/em>and Journal of Political Ideologies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Ten of those articles were co-authored with undergraduate students.<\/p>\n

    Francesco also has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes.<\/p>\n

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    Books<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Francesco is the author of seven books:<\/p>\n

    \"Untitled\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong>Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country <\/a><\/em> (Stanford University Press 2018). Numerous media outlets have covered the book. These include Salon.com<\/a>, Minnesota Public Radio,<\/a> Maine Public Radio, <\/a>and i24 News TV<\/a>. It won an Independent Publisher Book Award (2018) for Current Events.<\/p>\n

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    \"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em>The Social Construction of Free Trade: The EU, NAFTA, and Mercosur<\/em><\/a> (Princeton University Press 2006). The book was translated into Chinese in 2009, and won the American Library Association Award for an Outstanding Academic Book.<\/p>\n

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    \"\"<\/a>\u00a0Institutions and the Economy<\/a><\/em> (Polity Press 2011).<\/p>\n

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    \"31ucQDu0xbL._SY90_\"<\/a>Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession<\/a><\/em> (Princeton University Press 2011). The book has attracted considerable media attention and was featured on two radio shows: WNPR Connecticut Public Radio (Where We Live)<\/a> and WAMC Northeast Public Radio (Academic Minute).<\/p>\n

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    \"image003\"<\/a>L<\/em><\/a>i<\/em><\/a>fe Transitions in America<\/em><\/a> (Polity Press 2014).<\/p>\n

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    \"\"<\/a>Harmonizing Europe: Nation States within the Common Market<\/em><\/a> (SUNY Press 1999) .<\/p>\n

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    The Populist Logic on the Environment<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge 2024). This is a short book co-authored with Hermione Xiaoqing Zhou, a former Bates student.<\/p>\n

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    Edited Special Issues and Volumes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Benefiting from collaborations with scholars across the world, Francesco has edited or co-edited the following:<\/p>\n

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    The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press 2025). The volume has generated consideration discussion. See, for instance, this episode of International Horizons<\/a> (a CUNY podcast), the article in the Italian news outlet Il Fatto Quotidiano<\/a>, <\/em>and this episode of Maine Calling<\/em><\/a> on Maine Public Radio.<\/p>\n

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    \"\"<\/a>Standardizing the World: EU Trade Policy and the Road to Convergence<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press 2023)<\/p>\n

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    States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>(University of Toronto Press 2019).<\/p>\n

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    And special issues of the European Law Journal<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(on the spread of regional trade agreements worldwide) and Research in Political Sociology<\/em><\/a> (on the European Union and its current crises).<\/p>\n

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    Op-Eds<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Supportive of the idea that academics should reach a wider audience, Francesco has written op-eds and thought pieces in venues such as the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, <\/em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Vancouver Sun<\/a>, <\/em>and EUobserver. <\/a><\/em>He regularly appears at public events and he has written several contributions for the London School of Economics’ EUROPP <\/em><\/a>and\u00a0Researching Sociology<\/em><\/a> blogs.<\/p>\n

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    Professional Service<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Francesco is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of Economy and Society,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and on the editorial board of\u00a0Contexts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    Between 2010 and 2015, Francesco was a member of the Editorial Board of the\u00a0Journal of European Public Policy<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>Between 2015 and 2018, he served as an Elected Council Member of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Culture.<\/p>\n

    Over the years, Francesco has held various consulting positions, starting with The Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte) from 1996-2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":7930,"template":"","class_list":["post-70","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-economic-sociology","expertise-globalization","expertise-international-political-economy","expertise-political-sociology","expertise-sociology-of-culture","what-i-teach-european-studies","what-i-teach-sociology","what-i-teach-specific-comparative-sociology","what-i-teach-specific-economic-sociology","what-i-teach-specific-european-integration","what-i-teach-specific-globalization","what-i-teach-specific-political-sociology","what-i-teach-specific-sociological-theory","what-i-teach-specific-sociology-of-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"version-history":[{"count":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/70\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}