Formerly full professor at University “Sapienza” of Rome, at first in the faculty of Sociology, and then in Communication Science, and, recently, in the Faculty of Political Science, Sociology and Communication Science.
Editor in Chief of the quarterly “The Sociological Critique”.
She founded and directed the Master Course on Immigrants and Refugees at University “La Sapienza” Rome, Italy and for a decade she was Coordinator of the PhD in “Social Theory and Research” at the same university by holding at the same time the chair of Vice President of the Union of Roma City Universities in Social Sciences, Arts and Environment (SUAA).
She was Coordinator of the AIS, Italian Sociological Association.