University of the Basque Country (Spain)
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https://www.iisj.net/en/profesores/perugorria-ignacia
Ignacia Perugorría is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). She is Co-Director of the Collective Identity Research Center (CEIC) and Coordinator of GAIT–Gizarte Aldaketa Ikerketa Taldea, a high-performance research group within the Basque University System, where she leads the research line on Social Mobilization, Civic Engagement, and Popular Culture. She is also co-founder and coordinator of the New Far Right Global Research Network, affiliated with the International Sociological Association’s Research Committees on Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47) and Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48).
She earned her PhD in Social Sciences from EHU, her MA in Sociology from Rutgers University (USA), and her BA (Licenciatura) in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) — all three awarded with the highest distinctions conferred by these institutions, including the Extraordinary Doctoral Award and the Undergraduate Excellence Award.
She is a Fulbright Scholar and has received fellowships from the Institute of International Education (USA) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, as well as grants from the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). She was also named ‘Basque Ambassador’ by the Bizkaia Talent Program of the Provincial Council of Biscay.
Throughout her career, she has taught over twenty undergraduate and graduate courses on both theory and quantitative and qualitative methods in the United States, Latin America, and Spain. She currently serves as Academic Coordinator of the Social Research Methods Area, overseeing all undergraduate methodological courses in the BAs in Sociology and Political Science at EHU. She is also supervising three MA theses in the International Master’s in Sociology of Law (Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, IISL, EHU-ISA) and two PhD dissertations, one of them undertaken by a former Oñati MA student.
Ignacia’s research lies at the intersection of social movement studies, the sociology of culture, and political sociology, integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches with visual ethnography and social network analysis. She has contributed to more than a dozen international research projects funded by Latin American, US, and European agencies, and her articles have been published in leading journals, including Politics and Religion, Current Sociology, Revista Española de Sociología (RES), Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS), Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Política y Sociedad, and Recerca. She has also co-edited two special issues in Current Sociology (one forthcoming) and a volume in the Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture (Routledge/Mobilization: An International Quarterly), one of the foremost academic collections in the field of contentious politics. Her monograph The Politics of Celebration. Festive Networks, Intersectional Activisms, and Ephemeral Urban Commons in Bilbao has been accepted for publication with Routledge (forthcoming 2026).
MA theses supervised in previous cohorts of the International Master’s in Sociology of Law (Oñati):
- Hue Thien Ta (The Netherlands)
Surfing against Inequality: Sri Lankan Women Reclaim the Sea
(Main supervisor; 2nd supervisor: Marta Bucholc)
– Grade: Outstanding
– Winner of the André-Jean Arnaud Prize for the Best MA Thesis (2024–2025)
– Winner of the Manolo Calvo Award (2024–2025)
- Teresa Casas Grille (Spain)
La construcción de agendas en el discurso legislativo. Ley del solo sí es sí: un análisis de las estrategias discursivas y sus efectos políticos
(Sole supervisor)
– Grade: Outstanding
– Winner of the André-Jean Arnaud Prize for the Best MA Thesis (2024–2025)
- Hannah Atzwanger (Austria)
Governing Public-Private Partnerships in Sustainable Urban Development: Legal Challenges in Affordable Housing and Social Equity
(Co-supervisor: Karolina Kocemba)
– Grade: Outstanding
– Winner of the Mariella Carrino Grant for the Promotion of Socio-Legal Research (2024–2025)
- Rosie Proctor (Australia)
Disengaged and Disorganised? How Young Hospitality Workers are “Finding” their Voice through Confrontational Unionism: A Case Study of Australia’s “First Digital Union” Hospo Voice
(Main supervisor; 2nd supervisor: Martin Ramstedt)
– Grade: Outstanding