Dr. Lucia Pradella

Biography

Lucia Pradella studied Philosophy and Social Sciences with a focus on Migration Studies at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and Humboldt University Berlin. She collaborated on a project for the historical-critical edition of Marx’s and Engels’s complete works at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She completed her PhD in the history of political economy and globalization through a joint program at the University of Naples Federico II and Paris X Nanterre. Dr. Pradella has conducted postdoctoral research in the Sociology of Economic Processes and Work at Ca’ Foscari, teaching International Political Economy, Migration, and Welfare Policies at institutions such as Brunel University, SOAS, and Ca’ Foscari. She is a Research Associate at SOAS's Department of Development Studies and the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. Since joining King’s College London in 2015, her research interests have encompassed International Political Economy, Labor, Production, Poverty in Europe, and the implications of imperialism and anti-imperialism. Pradella actively engages with public discourse on contemporary political economy issues and serves on various academic councils and editorial boards. Her published works primarily focus on the theoretical and historical foundations of International Political Economy and the socioeconomic dynamics of the global order.

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