Massimo Prearo is a researcher in political science, scientific coordinator of the Research Center PoliTeSse – Politics and Theories of Sexuality at the University of Verona in Italy and co-chair of the Standing group Gender and Politics of the Italian Political Science Association. With a French dissertation (EHESS), he is better known in the Roman language parts of Europe until now, linked to his influential book publications in Italian and French. He is working mostly on anti-gender politics and movements at the moment, but was also very active in research on LGBTI+ mobilizations, migrants and asylum seekers, and sexual equality politics more broadly. He is one of the most knowledgeable scholars on the role of the Vatican and varieties of Catholicism on anti-gender campaigns in Europe. He succeeded in showing how Vatican politics are linked with the wider anti-gender camp in which both the conservative neo-Catholic movement and gender critical feminists have played key roles.
He is also a prolific translator between the French, Italian and English language domains for research articles in his field. He is currently involved in the institutionalization of an Italian network of gender and sexuality studies.
