Alexandra Ana (UdeM)

Alexandra Ana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université de Montréal. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology with distinction (cum laude) from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 2019. Her dissertation, focused on the NGO-ization of feminist movements in Belgium and Romania, was published by Palgrave in 2024. Following her doctoral studies, she became a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where she investigated resistance to anti-gender mobilizations and the role of coalitions in a comparative study between France and Romania. In 2023, she received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) for a project titled “Strange Tandems and Unholy Alliances: The Role of Coalitions in Conservative Movements,” which involved a comparative study of the UK, France, and Romania. She also contributed to a collective research project examining the current state of anti-gender campaigns in Belgium and their interactions at the international and European levels. This project was funded by the Institute for the Equality of Women and Men, Belgium’s federal institution promoting gender equality. Between 2018 and 2022, she taught at Sciences Po Paris as a Teaching Fellow.

Her research, characterized by an interdisciplinary, comparative, multi-level, and intersectional approach, focuses on the sociology of public action, social movements, systems of inequality, gender and sexuality studies, visual sociology, and decolonial theories.