Anna Bonalume

Anna Bonalume is a philosophy lecturer, documentary filmmaker and researcher. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2018), where she defended a thesis on the pragmatist aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy in light of Peirce (supervised by Marc Crépon), and is an associate researcher at CEVIPOF. A graduate of the Erasmus Mundus master's programme in French and German philosophy (Université Toulouse II,UFSCar Brazil, University of Wuppertal), her work sits at the intersection of political philosophy, populist movements and the contemporary transformations of democratic space.
Her research focuses on populism, the radical right and European political dynamics, approached through both theoretical frameworks and documentary and journalistic fieldwork.She is the author of Un mois avec un populiste (Pauvert / Fayard, 2022) and contributed to L'Empire : centre et périphéries (L'Harmattan, 2022). She has produced studies for think tanks including the Fondapol, the RobertSchuman Foundation, Institut Montaigne and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Her documentary Le Cas Meloni (France 5, Le Monde en Face, 2026)
extends this inquiry into the realignment of the European right.
A journalist for Les Échos Weekend, she is a regular contributor to ARTE, LCI and France Info, and has written for Le Point, The Guardian, Le Monde, Esprit and La Stampa. She has held communications roles at the European Commission and the UN-COP21, and served as project manager at the Columbia Global Center Paris. She currently teaches political philosophy at Sciences Po Paris and video journalism at the Sciences Po School of Journalism. Previously, she taught philosophy of science and moral philosophy at Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) and the Institut Catholique de Paris.