Alessandro Mulieri is a Directeur de recherche at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), at TRIANGLE in Lyon and Chercheur associé at CEVIPOF (Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po). He teaches political theory and the history of political thought at Université Paris Cité and Sciences Po Paris.
He was trained in intellectual history, political science, and philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, the London School of Economics, and KU
Leuven (Belgium). Before joining the CNRS, he was a Global Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and at Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice. He also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at KU Leuven for the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), and was director of the Peace Studies graduate program at the American University of Rome in 2019–2020.
He has taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania, KU Leuven, Sciences Po Paris, and the University of Amsterdam. He has also been a long-term visiting scholar at the Université de Strasbourg, Humboldt Universität in Berlin, and Columbia University in New York.
His research focuses primarily on the history of political thought and political theory, with particular attention to the history of democracy, late medieval and early modern political and republican thought, and Counter -Enlightenment political thought in the twentieth century. He is currently working on a project dedicated to theories of otherness in medieval and early modern political thought. In addition to his academic work, he is committed to sharing research with a broader audience. In 2023, he published a book (in Italian) tracing the history of premodern political thought through thinkers who advocated for pro-woman ideas.
His research has been published in journals such as European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Storia e politica, Raisons politiques, History of European Ideas, Philosophy and Social Criticism.