Ugo Gaudino
Politics
Ugo Gaudino is a Deakin Fellow in French Politics at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford University. After graduating from Università La Sapienza and LUISS University (both in Rome), he obtained his PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent (Canterbury). Ugo has worked in the UK since 2019, teaching at the LSE, UCL, University of Kent, and Kingston University. He was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Sussex (2025-26) and a British Academy Seed Fund in 2026. He has also spent research periods at the École Normale Supérieure and SciencesPo Paris.
During his Fellowship (2026-27), he will investigate discourse and policy on Islamism in the European Parliament, focusing on analogies and differences across extreme, radical, and mainstream right-wing French parties.
He is interested in topics such as critical security and terrorism studies; Islam and the West; history and ideology of political parties.
Selected publications:
- Islamophobia and Translations of Securitization in the UK, France, and Italy, Oxford University Press, New York, 2025.
- ‘Translation: How Securitization of Islam travels from Right-wing to Left-wing Political Parties’, Security Dialogue 56(3), 2025, 241-258.
- ‘A Populist Desecuritisation? Mélenchon, Radical Left Populism, and the fight against Islamophobia in France’, European Journal of International Security 10(2), 2025, 211-230.
- ‘Islamo-leftism’, or the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and Islamophobia in French politics’, Patterns of Prejudice 59(1), 2025, 27-51.
- ‘Conspiracy Theories as counter-securitization: Contestation and Resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic’ (with T. Aistrope), Review of International Studies, 2026, 1-26, doi:10.1017/S026021052610182X