Andrea Cossu (PhD, Trento 2007) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. He has done postdoctoral research at the University of Trento and Yale University, where he was a Visiting Fellow during the 2008-9 Academic Year. His research focuses mostly on political culture in Italy, with a particular focus on memory cultures and conflicts over the past.
He has written on classical and contemporary social theory, the sociology of culture, and the sociology of music and the arts. His first book, It Ain’t Me, Babe: Bob Dylan and the Performance of Authenticity, came out in 2012 for Paradigm. His current project (with Matteo Bortolini) is a socio-historical analysis of the rise of the sociological profession in Italy after the end of World War Two: Italian Sociology 1945-2000: An Institutional and Professional Profile (forthcoming, Palgrave-MacMillan).