Francesco Trupia is Adjunct at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and postdoctoral researcher at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest. His research focuses on the intersections of democracy, memory politics and minority groups in Southeast and Eastern Europe. After obtaining his PhD in Political Philosophy from the Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski, he has conducted his postdoctoral research at the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, the Centre of Political History at the University of Antwerp, and at Humboldt University in Berlin. Francesco has also worked as a policy analyst for the Institute of European Democrats in Brussels, the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society in Pristina, the Caucasus Resource Research Centre in Yerevan.

He is the author of “Islamophobia in European Cities: Solidarities, Responses and Dilemmas for Young Balkan Muslims” (Routledge 2025), “The Balkans and Palestine: Old Frictions, New Convergences” (Palgrave 2025) and “Rethinking Subalternity in Central-East Europe” (Transnational Press London).