Flaminia Saccà is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, where she teaches "Sociology of Gender Violence" and “Political cultures, gender and power asymmetries” in the MA Course of Gender studies, cultures and policies for media and communication. She is vice-president of the International Sociological Association – Research Committee Sociotechnics – Sociological Practices (ISA RC26), member of the Scientific Committee of the Section of Political Sociology of the Italian Sociological Association and member of the Board of the European Sociological Association – Research Network of Political Sociology (ESA RN32). She is the scientific coordinator of several research projects and networks. Her research interests deal, in particular, with sexist stereotypes and prejudices, with the social representation of gender-based violence and the power relations between genders.