Biography
Juan Masullo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan and an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University. He also serves as co-editor of Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, the biannual publication of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section.
Juan’s research integrates diverse methods and forms of evidence—observational and experimental—often grounded in immersive fieldwork. He has conducted extensive research in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, and Italy, exploring how individuals and communities make decisions amid violence and how their lived experiences shape their political views and preferences toward peace, security, and democracy.
Methodologically, Juan is passionate about qualitative and mixed-methods research. He has years of experience conducting, teaching, and writing about fieldwork, interviewing, case study research, process tracing, and mixed-methods research. His article on aligning interviewing and process tracing, published in Sociological Methods & Research, received the 2025 APSA Alexander George Best Article Award, while his mixed-methods paper on the historical legacies of World War II partisan resistance in Italy, published in Comparative Political Studies, won the 2025 NEPS Medal for Best Publication in Peace Science. He regularly offers PhD-level methods training across Europe—in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom Italy—helping early-career researchers sharpen their methodological craft and connect it to meaningful empirical work.
Before joining the University of Milan and Leiden University, Juan taught and conducted research at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and Nuffield College, at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science (BIGSSS), and at Yale University’s Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence (OCV). He earned his Ph.D. from the European University Institute. You can learn more about his research, including publications and current projects, here: www.juanmasullo.com
