Sabrina Stallone is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (summa cum laude) with a Diploma Supplement in Gender Studies. Her dissertation dealt with growth-oriented urban future scenarios in Zurich, how they come to be known in present everyday life as well as how they are "fleshed out", reimagined and contested by local inhabitants along affective perceptions of crowdedness, containment and participation. Centering a feminist approach to the anthropology of planning and the future, her ethnographic research on Zurich's land reserves has focused on both the opportunities and inequalities that are created or exacerbated in processes of urban future-making for marginalized urban subjects. For this project, she was awarded a Doc.CH excellence scholarship by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). For her dissertation, she won the Barbara Lischetti Prize in 2024, which is awarded every other year to cutting-edge research in the field of feminist and gender studies.

Sabrina completed an MA in Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where she received a pre-doctoral fellowship from the School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES) and worked as an assistant at the Centre for European Studies (ACES). Previously, she had studied English as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2022, she was a visiting fellow at the Department of Geography at Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Anthropology Program at City University New York's Graduate Center.

Her research interests include:

  • anthropology of the future and planning
  • space and gender
  • urban citizenship and migration
  • anthropology of infrastructure
  • social movements in the city

So far, her research has taken place in urban contexts in Italy, Palestine, Israel and Switzerland. Currently, she is working on a new research project that centers speculation, the promise of connectivity and infrastructural incompletion in Sicily.