Susana Narotzky

Susana Narotzky is professor of social anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Prof. Narotzky studied geography and history at the University of Barcelona. She pursued a PhD in social anthropology within the programme of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research, New York, completing her degree in 1990, while also completing a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Barcelona. She was appointed associate professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1993 and became full professor in 2006 at the University of Barcelona. Susana Narotzky has received a number of awards and expressions of peer recognition including a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for collaborative research (2000), an appointment as member of the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton (2019-2020), and membership of the Academia Europaea (2021-). She was awarded the Spanish National Prize for Research in the Humanities (2020) and has received three times the five-year Fellowship Award ICREA-Academia, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Generalitat de Catalunya. She is former President of the European Association of Social Anthropology and has served as Secretary of the American Anthropological Association. She has been principal investigator of an ERC Advanced Grant to study the effects of austerity on Southern European livelihoods. Her work is inspired by theories of critical political economy, moral economies, feminist economics and value regimes, and seeks to produce a grounded model of social reproduction processes.

Mandate ERC Scientific Council: 1 Jan 2026  - 31 December 2029