Filippo Menga

Filippo Menga is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Bergamo, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Political Geography. Prior to joining the University of Bergamo in 2021, he was Lecturer and then Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Reading in Great Britain, where he also led the Human Geography Research Cluster, and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow. Before this, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Geography of the University of Manchester.

His works have been published in a wide range of leading academic journals, including Political Geography, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space Geoforum, Nationalities Papers, Water Alternatives, the Journal of Political Ecology, Geographical Review and Development and Change. He is the author of Thirst (Verso, 2024), Power and Water in Central Asia (Routledge, 2018), and co-editor (with Erik Swyngedouw), of Water, Technology and the Nation-State (Earthscan, 2018).

In 2018 he was awarded the Scopus-Fulbright Prize as the best early career researcher in the field of social sciences in the United Kingdom.