Rebecca Ghio

Biography

Rebecca Ghio is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on the transformation of higher education and lifelong learning systems in Europe, examined through the analytical lenses of comparative political economy and institutional change.

She earned her Ph.D. in economic sociology and labor studies from the University of Milan, where she collaborates with the Milan Higher Education Observatory (MHEO). Previously, she served as a research assistant working on tertiary student trajectories.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Ghio's project will examine how European higher education policies have shaped graduates’ subjective social status and, in turn, new forms of social division. Moving beyond the simple “college divide” theories, her project investigates how policies of expansion and stratification of higher education systems, aiming to match the needs of the knowledge economy, have generated a fragmentation in social status perception among European tertiary graduates.

This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Milan
• Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University