• Ph.D. - Politics (2024)

University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)

• Master's Degree - Media (2017)

Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)

• Bachelor's Degree - Communication Studies (2015)

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (USA)

• Teaching Assistant Professor – Portland State University (09/2024–Ongoing)
  Courses: Migration, Membership, and Law - Multiculturalism in Europe - The European Union - Comparative Law - Introduction to Law - Introduction to the Supreme Court - Social Science Methods - The Global City Series Freshman Writing - Thesis Writing
• Lecturer - University of California, Santa Cruz (01/2022–09/2024)
  Courses: Intro to Rhetoric and Inquiry (Freshman Writing) - Introduction to Legal Studies - Comparative Law.
• Lecturer – California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (09/2023–09/2024)
  Courses: Comparative Law.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant - University of California, Santa Cruz (09/2018–12/2021)
  Courses: Introduction to Politics - Introduction to Legal Studies - Comparative Politics - Political Economy of Race – Comparative European Politics - Politics of Social Policies - Comparative Latin American Politics - Politics of East Asia - Politics of the Middle East - Territorial Politics.
• Guest Lecturer
  Territorial Governance in Italy 0- Local Government (Fall 2022) Università di Padova (IT)
  Federalism: Historical Perspectives - European Politics (Winter & Fall 2021) UC Santa Cruz
  Racism & Economic Inequality - Europe in Political Economy of Race (Winter 2019) UC Santa Cruz
  The Mediterranean Welfare State - Politics of Social Polices (Fall 2019) UC Santa Cruz

Prof. Ganis' research interests include regionalism, sub-state nations, territorial politics, law and society, cultural identity, migration, and European comparative politics.

He has published his work in the journals Regional Studies and Local Development, Social Sciences, Nazioni e Regioni (Italian), and Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. His dissertation project is titled 'Explaining Cross-Regional Variation in Territorial Governance: The Case of the Italian Regions' and focuses on how localized historical legacies affect territorial reforms impacting the democratic distribution of resources across Italy.

He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Università di Padova, Italy (October 2022– January 2023), where he developed a qualitative research design gathering expert interviews and archival data to understand territorial policy-making at the regional level.

He also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of California, Santa Cruz (January 2019 – December 2021) on the project "Mesut Özil and the Politics of German Identity" under the supervision of PI Dr. Gehring.

○        Ganis, A. (2025), The Role of Regulatory Modes in Regional Governance: Insights from the Delrio Reform in Italy, Regional Studies and Local Development, Padova University Press.

○        Ganis, A., McKay, S. et al. (2023), Belonging and its Barriers: A Critical Perspective of Latiné and Mixed-Status Families’ Experiences. Social Sciences - Special Issue "New Trends in Community-Engaged Research, Volume 2: New Voices, Critical Approaches".

○        Ganis, A. (2019), Nazionalismo Sub-Statale di Fronte all’Alterità: Identità Mediate in Friuli, Nazioni e Regioni, 19:14.

○        Ganis, A. (2019), The Global in the Life of a Small Town: The Case of Udine, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Brill, 18:1-2.

Other Publications:

○        Ganis, A. (2024)"Crisis, Enclosure, Europe, Migrant Labor, Narrative Economics, Power, Regime." Keywords in Political Economy: A Critical Glossary for Critical Minds. University of California, Santa Cruz. Available at: [https://keywords.sites.ucsc.edu/]