26 sandro di domenico from sicily to hong kong, no mafia is infallible. an oxfordian conversation with federico varese Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology at the Sociology faculty of the University of Oxford. Born in Ferrara on November 12, 1965, after his high school studies and an International Baccalaureate at Lester Bowles Pearson College in Vancouver, he graduated in Political Science at the University of Bologna, earned a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge and published, in 2001, his doctoral thesis in Sociology, at Oxford, under the title The Russian Mafia. Thanks to this book, published by the prestigious Oxford University Press, came first the collaboration, and then the friendship, with John Le Carré, whose estate in Cornwall he is often a guest. Prior to his current assignment at Oxford, he taught Criminology at Yale and Williams College. He published Mafias on the move (2013) and Mafia life (2018). Varese, whose works have been translated and distributed throughout the world, is also Director of the Extra-Legal Governance Institute at the University founded by Henry II of England, and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. Over the years he was author of several contributions for Italian and international newspapers, still collaborating with La Stampa in Italy and with the Times Literary Supplement in UK.
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