Martín Hernán Di Marco

Martín Hernán Di Marco is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Governance and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University, campus The Hague. His research focuses on violence perpetration, including intimate partner violence, femicide, male-on-male homicide, and sexual offenses.

He holds a BA in Sociology from Buenos Aires University, an MSc in Epidemiology from Lanús National University, and a PhD in Social Sciences from Buenos Aires University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, and an ASEF bursary recipient in 2019, hosted by Prof. Tit Albreht at the Institute of Public Health of Slovenia. Dr. Di Marco currently serves as Secretary of Working Group 11 on Violence and Society and as Treasurer of the Research Committee on Biography and Society of the International Sociological Association. He is also Managing Editor of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

Research projects: Dr. Di Marco’s research projects aim to understand the drivers of violence, the factors contributing to non-intervention by social networks such as bystanders and kin, and the pathways of desistance and persistence. His work explores violence performance through biographical approaches including life course and narrative methods, examines desistance pathways including secondary and tertiary mechanisms, investigates bystander inaction with network analysis focused on close relations of perpetrators, and addresses broader macro-social processes that influence both violence and intervention dynamics.