[2] Urbinati specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions.

[4] With Andrew Arato, she was the co-editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.

[1] Prior to Columbia, she was a member of the School of Social Sciences of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.

[1] In Italy, Urbinati is permanent visiting professor at Pisa's Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant'Anna and has taught at Bocconi University in Milan, Sciences Po in Paris, and the University of Campinas in Brazil.

"[1] She is the winner of the 2008–09 Lenfest/Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award and she received the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and democratic theory for Mill on Democracy.