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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress
Sociology of civil wars, Islamic courts, armed conflict, Western military interventions

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Sahel / Mali / DRC

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress
Democratization, citizenship, political violence, identification, biometrics, cultural industries, popular representations of power

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
West Africa: Ivory Coast, Benin, Burkina Faso; East Africa and the Great Lakes: Uganda

Teachings in Africa or about Africa

• "Citizenship, Violence, and Politics in Africa" (Master's course)
• "Research Training Workshop in Africa" (Master's seminar)
• "Comparative Politics: A Global Perspective on African Political Societies" (Lecture, 2nd year, Reims)
• Winter School of Research Initiation in Africa (Lecture, 1st year, Reims)

Recent Publications

• ID Wars in Côte d’Ivoire: A Political Ethnography of Identification and Citizenship (Oxford University Press, with Armando Cutolo, forthcoming 28 June 2024)
• Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State, and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self (Routledge, May 2021)
• "A Container of Papers: Citizenship and the Making of Stateless People in the Settlement Villages of Central Côte d'Ivoire" (Annales. Histoire Sciences Sociales, 2024/1)
• "The Social Life of IDs in Côte d’Ivoire: A Visual Political Ethnography" (Visual Ethnography, vol. 12, no. 1, December 2023)

Partnerships in Africa and Elsewhere
Columbia University

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress 
History of Central Africa, colonial imaginaries (European and African), witchcraft, prisons. Ongoing: Objects and the material and symbolic life of "things" in the long term (Central Africa)

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Central Africa/Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville

Teachings in Africa or about Africa

• Gabon: Seminar at Omar Bongo University, Libreville. "Reflecting on Things: Material Histories of the Postcolonial in Central Africa" (May 2023) 
• At Sciences Po: Introduction to African History Since 1800

Recent Publications

• Science Fantasy and Desecration: Gorilla Demons in Colonial Gabon in Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny (2023)

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress 
Security, police, violence and exclusion, xenophobia, indigeneity, bureaucracy, state in action, governance of urban and metropolitan areas, history and historiography of contemporary Africa

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Nigeria, South Africa

Teachings in Africa or about Africa

• “Governing the Large Metropolis in Africa" (M1 Urban School, Sciences Po) 
• "Introduction to Political Science: Africa Module" (L1 Africa Program, Reims Campus)

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress 
Economic sovereignty (in Morocco) 

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Tunisia/Morocco

Partnerships in Africa and Elsewhere
CRESC - Rabat UIR (International University of Rabat)
Center for Global Studiesudies

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Development, Environment, Labour Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy

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Development Economics, Culture, Gender, Applied Microeconomics

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Medicine and public health in colonial and postcolonial African contexts; relations between human health, environmental change, and global social and political issues

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales))
Cameroon

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress 
Armed conflicts, politics of great powers and emerging countries in sub-Saharan Africa, international interventions

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Horn of Africa/Central Africa 

Teachings in Africa or about Africa

• Comparative Politics (Reims) 
• Africa in International Reconfigurations (Reims)

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress 
Sociologie des groupes djihadistes en Afrique,  Politiques de sécurité

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress
ERC research project on the end of slavery in the Maghreb

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
North Africa/Maghreb

Recent Publications

• Un esclave entre deux empires (Seuil, March 2023)

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress
Human rights and economic globalization (with a focus on the exploitation of natural resources, especially in sub-Saharan Africa)

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Ghana/RDC/South Africa

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress
Socio-history of voting, identification policies, citizenship, conflicts, armed violence

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Uganda 

Recent Publications

• Sandrine Perrot, Gerald Owachi, "Negotiating Indigenousness: Citizenship and the Struggle for Papers of the Maragoli Community in Uganda," in Identification and Citizenship in Africa (Routledge, 2021)
• Sandrine Perrot, "A Kipande for Ugandans? The Aborted 1947 'Identity Card for Africans'," in Identification and Citizenship in Africa (Routledge, 2021)
• Sandrine Perrot, Gerald Owachi, "The Biometric Registration of 'Others': Negotiated Indigeneity, Citizenship, and the Struggle for Papers of the Maragoli Community in Uganda," Genèses, 2018

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress 
Civil-military relations, racialization of peacekeeping

Terrains de recherche en Afrique (mention pays et autres échelles)
Mali, Central African Republic

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress
Migration policies of Horn of Africa countries and European externalization of migration control [“MAGYC” project “Migration Governance and Asylum Crises” (Grant Agreement: 822806) (2018-2023)]

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Horn of Africa/Sudan

Recent Publications

• Hélène Thiollet and Thibaut Jaulin, "Migration Asylum and International Interventions in the Horn of Africa," in The Routledge Handbook on the Horn of Africa (2022)

Partnerships in Africa and Elsewhere

• Collaborations with Sudan (CEDEJ-Khartoum and University of Khartoum) for research on asylum policies in the Horn
• Participates in an ANR on Sudan
• Partnership with UMIFRE: IFRA, CFEE, and CEDEJ-K in particular (also with IFPO) within the framework of the MAGYC project.

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Research Fields
History of Europe (18-20 centuries), Colonial History , History of Science and Knowledge, History of Nation and Nationalism

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress 
Xenophobia and anti-xenophobia, nation-building in South Africa, political sociology of educational institutions (attitudes and political behaviors, activism, education and political pedagogies), Othering and social state in European and African contexts, Control of appearances in school settings (reproduction of domination relations of gender, class, race, age, etc., politicization and mobilization, construction of beauty standards)

Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
South Africa (Johannesburg)

Teachings in Africa or about Africa

• Comparative Politics Methodology Conference with EURAF program in 2021 
• Teaching Assistant for three Master's courses (one common training course with Richard Banégas and two optional courses with Ian Hopkins) in 2020 and 2021

Recent Publications

• Collective book States and the Making of Others

Partnerships in Africa and Elsewhere
Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Johannesburg (CERT) and previously at the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Foundation (FMSH), as well as the University of Oxford (DPIR)

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Research Fields in Africa (mention countries and other scales)
Nigeria (Lagos) 

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Individual or Collective Research Topics in Progress
Humanitarian diplomacy and public communication