Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia
June, 2021 - July, 2022
Visiting Professor
A graduate of Sciences Po, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia holds an appointment as a Professor at Rutgers University where she teaches various graduate courses on ethics, security and immigration, and the EU. Among her numerous fellowships and grants, she has been awarded the George Soros Distinguished Visiting Chair in the School of Public Policy at Central European University; the Buffett Visiting Chaired Professor at Northwestern University; and the Fulbright Commission’s EU-US Transatlantic Research Fellowship.
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia has also served as a Visiting Professor at New York University, the Australian National University and at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Among her research and administrative accomplishments, she has co-directed two international research networks - the ISI (Immigration & Security Initiative) Transatlantic Research Network, and the SOMI (Securitization of Migrant Integration) Research Network.
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia has published seven books in English and French. Her more recent publications include Frontiers of Fears: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe (Cornell University Press, 2012) and How Does it Feel to Be a Threat? Migrant Mobilization and Securitization in the US and Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, NYU Series, 2015). Her latest book, entitled Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society, will be published by Cornell University Press in December 2022.
research interests
Arian Chebel d’Appollonia’s research interests include exclusionary discourses and ideologies (such as racism, migrant phobia, antisemitism, and anti-Muslim narratives), as well as discriminatory policies (from restrictive immigration policies to the security governance of minorities).
In her last book, Violent America, she analyzes why and how various ethno-racial groups use different forms of violence to achieve instrumental goals. Rather than focusing on ethno-racial prejudice as the main source of violence in America, she explored the effect of violence on ethno-racial identification. Combining various approaches (such as studies of racial formation, studies of social movements, intergroup relations, and identity politics), she contends that in a multiracial society we need to question the conventional understanding about the dynamics of intergroup relations by analyzing how each group engages in a cycle of reactive identification
Research project.s you intend to pursue at the CEE
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia’s current research project focuses on the role of exclusion in the democratization process, and the subsequent political issues it generates for democratic representation. It therefore relates to the existing research projects conducted by CEE members on democratic representation, whose expertise will provide her insightful feedback.
