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Fariba Adelkhah

FNSP Research Professor

Research Interest(s): Anthropology of mobility (migration, contraband, exile), transnational religious and commercial networks, politics, land tenure issues

Discipline(s): Political Science, Anthropology

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Afghanistan, Iran

Language(s): Persian, English, Dari (Afghan Persian)

Andrew Aguilar

Associate Research Fellow

Research Interest(s): Religious integration policy, Islam in Europe, Security institutions, immigration

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): Western Europe

Country(ies): France, United Kingdom

Thesis topic:

Bayram Balci

CNRS Research Engineer, HDR

Research Interest(s): Islamism, migrations, pilgrimages, identity conflicts.

Discipline(s): Political Science, Sociology

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Security, defence, nuclear weapons, Violence, war and peace

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, Global realm , Russia, Middle East

Country(ies): Turkey

Jean-Philippe Béja

CNRS Emeritus Research Professor

Research Interest(s): Political regime, dissidence, civil society, social movements, memory

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): East Asia

Country(ies): China, Hong Kong

Language(s): Chinese, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian

Alix Chaplain

Associate Research Fellow

Discipline(s): Sociology

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, State, political regimes, mobilisations

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Lebanon

Thesis topic:

Maya Chehade

Associate Research Fellow

Research Interest(s): Forced migration, refugees, Middle East, entrepreneurial trajectories, international development policy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Economy

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Egypt, Jordan, Syria

Language(s): Arabic, French, English, German, Spanish

Thesis topic:

Hugo d'Assenza-David

PhD Candidate

Research Interest(s): Policy, Governance, Risk, Planning, State, Engineering Sciences, Cities and Territories, Anthropocene

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Public Policy

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Environmental risks and planetary limits, Science, technology and power

Geographical Area(s): Western Europe

Country(ies): France, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Language(s): French, English, Spanish

Thesis topic:

Quand la matière compte : la construction du risque métabolique et la gouvernance des planifications territoriales dans les régions de Paris et Amsterdam, supervised by Eric Verdeil & Olivier Borraz

Fatoumata Diallo

PhD Candidate

Research Interest(s): Public action, BRT, local governance, public policy transfer

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics, Public Policy

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): Southern Africa, West Africa, Western Europe

Country(ies): France, Nigeria, South Africa

Thesis topic:

The differentiated translations of Bus Rapid Transit. A comparative examination of the implementation of a traveling policy model at the local level in Cape Town, Lagos and Greater Paris, supervised by Laurent Fourchard & Patrick Le Galès

Jérôme Doyon

Assistant Professor (CPJ)

Research Interest(s): Authoritarian regimes, Chinese Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): East Asia

Country(ies): China

Language(s): French, English, Chinese

Mohamed El Sayeh

Postdoctoral Researcher

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Laurent Fourchard

FNSP Research Professor, HDR

Research Interest(s): Historical sociology of the state, street level bureaucracy, policing, government of urban and metropolitan areas, unionism, history and historiography of contemporary Africa.

Discipline(s): History, Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Violence, war and peace, Art, humanities, and international research

Geographical Area(s): Southern Africa, West Africa

Country(ies): Nigeria, South Africa

Language(s): English, French, Italian

Anouk Gohier

PhD Candidate

Research Interest(s): Urban energy governance, infrastructures, transformations of socio-technical systems

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): Environmental risks and planetary limits, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Science, technology and power

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia

Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia

Language(s): French, English, Dutch, Russian

Thesis topic:

From Air Pollution Crises to Energy Transitions: Urban Politics and Governance in Bishkek and Ulaanbaatar, supervised by Bayram Balci

Yuyang Hong

PhD Candidate

Research Interest(s): China's Foreign Policy, Sino-Taiwanese Relations, Diaspora Diplomacy, Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): East Asia

Country(ies): China, Taiwan

Language(s): Chinese, English, French, Southern Min (Taiwanese Hokkien)

Thesis topic:

Les rouages invisibles du rouleau compresseur chinois : les rôles des « bureaucrates au niveau de la rue » chinois dans la formulation et l'exécution de la politique chinoise envers Taiwan/The hidden cogs of China's powerhouse: how Chinese street-level bureaucrats in local Taiwan Affairs Office influence and execute China's policy on Taiwan, supervised by Frnaçoise Mengin & Jérôme Doyon

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

Associate Researcher

Research Interest(s): Italian politics, populism, the Left in Europe

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Sociology

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Science, technology and power

Geographical Area(s): Global realm , Middle East, North Africa, Western Europe

Country(ies): France, Norway

Language(s): French, Norwegian, German, Arabic

Riva Kastoryano

CNRS Emeritus Research Professor

Research Interest(s): Nationalism, identity, community, minorities, diaspora

Discipline(s): Sociology

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology

Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): Central and Eastern Europe, Global realm , Middle East, Western Europe

Language(s): French, English, Spanish, Turkish, German

Quentin Lacmari

PhD Candidate

Research Interest(s): Precarious work, moral economy, labor organisation and collective action, urban metabolism and networks

Discipline(s): Sociology

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Global economy, capitalism, extraction, State, political regimes, mobilisations

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Jordan

Language(s): French, English, Arabic, Persian, Spanish

Thesis topic:

Le travail en mouvement(s). Précarité, mobilité et (dé)mobilisation des livreurs de plateforme et collecteurs de déchets à Amman, supervised by Éric Verdeil & Lilian Mathieu

Denis Lacorne

FNSP Emeritus Research Professor

Research Interest(s): National identities, multiculturalism, religion and secularism, tolerance schemes

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics, Political Philosophy, Political Theory

Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): North America, Western Europe

Country(ies): United States of America

Language(s): English

Thomas Lacroix

CNRS Research Professor

Research Interest(s): Theories of transnationalism, its relations to state and sovereignty; Formation of a local governance of international migration through the policies of cities and city networks undertaken with the support of international organisations.

Discipline(s): Political Science, Geography

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Theory

Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): North Africa, South Asia, Western Europe

Country(ies): Algeria, France, India, Morocco, United Kingdom