Welcome to Four Professors Joining Sciences Po's International Visiting Programmes

This year, we are welcoming three scholars from the US and one from Palestine, whose research spans constitutional law, democratic citizenship, health inequalities, and authoritarianism. Meet some of our visiting researchers for 2025–2026!

Sciences Po's international vision

Sciences Po's international policy is a key aspect of its institutional strategy.

With nearly 480 partnerships on every continent, including 42 dual degree programmes, an extremely diverse student body of around 50% international students and 150 nationalities, an internationally facing curriculum and world-class social science research, the international policy at Sciences Po is a form of academic diplomacy in action. It is no surprise that 35% of our graduates opt to work abroad in the first two years after their graduation.

One of the many facets of this international vision lies in our research visiting programmes, designed to recruit and host top-level international researchers in our 11 research centres.

Four researchers are joining our two international visiting programmes

These programmes are managed and funded by the International Affairs Office.

The Global Visiting Faculty Programme

Launched in 2021 and open to outstanding candidates from all disciplines and all continents, this programme selects two researchers every year to spend a semester at Sciences Po.

Meet our two research visitors for 2025-2026:

This autumn, Professor Sanaa Alsarghali joined the Law School's Research Centre where she teaches two courses “Constitutional Challenges in the Middle East” and “Women’s Participation in Constitution-Making in the Middle East” while completing her book, Square Pegs and Round Holes: The Story of the Palestinian Political System. Her research focuses on the application of the Semi-Presidential System in Palestine and the constitution-making process. Sanaa Alsarghali holds a PhD from Lancaster University (UK), making her the first Palestinian woman to earn a PhD in Constitutional Law. In August 2025, she was part of the Drafting Committee of the Interim Constitution for the State of Palestine, in preparation for the recognition conference. She is among the contributors of States of Exception or Exceptional States: Law, Politics and Giorgio Agamben in the Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2022).

In spring 2026, Professor Andrew Perrin will be joining the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). He specialises in the cultural and social study of democracy. His recent research covers public opinion, letters to the editor, and democratic citizenship. He got his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and he is currently the SNF Agora Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, while also serving as Sociology department chair. His latest book is entitled American Democracy: From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter (Polity, 2014).

The Sciences Po Paris Visiting Fellowship

Founded in 2025 and open to outstanding candidates from all disciplines currently affiliated to American universities, this programme invites two researchers every year to spend a semester at Sciences Po.

Meet the first two research visitors for 2025-2026:

For the Fall Semester, Professor Sanyu A. Mojola joined the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). Sanyu A. Mojola is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies at Princeton University. Her mixed methods research examines how societies produce health and illness, with a particular focus on the HIV/AIDS pandemic as it unfolds in various settings such as Kenya, South Africa, and the US. She has published Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS (University of California Press, 2014), and her upcoming book is titled Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol (University of California Press, November 2025).

In January 2026, Professor Rachel Beatty Riedl will be joining the Centre for International Studies (CERI). She is the Peggy J. Koenig ’78 Director of the Center on Global Democracy in the Brooks School of Public Policy, and a Professor in the Brooks School and Department of Government at Cornell University. Her research expertise is on democracy and authoritarianism globally, and particularly across Africa. Her research work focuses on questions of regime transition, participation, institutions, political parties, religion, and local governance. Rachel Beatty Riedl recently led the USAID’s Democracy, Rights and Governance learning agenda “Opening Democratic Spaces” research report. Her publications include Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and From Pews to Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019). 

We wish them a fruitful and rewarding stay.