CV Research Juliette Galonnier

CURRICULUM VITAE
Juliette GALONNIER
PhD Candidate
Born on January 24, 1990
[email protected]
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Northwestern University, Sociology
Sciences Po Paris, OSC
EDUCATION
Sept 2012 – …
SCIENCES PO PARIS AND NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Joint PhD program in Sociology between Sciences Po
Paris and Northwestern University under the supervision
of Marco Oberti and Carolyn Chen. Working on the
process of conversion to Islam in the United States and in
France, paying special attention to “white converts” and
how they navigate race and religion in contexts were
Islam has become racialized.
Oct 2011 – …
SCIENCES PO PARIS
PhD program in Sociology, at the Observatoire
Sociologique du Changement (OSC, Observatory for
Social Change, CNRS-Sciences Po), under the supervision
of Marco Oberti.
Sept 2010 – June 2011
SCIENCES PO PARIS
Research Master in Sociology.
M.A. Dissertation on the segregation of upper-class
Muslims in Aligarh (India), under the direction of
Christophe Jaffrelot and Marco Oberti.
M.A. Graduation with the highest distinction (summa
cum laude).
Sept 2009 – June 2010
SCIENCES PO PARIS
1st year of a Research Master in Comparative Politics at
Sciences Po. Fields of interest: South Asian politics,
Hindu-Muslim relations in India, ethnic violence.
July 2008 – May 2009
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY (DELHI)
Exchange program at Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU), New Delhi (India).
B.A. graduation from Sciences Po with a high distinction
(cum laude).
Oct 2006 – June 2008
SCIENCES PO PARIS
1st and 2nd years of a 5-year graduate program at the
Political Studies Institute of Paris (Sciences Po). Asia
program, Hindi language. 2nd year passed with
distinction.
PUBLICATIONS
“Les convertis blancs à l’Islam: un cas limite de la racialisation du religieux” in Le religieux au
prisme de l’ethnicisation et de la racisation, Actes de colloque, Nanterre: PUPO, forthcoming
“When ‘White Devils’ Join the Deen: White American Converts to Islam and the Experience of
Non-Normative Whiteness,” Notes&Documents, Sciences Po Paris/OSC, forthcoming
“The Enclave, the Citadel and the Ghetto: The Three-fold Segregation of Upper-Class Muslims
in India,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, forthcoming
(with Violette Graff), “Hindu-Muslim Communal Riots in India I (1947-1986),” Online
Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, July 2013, URL : http://www.massviolence.org/HinduMuslim-Communal-Riots-in,736, ISSN 1961-9898
(with Violette Graff), “Hindu-Muslim Communal Riots in India II (1986-2011),” Online
Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, August 2013, URL : http://www.massviolence.org/HinduMuslim-Communal-Riots-in,738, ISSN 1961-9898
“Aligarh: Sir Syed Nagar and Shah Jamal. Contrasted Tales of a Muslim City”, in GAYER,
Laurent, JAFFRELOT, Christophe (dir.), Muslims of Indian Cities: Trajectories of
Marginalization, London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2012, pp. 129-158
PAPERS IN PREPARATION OR UNDER REVIEW
“The Racialization of Muslims in France and the United States: Some Insights from White
Converts to Islam,” already under review for Social Compass
(with Diego de los Rios), “Learning to be Religious: Re-assessing Conversion to Islam and
Christianity as a Collective Learning Process,” already under review for Sociology of Religion
“The Genealogies of Islamophobia: Muslim Converts’ Past and Present Encounters with Race
in the West”
“Maneuvering Whiteness in Non-White Settings: White converts’ integration in the Muslim
community”
(avec Solène Brun), “Devenir minoritaire : la conversion des Blancs à l’islam, une expérience de
la minoration”
BOOK REVIEWS
« Economie d’un méga-bidonville. Commentaire de l’ouvrage de Marie-Caroline SaglioYatzimirsky, Dharavi : From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm », La Vie des idées,
January 2014. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Economie-dun-mega-bidonville.html
“Dharavi. Caste, Work and Protest in Asia’s Largest Slum. Review of Marie-Caroline
Saglio-Yatzimirsky’s book, Dharavi: From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm,” Books and
Ideas, January 2014. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/Dharavi.html
Books and Ideas, http://www.booksandideas.net/
« Recension de l’ouvrage de Céline Loudier-Malgouyres, Le retrait résidentiel à l’heure de la
métropolisation », Revue Française de Science Politique, vol. 63, n°6, December 2013, p.
1217-1218
« Une liberté anxiogène. Etre Indien et Sud-Africain dans la période postapartheid.
Commentaire de l’ouvrage de Thomas Blom Hansen, Melancholia of Freedom : Social Life in
an Indian Township in South Africa », La Vie des Idées, December 2012, ISSN : 2105-3030.
URL : http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Une-liberte-anxiogene.html
“Freedom as Anxiety. Indian South Africans in the Post Apartheid City. Review of Thomas
Blom Hansen, Melancholia of Freedom : Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa,”
Books
and
Ideas,
November
2012,
ISSN : 2105-3030.
URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/Freedom-as-Anxiety.html
« Recension de l’ouvrage de Véronique Dupont, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal et MarieHélène Zérah (dir.) Urban Policies and Right to the City in India », Métropolitiques,
http://www.metropolitiques.eu/, June 2012
« Recension de l’ouvrage de Dominique Lorrain (dir.), Métropoles XXL en pays émergents »,
Gouvernement et Action Publique, vol. 1, n°1, January-March 2012
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2015-2016
Northwestern Presidential Fellowship
Winter 2014
Robert Winch Award delivered by the Sociology
Department of Northwestern University for the Best
Second-Year Paper
Fall 2014
Sociology Research Fellowship, Sociology Department,
Northwestern University
Summer 2014
Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School,
Northwestern University
Summer 2014
Graduate Student Dissertation Research Travel Award,
Buffett Center, Northwestern University
2012-2013
Funding from the Partner University Fund at the Buffet
Center (Northwestern) for the Joint PhD program
2011 – 2014
Three-year doctoral contract funded by Sciences Po.
2009 – 2011
Exemption of tuition fees by Sciences Po, on a merit
basis.
PRESENTATIONS
Nov 2014
“Choosing Faith and Facing Race: White Converts to
Islam in France and the United States,” Annual meeting
of the SSHA (Social Science History Association),
Toronto, November 6-9th
Oct 2014
“Learning to Be Religious: Reassessing Conversion to
Islam, Buddhism and Christianity as a Collective Learning
Process,” with Diego de los Rios, Annual meeting of the
SSSR (Society for the Scientific Study of Religion),
st
nd
Indianapolis, October 31 -November 2
Oct 2014
“Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Parcours de convertis
blancs à l’Islam en France et aux Etats-Unis,” Séminaire
scientifique de l’OSC, Paris, SciencesPo/OSC, October
th
17
Sept 2014
“Of Faith, Race and Anomalous Identities: White
Converts to Islam in France and the United States,”
Colloque international “Le religieux au prisme de
l’ethnicisation et de la racisation,” Nanterre, Université de
Nanterre, September 17-18
Aug 2014
“Learning Faith and Facing Race: White Converts to
Islam in France and the United States,” at the WOCMES
(World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies), Ankara,
METU, August 18-22nd
April 2014
“When White Devils Join the Deen: White American
Converts to Islam and the Experience of Non-Normative
Whiteness,” at the Urban and Communities Workshop,
Sociology Department, Northwestern University, April 9th
March 2014
“Learning to be Muslim: American Converts to Islam and
the Collective Learning of Muslimness,” Chicago
Ethnographic Conference, Northwestern University,
th
March 15
Oct 2013
“Learning to be Muslim: American Converts to Islam and
the Development of a Muslim Self,” Graduate Conference
“Ways of Knowing,” Harvard Divinity School, October
25-26th
April 2013
“The Ghetto, the Enclave and the Citadel: Understanding
the Segregation of Upper-Class Muslims in an Indian
City” at the Urban and Communities Workshop,
Sociology Department, Northwestern University, April 17
March 2012
“The spatial expression of stigmatization: Muslim
neighborhoods and the experience of segregation,” Joint
Conference Sciences Po-UCLA, Migration, Ethnicity and
Urban Inequality in Europe, Los Angeles, 2-3 March
Dec 2011
« Le projet comparatif en débat. Retour sur les difficultés
d’élaboration d’une comparaison France/Etats-Unis/Inde
en sociologie urbaine », Ecole Thématique internationale
CNRS – PACTE/LATTS/EPFL, Comparer en sciences
sociales : une science inexacte ?, Grenoble, December 1st
– 2nd.
Oct 2011
“The Hurdles of Minority Political Representation: the
Case of Muslim MLAs in Uttar Pradesh” (with Gilles
Verniers), Collective conference on How representative is
democracy in South Asia today?, New York University,
New York, October 14th – 15th
Oct 2010
“Aligarh:
Contrasted
Tales
of
a
Muslim
City”,
Représentations de la Citoyenneté en Asie du Sud, CEIAS
(CNRS-EHESS), Paris, October 14th
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
May 2014-….
Ethnography of a support group for Muslim converts in
Paris and in-depth interview study of Muslim converts in
Paris, Marseille and Roubaix
Jan 2013 – April 2014
Ethnography of a support group for Muslim converts in
Chicago (USA) and in-depth interview study of Muslim
converts in Chicago, Saint Louis and Detroit
July 2011
Fieldwork in Delhi, Aligarh and Lucknow (India) for a
research project on Indian political representatives by Pr.
Christophe Jaffrelot. Collaboration with the CSH
(Centre de Sciences Humaines) in Delhi.
Feb– March 2011
Ethnography and interview study in Aligarh (Uttar
Pradesh) on the way urban segregation is experienced by
upper-class Muslims.
Sept 2010 – Feb 2011
Participation to a project by Pr. Marco Oberti on the
school segregation of immigrants in France.
July– Aug 2010
Ethnography and interview study in Aligarh (Uttar
Pradesh) for a collective project by Pr. Christophe
Jaffrelot and Laurent Gayer on Muslim populations in
Indian cities.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Jan – May 2015
Elective course “Sociology of Religion” (in English), to
B.A. and international students at Sciences Po Paris
Jan – May 2015
Teaching assistant (in French) for the course
“Introduction to Sociology,” by Pr. Pierre François to
students in the double degree between Sciences Po and
Ecole du Louvre
January 2015
Winter workshop “Introduction to Sociological Research
– Cities as Factories of Inequalities” (in English) to B.A.
and international students at Sciences Po Le Havre
Sept – Dec 2014
Teaching Assistant (in English) for the course “Political
anthropology of the jazzistic field,” by Alexandre
Pierrepont, to B.A. and international students at Sciences
Po Paris
Sept – Dec 2014
Elective course “Whiteness in America: an Ethnographic
Perspective” (in English), to B.A. and international
students at Sciences Po Paris
Jan – May 2012
Seminar “Urban Conflicts and Social Change” (in
English), to B.A. and international students at Sciences
Po Paris. Practical classes associated to a course by Pr.
Tommaso Vitale.
Jan – May 2012
Teaching Assistant (in English) for the course “Colonial
India,” by Pr. Christophe Jaffrelot, to B.A. and
international students at Sciences Po Paris.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Oct 2011 – May 2013 (France)
Elected student representative of Sciences Po PhD
students: defense of students’ interests at the graduate
school council, conflict management, communication
about institutional changes, assessment of the school
research performance
Oct 2011 – Sept 2012 (France)
Coordinator for the program “Cities Are Back In Town”
at Sciences Po Paris: organization of seminars,
communication, website management
(http://blogs.sciences-po.fr/recherche-villes/)
May – July 2009 (France)
Intern at the French Institute of International Relations
(IFRI, Institut Français des Relations Internationales):
edition, correction, bibliographical research and
promotional work for the center’s main publications
(Politique étrangère, RAMSES)
2008 (India)
Volunteer at the Indian NGO Ahwaan Foundation:
classes to slum children, organization of a demonstration
against child trafficking, public awareness campaigns
through Hindi street plays.
LANGUAGES AND OTHER SKILLS
French
English
Hindi
Spanish
Urdu
Arabic
Native speaker
Advanced
Upper intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Software
Proficient in Word, Excel, Publisher, Power Point, Stata,
Spad, Cartes&Données, Cartes&Données Num, Géoda,
Moodle