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Ph.D. in political science (2000) from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), for a dissertation about the processes of State building in colonial Southeast Asia from 1870 to 1920. Joined CERI in 2001. Policy analyst (2000-2001) and permanent consultant (2001-2005) for the Asia-Pacific Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Former member of the editorial boards of Critique internationale and Raisons politiques. Regular contributor to the Asia Network (CNRS, MSH, Sciences Po, EHESS), the French Political Science Association and FASOPO; member of the editorial board of Politix.
A political scientist and a specialist of Southeast Asia. Participates in the CERI Transversal Project ”Historical Trajectories of the State” and co-teaches, with Jean-François Bayart, the research seminar “State, Nation, Empire”.
Teaching
- Sciences Po: “Islam and political modernity in Southeast Asia from the 17th century to the present day”, “Asian challenges: Islam and Islamism in contemporary Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia) (Master’s-level courses on Comparative Societies, specialization on Asia)
Research interests
- “Imperial encounters: Java and the Europeans (17th – 19th centuries): the ‘colonial moment’ in Javanese political society in relation to the long history of Euro-Asian imperial encounters (an individual research project)
- “The engineers of democracy in Jakarta: political sociology of the experts and the institutions of the post-Suharto Indonesian ‘transition’” (collective research within an Agence Nationale de la Recherche /ANR/ project)
Academic publications
General interest books