CURRICULUM VITAE Juliette GALONNIER PhD Candidate Born on January 24, 1990 juliette.galonnier@u.northwestern.edu juliette.galonnier@sciencespo.fr Northwestern University, Sociology Sciences Po Paris, OSC EDUCATION Sept 2012 Oct 2011 Sept 2010 June 2011 Sept 2009 June 2010 July 2008 May 2009 Oct 2006 June 2008 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. PhD program in Sociology, at the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC, Observatory for Social Change, CNRS-Sciences Po), under the supervision of Marco Oberti. 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). 1 st year of a Research Master in Comparative Politics at Sciences Po. Fields of interest: South Asian politics, Hindu-Muslim relations in India, ethnic violence. 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). 1 st and 2 nd 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/hindu- Muslim-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/hindu- Muslim-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 Saglio- Yatzimirsky, 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 Marie- Hélène 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 Fall 2014 Summer 2014 Summer 2014 Robert Winch Award delivered by the Sociology Department of Northwestern University for the Best Second-Year Paper Sociology Research Fellowship, Sociology Department, Northwestern University Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern University 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 Oct 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 6-9 th 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), Indianapolis, October 31 st -November 2 nd
Oct 2014 Sept 2014 Aug 2014 April 2014 March 2014 Oct 2013 April 2013 March 2012 Dec 2011 Oct 2011 Oct 2010 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 17 th 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 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 18-22 nd 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 9 th Learning to be Muslim: American Converts to Islam and the Collective Learning of Muslimness, Chicago Ethnographic Conference, Northwestern University, March 15 th Learning to be Muslim: American Converts to Islam and the Development of a Muslim Self, Graduate Conference Ways of Knowing, Harvard Divinity School, October 25-26 th 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 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 «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 1 st 2 nd. 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 14 th 15 th Aligarh: Contrasted Tales of a Muslim City, Représentations de la Citoyenneté en Asie du Sud, CEIAS (CNRS-EHESS), Paris, October 14 th
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE May 2014-. Jan 2013 April 2014 July 2011 Feb March 2011 Sept 2010 Feb 2011 July Aug 2010 Ethnography of a support group for Muslim converts in Paris and in-depth interview study of Muslim converts in Paris, Marseille and Roubaix 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 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. Ethnography and interview study in Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) on the way urban segregation is experienced by upper-class Muslims. Participation to a project by Pr. Marco Oberti on the school segregation of immigrants in France. 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 Sept Dec 2014 Sept Dec 2014 Jan May 2012 Jan May 2012 Winter workshop Introduction to Sociological Research Cities as Factories of Inequalities (in English) to B.A. and international students at Sciences Po Le Havre 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 Elective course Whiteness in America: an Ethnographic Perspective (in English), to B.A. and international students at Sciences Po Paris 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. 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) Oct 2011 Sept 2012 (France) May July 2009 (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 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/) 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 Software Native speaker Advanced Upper intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Proficient in Word, Excel, Publisher, Power Point, Stata, Spad, Cartes&Données, Cartes&Données Num, Géoda, Moodle