Biographical Note

 

Dr Jocelyne Cesari

Jocelyne Cesari is Principal Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).  Her training, professional experience, and academic expertise are in Political Science, the Middle East area and Islamic Studies. Dr Cesari has written numerous books and articles, in Muslim minorities in France and in Europe and their transnational links with the Muslim world at large. On behalf of the European Commission, she is currently coordinating "the Network on Comparative Research Islam Muslims in Europe" (NOCRIME, see website: www.nocrime.org). Dr Cesari's continuous investigation on Islam as a minority in secular and democratic contexts took her to the United States. Since 1998, she held several fellowships and professorships at Harvard and Columbia Universities. She is currently Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University where she is in charge of a research seminar on Islam in Europe and in the US in the aftermath of September 11th. She is also teaching on Muslims in Multicultural America and Transnational Islam at the Anthropology Department. Her publications include: (ed.) Musulmans d'Europe (European Muslims), Cemoti, Paris, 2002; Marseillais que moi tu meurs, Migrations, identités et territoires à Marseille (Migrations, Identities and Territory in Marseille) L'Harmattan, Paris, 2001; (ed.) Les anonymes de la mondialisation, (Anonymous Agents of Globalization,) Cultures et Conflits, Paris, No. 33-34, Paris, 1999.

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