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Education

Tenured at the Institute for Political Studies, IEP, Paris (2008)

Ph.D. at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, INALCO (2002)

M.A. on Post-Soviet Studies at INALCO (1998) and Political Science at Paris II-Assas (1998)

B.A. on Post-Soviet Studies at INALCO (1994) and History at Paris VII-Jussieu (1996)

Fellowships and Research Grants

Research Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (January-May 2009).

Principal Investigator, Smith Richardson Foundation. Project: “Coping with the Russo-Chinese Competition in Central Asia : Local Perspectives and Strategies” (January-December 2008).

Writing Fellowship from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Project: “Euphemizing Antisemitism. Conspiracy Theories in Russia ’s New Academic Disciplines” (June-December 2007).

Writing Fellowship from the French National Center of Publications (October 2006-May 2007).

Visiting Fellow at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo,  Japan (July-September 2006).

Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (September 2005-May 2006).

Post-Doctoral Fellow at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan (September 2002-August 2005).

Lavoisier Fellow from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia, Moscow and St Petersburg (November 2000-May 2002).

Visiting Fellow at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey (May-August 2001).

Doctoral Fellowship at the French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent (October 1998-October 2000).

Doctoral Fellowship at the French Institute of Social Sciences in Prague , Czech Republic (October 1997-June 1998).

Teaching Experience

Member of the pedagogical team of the Post-Soviet Studies Department at the Institute of Political Studies, IEP, Paris (2006-). Supervision of PhD and Master students.

Guest Lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Paris (2001-2002).

History and Geography Teacher at the French School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1998-1999).

Membership in Academic Organizations

Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN).

Member of the French Center for Post-Soviet Societies Studies (INALCO, Paris), the French Institute of Slavic Studies (Sorbonne, Paris), and the French-Russian Center in Social Sciences and Humanities (Moscow).

Other professional positions

Co-director of the collection “Sociétés postsoviétiques en mouvement”, Paris, Petra, with Virginie Symaniec (2007-).

Member of the Editorial Board of Nationalities Papers (2007-), Central Eurasian Reader (2007-), Cahiers d’Asie centrale (2003-) and “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” collection, Stuttgart: Verlag-Ibidem (publications in English, Russian and German).

Referees on articles published in Nationalities Papers, The Russian Review, Slavic Review, Central Asian Survey, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Revue des études slaves, Cahiers du monde russe.

Conferences Organizing

“Central Asia-China: From Geopolitics To Global Partnership”, June 4-5, 2008, Almaty, Kazakhstan, organized by the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (Tashkent), the French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (Hong-Kong), the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (Almaty) and the Institute of Oriental Studies (Almaty). Proceedings published in Russian.

Cycle of six conferences on “Contemporary Russian Nationalisms”, 2005-2006, Moscow, organized by the French-Russian Center in Social Sciences and Humanities, in collaboration with Alexis Berelowitch. Proceedings published in Russian (three volumes).

“Between etnos and Eurasia. A Conference on the Ideas and Influence of Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev” June 27, 2005, Moscow, organized in collaboration with Mark Bassin. No proceedings.

“About the Concept of etnos: the Question of Ethnic Determinism in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space”, April 22, 2005, Paris, organized by the Center for Russian, Caucasian and East-European Studies (EHESS) and the French Center for Post-Soviet Societies Studies (INALCO). No proceedings.

“Building Nation, Building Socialism: Permanency, Variations and Instrumentalizations of the National Referent from the 19th Century to the Communist regimes (Eastern Europe and Russian-Soviet space)”, November 28, 2003 and May 13, 2004, Paris, organized by INALCO. Proceedings published in French.

“Islam, Politics and Nation in the former USSR. A Comparative Analysis between Russia and Central Asian Republics”, April 1-2, 2004, Kazan, Russia, organized by IFEAC and the Tatarstan Institute of Federalism. Proceedings published in French and Russian.

Languages

Fluent French, English, Russian

Working knowledge in Czech and German

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