Professional Profile

Diplomas and Academic positions

Profile

Diplomas and Academic positions

Françoise Vergès

I am currently Senior Fellow Researcher, Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialization, UCL, London

Diplomas

2006

Habilitation à diriger des recherches, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

1989-1995

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Political Science.

Ph.D.

Monsters and Revolutionaries.
Colonial Family Romance and Métissage.
Mark Joseph Rozance Memorial Award, 1995.
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, May 1995.

M.A.

“A Dilemma for Feminist Theory: Thinking the Pregnant Body in the Public Space.”
Michael Rogin, Chair.
Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, 1990.

1987-1989

San Diego State University, California. Department of Women’s Studies and Political Science.

B.A.

Women’s Studies and Political Science.
Summa cum laude, 1989.

1972-1974

Paris VII, Censier
Département des Langues Orientales
DEUG de Chinois.

1971-1972

Institut d’Études Politiques
Alger, Algeria.

1970

Lycée Français d’Alger
Baccalauréat, Section Littéraire.

Secondary School

Lycée Juliette Dodu
Saint-Denis, Ile de La Réunion.

Academic positions

2022
January-June

Professor of Cultural Studies
The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE.

2019

Visiting Professor, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA.

2017

Distinguished Visitor, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Rhodes Island, USA.

2014-2018

Chair Global South (s)
Collège d’études mondiales
Fondation des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris.

2007-2008

Consulting Professor
Center for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths College, London, UK.

2000-2007

Senior Lecturer,
Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, London, UK.

1996-2000

Lecturer
French and European Studies
Sussex University, UK.

Languages

French, English, Réunion Creole.