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Historian and Political Scientist | Research Professor at Sciences Po (CERI-CNRS)
Discover my journeyI am a research professor at CERI-CNRS (Sciences Po, Paris), where I teach, among other subjects, the history of war crimes trials and the historiography and memory of the Holocaust in Southeast Europe.
A historian and political scientist by training, holder of an HDR in social sciences from EHESS, a doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Paris, two Masters (political science; Eastern European studies) from Sciences Po Paris, a Master in international relations (minor: history of the Balkans) from USC and a Bachelor from Sciences Po Paris (top of the class), I was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (2017) and Reid Hall Fellow at Columbia University (1999-2000).
My research follows three main lines:
▸ The history, historiography, memory and judicial treatment of the Holocaust in Southeast Europe; the cultural history of Eastern European socialisms; the sociologies of conflicts and identities.
▸ The construction, accreditation and dissemination of knowledge about Central/Eastern/Southeastern Europe before and since 1989; the drawing of political and symbolic borders within and at the edges of Europe.
▸ The relationships between arts, sciences and the social sciences, and the contribution of the arts to knowledge production.
Author of more than 280 publications, I also participate in public debate through consulting activities, training, and media interventions on political and identity issues in Southeast Europe, as well as on the history and memory of the Holocaust.
Consulting — I have served as a consultant for national and European organizations, including the OSCE, the European Parliament, the DGCID/MEAE, the CAPS/MEAE and the French Parliament. I have also provided training for the Diplomatic Institute of the Quai d'Orsay, for the IHEDN, and for the Mémorial de la Shoah in partnership with museums and Ministries of Education in Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Greece.
Scientific bodies — Former member of Section 40 (CNRS) and of Section 4 (CNU), I currently sit on the Scientific Council of the TRIAC Cluster (UMIFRE, MEAE-CNRS), at the International Academic Advisory Board (IAAB) of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and on the History Commission of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (FMS). I am also a member of the steering committee of the CNRS Research Group "Knowledge of Central Europe" and of the SFERES collective.
Editorial boards — I serve on the editorial boards of Critique internationale, Comparative Southeast European Studies (open access), Yad Vashem Studies and Balkanologie (open access), and on the scientific committees of Human Affairs, Bălgarska etnologija, Balkanistic worlds, Antropologija and the Journal of Regional Security. I am also an elected member of the CERI Unit Council and an elected alternate member of Sciences Po's Institute Council.
Southeast Europe: Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece.
Post-Ottoman Balkans, religious and ethnocultural identifications, forced assimilation.
Socio-history of cinema and theatre, visual history and sociology of everyday life.
Transnational history of war crimes trials and public uses of the past.
Over 280 academic and popular publications.
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6 publications
13 publications
77 publications
45 publications
120+ publications
20 publications
Liste mise à jour en septembre 2026. Les publications les plus récentes incluent des travaux sur l'histoire de la Shoah en Bulgarie, les Balkans contemporains et l'analyse de la situation politique européenne.
Bachelor — Sciences Po Paris & Dijon Campus
Political Science Master's, Doctoral School — Sciences Po Paris
Master Research track — Doctoral School (ED) & School of Public Affairs (EAP), Sciences Po Paris
Bachelor — Sciences Po Paris & Dijon European Campus
Bachelor — Sciences Po Paris & Dijon European Campus
Master — Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po Paris
Bachelor — Dijon European Campus, Sciences Po Paris
Explorer les frontières entre arts, sciences et sciences sociales
Le CERI Sciences Po a lancé un Ciné-club en partenariat avec le cinéma l'Entrepôt (Paris, 14ème)
La Cinémathèque française, Paris
21 octobre 2022 - 23 mai 2023
« Vous êtes filmés. Quand les agents du renseignement est-européens apprenaient leur métier par l'image »
in : Alexandra Midal et Matthieu Orléan (dir.), Top secret. Cinéma & espionnage, Paris : Flammarion, 2022, p. 224-228.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Marseille
29 octobre - 21 décembre 2020
Dans le cadre de la biennale des Parallèles du Sud | Manifesta 13
« Monumentalités rivales : Skopje de pierre et de bronze »
in : Pierre Sintès (dir.), Rue d'Alger. Autour des patrimoines postcoloniaux et minoritaires, Marseille : MUCEM, 2022, p. 303-317.
Chambon-sur-Lignon
24 juillet - 30 novembre 2020
Membre du conseil scientifique de l'exposition
Commissaire : Jacques Semelin, directeur de recherche au CNRS et au CERI
Les activités humaines (productives, extractives, de surveillance, touristiques, parfois aussi scientifiques) créent une prolifération d'émissions sonores qui fragilisent les organismes et animaux marins (plancton, krill, poisson, crustacé, cétacé), affectant écholocalisation et interactions sociales, recherche de nourriture et reproduction, évitement des prédateurs et survie, etc.
Des recherches scientifiques ont documenté les effets des bruits d'origine anthropique sur les mondes marins; les sciences sociales ont reconstitué les conditions de (faible) construction en problème public du bouleversement des paysages sonores des océans.
Comment renouveler les modes de diffusion de ces savoirs et de sensibilisation aux enjeux de pollution sonore ? Dans cette séance inaugurale du séminaire « Arts et sciences sociales », il s'agira de montrer comment une bifurcation existentielle a conduit à solliciter les arts, « ces nouvelles frontières des sciences humaines et sociales » (Bruno Latour) (encres de Chine et performances visuelles et sonores), afin de revaloriser les vertus cognitives des gestes, des sens et du regard et de favoriser l'appréhension de la résistance des chimères (aux sens scientifique et métaphorique).
La discussion sera animée par Jeanne-Louise Roellinger, doctorante au CERI.
More than ever in the age of the all‑digital and of artificial intelligence, we may wish to remember that thinking is done with the hand, with the body, with the diversity of the senses. The time we devote to underlining and annotating a book is an integral part of our capacity to understand and make it our own. Living materiality—paper, smell, color—and gestures—leafing through, going back—have sensory virtues that are also cognitive virtues. We in‑corp‑orate what we read, see, and hear.
The idea for these Chinese‑ink drawings was born of a sense of urgency—to let neither gestures, nor materiality, nor the senses wither; and to make their assemblage a vector of knowledge. We all feel it: most issues, or even fears, 'slip' over us, leaving apparently few traces, constantly replaced by others. Walking with and through art is, in my view, a way to overcome the (artificial) divide between thinking and feeling. It offers one way, through a form of creation, to renew our capacity to invent reflection in the social sciences.
The series 'Architectures/Ghosts' (2025) offered here is such an invitation. It probes the edges between the figurative and the abstract; between the human, the living, and the materialities of stone and earth; between the mobile, often iterative, and the immobile. Time—the time of inks mingling on vellum paper, the time of the gaze resting upon the work—opens a space for breathing, respectful of the rhythm of things and beings.
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