Hubert PERES

Career history

  • Professor of Political Science at the University of Montpellier (since 1999). On secondment to AERES-HCERES since September 1, 2012: CSP (Scientific Advisor for Steering) for the SHS2 group – Social Norms, Institutions, and Behaviors – Research Evaluation Department.
  • Lecturer in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (1993–1999).
  • PRAG at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (1981–1994).
  • Associate Professor of Social Sciences in Gironde (1978–1981).
  • Certified Teacher of Economics and Social Studies (probationary) (1977).

Degrees

  • Agrégation from the Institutes of Political Studies, 1999.
  • Qualification to Supervise Research in Political Science. “Politics, Space, and Time,” defended on September 13, 1994, at the University of Bordeaux I (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux). Advisor: Albert Mabileau.
  • PhD Political Science. “Individuals Between Village and Nation: An Experience of Identity in the Formation of Republican France.” Thesis defended on January 8, 1993, at the University of Bordeaux I (Institute of Political Studies). Advisor: Albert Mabileau.
  • Certificate of Qualification in Social Sciences, 1978.
  • Bachelor's degree in Economics and Social Sciences, 1977.
  • Master’s Degree in Political Science (Local Government and Local Administration), Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux I, 1976.
  • Master’s Degree in Sociology, University of Bordeaux II, 1976.
  • Graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux I, 1975.

Awards, distinctions, and coordination or participation in research projects

  • Co-director of the ETAPES (Spaces and Temporalities of Public Action in Southern Europe) Associated European Laboratory (LEA) at the CNRS and the University of Barcelona (2004–2011).
  • Scientific Director of the FEDERES program (Training and Development of Expertise in Natural Resources in Southern Europe), INTERREG III-B South-West Europe (2002–2006).
  • Co-organizer (with William Genieys) of the roundtable discussion “Democratic States and Recognition of Diversity: A Comparative Analysis of the Renewal of Political Pluralism,” 9th Congress of the French Political Science Association, Toulouse, September 5–7, 2007.
  • Co-organizer (with Mohammad-Saïd Darviche) of the panel “Policies toward Cultural Diversity and the Politics of Identity in Comparative Perspective,” European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2005, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, September 8–10, 2005.
  • Paper: Local Governance and Identities from a Comparative Perspective (GP8-72), 19th International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress, Durban, June 29–July 4, 2003.
  • Co-director of the Tempus TACIS program at the IEP in Bordeaux and Grenoble – University of Barcelona – Baku Institute of Public Administration (Azerbaijan), 1998–2001.

Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion

  • Scientific Advisor for Program Management (CSP) of the SHS2 Group – Social Norms, Institutions, and Behaviors – Research Evaluation Department.
  • Director of CEPEL (Center for Political Studies of Latin Europe), UMR 5112 CNRS-UM1 (2004–2014).
  • Expert with the FRS-FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research), Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Belgium, since 2013.
  • Program Director for the Master’s 2 program in “International Cooperation and Development” (since 2008).
  • Elected member of the UM1 Scientific Council (2008–2014).
  • Elected member of the Board of Directors of the IPAG (Institute for Preparation for General Administration) in Montpellier (since 2008).
  • Member of the jury for the African Agrégation in Political Science, Cotonou (2009) and Abidjan (2011).
  • Head of International Relations for the Faculty of Law and Political Science (UM1) (2010–2011).
  • Chair of the UM1 Political Science Committee (2001–2008).

Interactions with the environment

  • Occasional consultant (on radio, television, and in print media) on Spanish politics: France Info – RFI; Vatican Radio; RCF; Radio Classique; France Inter, France Culture, NRJ; Radio Nostalgie; La Croix; Sud-Ouest; Le Progrès, etc. Regular political consultant for France Bleu Hérault, France Bleu Gard-Lozère (Radio France group), FR3.
  • “The Catalan Crisis: What to Expect from the December 2017 Elections?”, Diplomacy. Strategic Affairs and International Relations, No. 90, January–February 2018, pp. 24–28.
  • “On Identity,” Les Cahiers de Science & Vie No. 149, October 2014.
  • Contributor to *L’Encyclopédie de l’Etat du Monde* (La Découverte), responsible for the section on Spain (2008–2012); “Spain’s European Roots: ‘Spain on the Move’,” *Alternatives Internationales*, No. 32, Sept.–Oct. 2006.
  • Public lectures (Spain, Catalonia, diversity, integration, immigration, nation, anti-Semitism, Middle East conflicts, etc.).

The 5 most representative works

  • (eds.) (with Christophe Roux), Spanish Democracy: Institutions and Political Life, PUR, 2016.
  • “A Strange Subject of Debate: Secularism in Hospitals in Public Discourse (2003–2011),” in Vincente Fortier and François Viala (eds.), The Hospital Through the Lens of Secularism, Les Etudes Hospitalières, Bordeaux, pp. 33–94, 2013.
  • “Towards the End of National Models for the Integration of Immigrants in Europe? Britain, France, and Spain in Comparative Perspective” in Adam Luedtke (DS.), Migrants and Minorities: The European Response, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2010, pp. 272–310.
  • “A Different Perspective on the Dynamics of National Identity in France and Spain,” in Emmanuel Nadal, Marianne Marty, and Céline Thiriot (eds.), with Daniel-Louis Seiler (contrib.), *Comparative Politics: The Fields of Comparativism*, Paris: Karthala, 2005, pp. 187–202 .
  • “The Village in French Society under the Third Republic: A Cumulative Configuration of Identity,” in Denis-Constant Martin (ed.), Identity Cards: How Do We Define Ourselves in Politics?, Paris: Presses F.N.S.P., 1994, pp. 209–228.

The 5 most representative articles

  • “The Spanish General Elections of December 20, 2015, and June 26, 2016,” Pôle Sud No. 45, 2016, pp. 139–154.
  • “The Origins and Context of an Invention: Juan Linz’s Questionnaire Between Subjective Identity and Nationalist Claims,” International Journal of Comparative Politics, No. 4 – Volume 144, 2007, pp. 515–530.
  • “Erving Goffman and Social Life Through the Ages,” *Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie*, vol. CVII, July–December 1999, pp. 405–428.
  • “Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: Hunting in Chalosse,” *Etudes rurales*, no. 147–148, January–December 1998, pp. 99–113.
  • “Communal Identity, the Republic, and Communalization: On Village War Memorials.” Revue Française de Science Politique, vol. 39, no. 5, October 1989, pp. 665–682.