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Thomas RIBEMONT

Career History

  • Since 2007: Associate Professor of Political Science at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University; researcher at CERAL [EA 3968].
  • 2007: Qualified as an Associate Professor in Sections 04 and 19 (CNU).
  • Since 2012: Lecturer at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS).
  • Since 2009: Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris.
  • Since 2006: Lecturer at the Institute of European Studies, Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
  • 2001–2003: Postdoctoral Researcher at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University (full-time).

Degrees

  • 2006: PhD Political Science, Paris 9 Dauphine University, summa cum laude with honors (unanimous decision).
  • 1998: Master’s degree in Political Science, Sociology, and Communication, University of Paris 9 Dauphine (rank: 1st).
  • 1997: Bachelor’s degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (with honors)

Coordination of or participation in research projects

  • Since January 2015: Project leader and coordinator of the project “Water and Geohazards: Raising Awareness of Best Practices in Water Management in Humanitarian Contexts. How Can We Better Engage Scientists, Humanitarian Workers, Policymakers, and Local Communities?”, Field of study: Indonesia, funded by the Bonus Qualité Recherche (BQR) grant, University of Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité.
  • Since September 2014: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Workshop on Environment & Security” (WES), Sciences Po, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), The Fletcher School of Tufts University, University of Geneva (UniGe), and University of Economics in Bratislava (UEBA).
  • Since June 2014: Member of the Sorbonne Paris Cité interdisciplinary research program “Land Policies in the Anthropocene: World, Scales, Data,” coordinated by Bruno Latour; responsible, along with Claude Grasland and Edouard Kaminski, for leading the research track on “Risks and Media Coverage of Disasters”; member of the program’s executive committee.
  • March 2010–October 2011: Member of the project “Law and Rights: A Sociology of the Ombudsman of the Republic,” coordinated by Anne Revillard, CERAL—a research project funded under the call for proposals “Professional Associations and Regulatory Authorities: Manifestations of Legal Pluralism,” Law and Justice Research Mission

Administrative responsibilities, research, and outreach

  • Administrative duties:
    • Since October 2011: Co-director, with Muriel Tapie-Grime, of the “Political Science” program at the Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Social Sciences at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University.
    • Since May 2009: Director of the Master’s 2 program in Political Science, specializing in “International Cooperation and NGOs” (co-directed with Christel Cournil since June 2014), at the Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Social Sciences, University of Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité.
    • Since October 2011: Co-director, with Virginie Roche, of the Master’s 1 program in Political Science, with a concentration in “International Relations and Exchanges,” at the Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Social Sciences at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University.
    • Since April 2015: External member of the European Studies Department, Institute of European Studies – Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
    • January 2011–December 2014: Member of the Faculty Council, College B, Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Social Sciences at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University.
    • 2012–2013: Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Social Sciences at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University.
  • Search:
    • Since January 2015: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Research on Local Action (CERAL) [EA 3968].
    • June 2010–June 2012: Associate Director of the Center for Research on Local Action (CERAL) [EA 3968].
  • Current teaching assignments (at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University):
    • Specialization in International Criminal Justice (Master’s 2 in International Cooperation and NGOs – 12 hours per year; in partnership with Amnesty International starting in 2012).
    • Specialization in "Humanitarian Project Management" (Master's 2 in International Cooperation and NGOs – 10 hours per year).
    • Course on Research Methodology (Master’s 2 in International Cooperation and NGOs – 10 hours per year).
    • Course: “Local Governance and Its Stakeholders” (Master’s 2 in Local Government Consulting – 15 hours/year).
    • Course on “European Integration Policies” (Master’s 1 in International Relations and Exchanges – 30 hours per year).
    • Course: “Contemporary Trends in Public Policy” (Master’s 1 in Public Policy and Action – 30 hours/year).
    • Course on the Sociology of Collective Action and Social Movements (3rd-year Political Science and Sociology program – 33 hours per year).

The most representative works

  • BOSSY, Thibault; EVRARD, Aurélien; GOURGUES, Guillaume; HOEFFLER, Catherine; RIBEMONT, Thomas, Public Policy, Paris, Foucher, 2015.
  • RIBEMONT, Thomas, Introduction to Immigration Law in France, Louvain-la-Neuve, De Boeck, 2012, reviewed by Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche in the Revue Française de Science Politique, vol. 63, no. 3-4, June–August 2013.
  • REVILLARD, Anne (Report Editor); BAUDOT, Pierre-Yves; CHAPPE, Vincent-Arnaud; RIBEMONT, Thomas, The Making of Administrative Legality: A Sociological Study of the Ombudsman of the Republic, Paris, Mission Recherche Droit et Justice, 2011.
  • BAUDOT, Pierre-Yves; RIBEMONT, Thomas (eds.), Political Science, Paris, DS. Foucher, “LMD” series, November 2010, 2nd updated edition, January 2013.

The 5 most representative articles

  • DEVES, Maud H.; KOMOROWSKY, Jean-Christophe; RIBEMONT, Thomas, “Earth Sciences and Public Policy: A Comparative Study of Two Crisis Management Responses—The Eruptions of La Soufrière in Guadeloupe and Soufrière Hills (Montserrat),”*Politiques et société*, forthcoming.
  • EVRARD, Aurélien; RIBEMONT, Thomas, “Are European Public Policies Necessarily Depoliticized?”, *Cahiers de la Nouvelle Europe*, special issue “The European Union: A Political Space at a Crossroads”, edited by Marie-Claude Esposito and Christine Manigand, No. 20, 2015.
  • RIBEMONT, Thomas, “The Chartist Historians (Archivists and Paleographers) at the Heart of the Dreyfus Affair,” *Políticas y constitucionalismo*, vol. I, no. 2, January–June 2014.
  • RIBEMONT, Thomas, “Crossing Boundaries: Historical Expertise in France. A Use of the Concept of Expertise,” in Damay, Ludivine; Denis, Benjamin; Duez, Denis (eds.), with a conclusion by Pierre Lascoumes, Expert and Lay Knowledge in the Construction of Public Issues, Brussels, Publications des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 2011.
  • RIBEMONT, Thomas, “Chartist Historians at the Heart of the Dreyfus Affair,” *Raisons politiques*, “Theories in Crisis,” issue edited by Frédérique Matonti and Daniel Mouchard, no. 18, Paris:Presses de Sciences Po, 2005.