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Thomas RIBEMONT

Career history

  • Since 2007: Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University, researcher at CERAL [EA 3968].
  • 2007: Qualification as Associate Professor, 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, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle.
  • 2001-2003: Temporary teaching and research assistant at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University (full-time).

Degrees

  • 2006: PhD Political Science, Paris 9 Dauphine University, summa cum laude with unanimous honors.
  • 1998: Master's degree in Political Science, Sociology, and Communication, Paris 9 Dauphine University (rank: 1st).
  • 1997: Degree from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies (with honors)

Coordination or participation in research projects

  • Since January 2015: Project leader and coordinator for "Water and Earthquake Risks: Raising Awareness of Good Water Management Practices in Humanitarian Situations. How can we better involve scientific, humanitarian, and political actors, as well as local populations?" Fieldwork location: Indonesia, funded by the Bonus Qualité Recherche (BQR) program, University of Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité.
  • Since September 2014: Member of the Scientific Council of the Workshop on Environment & Security (WES), Sciences Po, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), The Fletcher School of Tufts University, University of Geneva (UniGe), 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, with Claude Grasland and Edouard Kaminski, for steering the research axis 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: Sociology of the Mediator of the Republic," coordinated by Anne Revillard, CERAL—research project funded under the call for projects "Professional Orders and Regulatory Authorities, Manifestations of Legal Pluralism," Law and Justice Research Mission

Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion

  • Administrative functions:
    • Since October 2011: Co-director, with Muriel Tapie-Grime, of the Political Science program, Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences, Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University.
    • Since May 2009: Head of the Master 2 program in Political Science, specializing in "International Cooperation and NGOs" (jointly with Christel Cournil since June 2014), 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 1 program in Political Science, specializing in "International Relations and Exchange," 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, University of Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité.
    • 2012-2013: Assessor 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 Council of the Center for Research on Local Action (CERAL) [EA 3968].
    • June 2010-June 2012: Deputy Director of the Center for Research on Local Action (CERAL) [EA 3968].
  • Current courses (at Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité University):
    • Master's degree in International Criminal Justice (Master 2 International Cooperation and NGOs – 12 hours/year; in partnership with Amnesty International since 2012).
    • CM "Humanitarian Project Engineering" (Master 2 International Cooperation and NGOs – 10 hours/year).
    • Lecturer in Research Methodology (Master's Degree in International Cooperation and NGOs – 10 hours/year).
    • CM "Local governance and its actors" (Master 2 in Local Government Consulting – 15 hours/year).
    • CM in "European Integration Policies" (Master 1 International Relations and Exchanges – 30 hours/year).
    • CM "Contemporary Trends in Public Policy (Master 1 Public Policy and Action – 30 hours/year).
    • Course in Sociology of Collective Action and Social Movements (Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Sociology – 33 hours/year).

The most representative works

  • BOSSY, Thibault; EVRARD, Aurélien; GOURGUES, Guillaume; HOEFFLER, Catherine; RIBEMONT, THOMAS, Public Policy, Paris, Foucher 2015.
  • RIBEMONT, Thomas, Introduction au Droit des étrangers en France (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 (editor); BAUDOT, Pierre-Yves; CHAPPE, Vincent-Arnaud; RIBEMONT, Thomas, La fabrique d’une légalité administrative. Sociologie du Médiateur de la République (The Making of Administrative Legality: Sociology 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" collection, November 2010, 2nd updated edition, January 2013.

The 5 most representative articles

  • DEVES, Maud H.; KOMOROWSKY, Jean-Christophe; RIBEMONT, Thomas, "Earth Sciences and Public Action: A Comparative Study of Two Crisis Management Situations: The Eruptions of La Soufrière in Guadeloupe and Soufrière Hills in 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, "Los historiadores chartistas (archiveros paleógrafos) en el centro del caso Dreyfus" ( Chartist historians (paleographer archivists) at the heart of the Dreyfus affair), Políticas y constitucionalismo, volume I, number 2, January-June 2014.
  • RIBEMONT, Thomas, "Crossing borders: historical expertise in France. A use of the concept of expertise," in Damay, Ludivine; Denis, Benjamin; Duez Denis (eds.), Conclusion by Pierre Lascoumes, Expert and lay knowledge in the construction of public issues, Brussels, Publications des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 2011.
  • RIBEMONT, Thomas, "Les historiens chartistes au cœur de l'affaire Dreyfus" (Chartist historians at the heart of the Dreyfus affair), Raisons politiques, "Théories en crise" (Theories in crisis), issue coordinated by Frédérique Matonti and Daniel Mouchard, no. 18, Paris,Presses de Sciences Po, 2005.