Chloé Josse-Durand

I am currently a Senior Research Associate on Leverhulme Trust funded project Afterlives of colonial incarceration: African prisons, architecture and politics (2022-2025). Principal investigator is Dr. Laura Routley, Reader in African Politics, Newcastle University: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/heritage/research/current-projects/afterlives-colonial-incarceration/

I am qualified to teach in Political Science by the French National Council of Universities – Qualification registration N° 17204282660, qualification campaign 2016.

From 2017-2021, I was based in Kenya as a post-doctoral research fellow and the Deputy Director of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nairobi), a public research institute in social sciences under the umbrella of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS): https://ifranairobi.hypotheses.org/165

My role included conducting individual and collaborative research initiatives, promoting the social sciences and humanities in East Africa through collaborations with African researchers and universities, and disseminating academic information.

I hold a Masters in African Studies and I received my Ph.D. in Political Science in 2016, at the University of Bordeaux, Institut d’Études Politiques, France.

More about my research here :
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/chloejosse-durand.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3363-6799