Juliette Galonnier

Bio

Juliette Galonnier is a Postdoctoral researcher within the “Global Race” research project at INED (Paris, France). She is also currently co-coordinating a project on “Muslims of African descent in France“. Her work focuses on the social construction of racial and religious categories. She received in 2017 a joint PhD degree from Northwestern University and Sciences Po Paris. Entitled Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States, her dissertation was awarded in 2018 the Best Dissertation Award of the American Sociological Association. She has published several book chapters and articles in journals such as Social Compass, Sociology of Religion and Tracés. She is a member of the editorial boards of Tracés and Books and Ideas. She is also part of the research team “Agenda for a critical sociology of religion” and the network “Islam, researchers and the public sphere.”