AURELIE AUDEVAL  / Historian

Aurélie Audeval (ReSI co-founder) holds a junior professorship in contemporary history at the University of Lille, at the Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHIS). Her research focuses on the history of immigration, the Shoah, political demography, gender issues in public policy, administrative practices and categorization phenomena. She recently completed a post-doctorate with the RUINES project (ANR) on the social and political uses of war ruins. She is currently working on the genealogy of the category of the undesirable alien.

https://univ-lille.academia.edu/AurélieAudeval

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ALEX BRAITHEWAITE /  Political Scientist

Alex Braithwaite is Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Professor in the School of Government & Public Policy at the University of Arizona. A political scientist by training, his teaching and research is primarily housed within the interdisciplinary field of international relations. His current research focuses on the causes and geography of political violence, the movement and rights of refugees and other forced migrant populations, the development of border policies, and government use of systems of concentration camps.

https://sgpp.arizona.edu/person/alex-braithwaite

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LUCILE CHAPUT /  Historian

Lucile Chaput is a doctoral student at the University of Rennes 2 (France). She is currently preparing a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Marc Bergère (Université de Rennes 2) and co-directed by Jonas Campion (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières). The thesis, entitled "Canadian internment camps: the internment of civilians in Canada during the Second World War", focuses on internment sites. The aim is to highlight the fate reserved for civilians (communists, fascists, Italians, Germans, Japanese, Jewish refugees, enemy merchant seamen), often Canadian citizens, who were considered at one time or another during the conflict to be 'enemies within'.

https://sites-recherche.univ-rennes2.fr/tempora/author/lchaput/

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NICOLAS FISCHER  / Political Scientist

Nicolas Fischer (ReSI co-founder) is a CNRS Research Fellow in Political Science at the Centre for Legal and Penal Institutions Sociology (Centre de recherche sociologique sur le droit et les institutions pénales, CESDIP). His recent research has dealt with the administrative detention of foreigners in France, administrative internment as an institution, and more broadly on the tension between violent repression and legal protection of stigmatized populations in democracies.

https://www.cesdip.fr/fischer-nicolas/

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TERRENCE G. PETERSON / Historian

Terrence G. Peterson is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University. He researches and teaches on France, modern Europe, and their connections to the wider world, with a particular focus on war, empire, and migration. His first book, Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency, will be published with Cornell University Press in September. His current work focuses on the Rivesaltes Camp in Southern France, which the French government used to detain a wide array of migrant populations from 1939 to 2007.

https://sipa.fiu.edu/people/faculty/history/peterson.terrence.html

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LAURENCE PREMPAIN / Historian

Laurence Prempain is a historian and independent researcher specializing in Polish and Polish-Jewish migration to France during the Interwar years and the Second World War. Her post-doctoral research project for BESTROM has broadened her field of work to include French Roma circus families. Her research takes a micro-historical and gendered approach, focusing on the life and survival strategies implemented by men and women who have suffered discrimination, exclusion, persecution, and deportation. 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5959-999X

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ADELE SUTRE / Historian, Geographer

Adèle Sutre is a postdoctoral fellow at the Convergences Migrations Institute researching migratory trajectories and the dynamics of mobility and territorial anchoring of Gypsy societies throughout the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently interested in the places of departure of Gypsy collectives embarking for the Americas (in particular the ports of northern Europe) and in questions of family memory of journeys. She also conducts research on assigned places and territories of populations categorized as “Gens du Voyage” in France (1945 and the present).

https://ehess.academia.edu/AdèleSutre

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BETH WEINSTEIN / Architect

Beth Weinstein (ReSI co-founder) is an architect and associate professor at the University of Arizona whose research investigates (dis)appearances and (in)visibilities related to climate catastrophe, states of exception, labor, and collaboration. Working with archival documents, situated practices and architectural modes of representation, she constructs and choreographs performance-installations that render “sensible” razed sites and spaces of internment in the Southwest US and France. 

https://capla.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/beth-weinstein