Margot Dazey

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Academic Year:
2017-18
Direction:
To Yale
Exchange Partners:
Cambridge University
Project Title:
Understanding Islamic Revivalist networks in France
Margot is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Cambridge. Funded by a Knox scholarship (Trinity College, Cambridge), Margot’s doctoral research examines the ways Islamic revivalist movements seek to gain acceptance both within French secular-republican society and pious Muslim communities. She is an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and holds an MPhil in History from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a BA in Arabic from the INALCO, Paris. Her research interests span institutional theory, sociology of religion and political ethnography.
Policy Brief: “How European Governments Engage with New Religious Communities”