
Our Visiting Scholars
Below is a list of the 2018-2019 visiting scholars.
If you are scholar visiting Northwestern, see our visitors guide for information about Evanston and the Northwestern campus. If you are a French student interested in pursuing a dual PhD at Northwestern, review the application steps for more information.


Richard banégas is visiting faculty member in Political Science from Sciences Po. His research looks at the processes of citizenship change, mobilization of the youth and violence in West Africa, essentially in Ivory Coast. Richard Banégas also works on war, conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction.

Elise Massiard is a professor and researcher at Sciences Po, specializing in contemporary Turkish politics. Her work focuses on local politics, social movements and party politics. Through an analysis of actors' political practices, she is interested in the delineation of the political sphere



Jean d'Aspremont is professor in Science Po Law School. His works focuse on Public International Law, International Legal and International Legal Theory.

François Specq is professor and researcher of North American literrature and culture at the Ecole Normal Superieur de Lyon. His work focuses on ideas, literature and visual culture in the United States in the 19th century. He has particularly focused on American transcendentalism and the thought of Henry David Thoreau.

Anthony Chen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern and is visiting Sciences Po.
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Daniel Krcmaric is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern and is visiting Sciences Po.

Lucia Delaini is a graduate student in Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern and is visiting ENS Lyon.

Claudia Garcia-Rojas is a graduate student in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern and is visiting ENS Paris. Claudia's dissertation examines how blackness operates through the national security paradigm. Furthermore, she examines state practices of governance and repression that have emerged through the paradigm of counter-intelligence.
