Jocelyne Cesari

Cesari is a French political scientist, tenured at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. In the US, she has held multiple Professorships at Columbia University, Harvard University, and John Hopkins University. In 2011-12, she has been the Minerva Chair at the National Defense University, conducting research on Islam and democratization in the context of the Arab Spring that will be the basis for her forthcoming book.

Her most recent books and articles are Muslims in the West After 9/11: Religion, Politics and Law (2009); “Islam in the West from Immigration to Global Islam”, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review; and European Muslims and the Secular State (2005). She has also received grants to write the reports “Islam and Fundamental Rights” and “The Religious Consequences of September 11, 2001, on Muslims in Europe” for the European Commission.

She coordinates two major web resources on the topic of contemporary of Islam and politics: Islamopedia Online and Euro-Islam.info.