Berkley Center

Margot Dazey is a 2018 doctoral fellow with the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Research Project and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Cambridge. She spent the academic year 2017-2018 at Yale University as a Fox Fellow. Her dissertation examines the politics of respectability of Islamic organizations in France and unpacks the subtle trade-offs Muslim actors need to negotiate between political pressures for a "civil Islam" and intra-community expectations for "religious authenticity." She is an alumna in social sciences of the École Normale Supérieure and holds a B.A. and a M.Phil. in history from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as a B.A. in Arabic from the INALCO (Paris).