Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
About
Jean Beaman is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and chapters. She received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an editor of H-Net Black Europe, an associate editor of the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and corresponding editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.
Current Work:
Jean Beaman's current book project focuses on state-sponsored violence against racial and ethnic minorities in both the United States and France. She is examining the influence and resonance of BlackLivesMatter, as both a social movement and ideology, in both contexts. In France, police violence is a growing social problem yet difficult for activist communities to address because France does not view race and racism as legitimate.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Race and ethnicity; international migration; urban sociology; ethnography; social inequality
