Meet our Francophone Mobility Chairholders

Fabienne Martin-Juchat

Fabienne Martin-Juchat is a professor of information science and communication at Université Grenoble Alpes, France. She takes an anthropological approach to body language and emotional communication, particularly in terms of health-care technologies.

Cristina Ferreira

Cristina Ferreira holds a doctorate in sociology and is an associate professor at the Haute École de Santé Vaud in Lausanne, Switzerland. She takes a sociohistorical approach to her research, which focuses on the institutional use of forensic psychiatry. Over the past few years, thanks to support from the Fonds national suisse (FNS), a Swiss national fund, she has conducted research on restriction and assistance measures, and on the contemporary history of forensic expertise in civil and correctional contexts.

Adélie Pomade

Adélie Pomade is a senior lecturer at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. As an expert on public participation in environmental decision-making, she conducts research at the intersection of legal theory, environmental rights and the sociology of law. She explores participative methods and legal tools that allow for public participation in decisions, as well as non-legal partnerships to improve such participation.

Constance Devereaux

As an educator, researcher and consultant, Constance Deveraux works in the field of cultural management and policy. She focuses on cultural sustainability issues and critiques of policies that prioritize economic factors rather than culture and community. She has been named a Fulbright Senior Specialist in cultural policies and management for several countries and has worked with marginalized cultural groups to strengthen cultural integrity through related management strategies and policies.

Doudou Dièye Gueye

Doudou Dièye Gueye is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Sociology of the University Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Senegal. His work focuses on migrations, and more specifically on the “irregular migration industry” in the southern cross-border region of Senegal. As a researcher, he has participated in several international research programs, such as the “Gender, Return Migration and Reintegration in the Gambia, Guinea and Senegal” study sponsored by the Swiss Network for International Studies, and the “Complex Migration Flows and Multiple Drivers in Comparative Perspective (MEMO)” project with the University of Toronto.

Christophe Alcantara

Christophe Alcantara is a university lecturer specializing in information science and communication at the Université Toulouse Capitole, in France. He is an expert in digital reputation and assistant director of the Institut de droit de l’espace, des territoires, de la culture et de la communication (IDETCOM), an institute dedicated to the rights surrounding spaces, territories, culture and communication. His most recent work focuses on the cultural, historic, heritage and political issues surrounding the famous thousand-year-old pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

André Magord

André Magord is professor of North-American civilization and member of the MIMMOC laboratory (memory, identity and marginality in the modern western world) at the University of Poitiers, France. His principal areas of research are: North America – Francophone and Indigenous minorities, multiculturalism, factors influencing ethnolinguistic vitality as well as epistemology in the social sciences and humanities. He will pursue a project on Francophone oral expression, a sound library of spoken literature fonds collected since 1930 in the rural areas of western central France, in Francophone Canada and in Louisiana.

Yann Raison du Cleuziou

Yann Raison du Cleuziou is a professor of political science at the University of Bordeaux, France. As one of the most well-known sociologists of religion in France, he pursues comparative research on the transition of Catholicism to minority status in France and Canada. Working with Professor E.-Martin Meunier, his research program offers a different view on the social and political transformations underway in France.

Jean-Alain Goudiaby

Jean-Alain Goudiaby is a professor and researcher at Université Assane SECK de Ziguinchor, Senegal. As an expert in knowledge mobilization, he has for years been researching and analyzing educational dynamics in Africa and the policies associated with them. His research project examines perspectives on research, and on introductory training on research as experienced in a Senegal-Canada partnership, in collaboration with Nathalie Mondain, a demographer, sociologist, researcher and professor at the University of Ottawa.

Michael Falser

Michael Falser, Associate professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, is considered one of the most important researchers in a new discipline, namely the global history of architecture. He will pursue comparative research on the tensions that underlie (post)colonial architecture and heritage buildings in Francophone and Germanophone locations, and will launch a new field of research on the globalization of the Francophonie and its architecture in universal expositions.

Opêoluwa Blandine Agbaka

Opêoluwa Blandine Agbaka is a tenured faculty member at the Institut National des Métiers d’art, d’Archéologie et de la Culture of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, where she is director of the department of visual arts and heritage.

She will undertake a research project on heritage policies and their evolution in the Francophonie around the world. She hopes to adopt a cross-cultural perspective on Canada and Africa and highlight the issue of traditional cultures and practices used to conserve heritage in the Francophone world with the aim of creating a typology.

Somnoma Edouard Kaboré

Somnoma Edouard Kaboré, Professor at Université Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso, will undertake promising research on the development of project management projects in Africa. His research deals with the implementation and evaluation of international development projects in Africa, and specifically on their governance and success. He has been invited by Professor Lavagnon Ika, who specializes in project management at the Telfer School of Management of the University of Ottawa.

Nicolas Peyre

Nicolas Peyre is a teacher and researcher in communications and information science at the Institute in Space, Territories, Culture and Communications Law (IDETCOM), at Toulouse Capitole University, France. His research will examine French soft diplomacy in Ottawa and Canada from a Francophone perspective and the global branding of France’s public museums within the Francophonie.

Ferdulis Zita Odome Angone

Ferdulis Zita Odome Angone is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work looks at pressing matters such as representation of the African woman, coloniality and migration. During her stay in Ottawa, she will work on questions of interest for the University, including establishing partnerships with African institutions, developing an African studies program in the Faculty of Social Sciences and applying decolonization and anti-racism policies on campus.

Mehdi Lahlou

Mehdi Lahlou, an associate professor at Université Mohammed V, in Rabat, Morocco, analyzes various migratory flows in the Mediterranean, particularly between the Maghreb and the European Union. He has contributed to several collections and reports on immigration and emigration and their socioeconomic-, health- and climate-related consequences.

Céline Béraud

Céline Béraud, a sociologist of religion, serves as research supervisor at the Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Her project as part of the uOttawa Francophone Mobility Chair will focus on the church in France, particularly in light of the Sauvé commission looking at crimes of a sexual nature. 

Michel Lussault

Professor Michel Lussault heads the École urbaine de Lyon. For two years, he has been the main collaborator on activities involving the uOttawa-uLyon Research Chair on the Urban Anthropocene. During his stay in Ottawa, he will look at the particular approaches of the French intelligentsia to urban issues and, as part of a series of events, the links between urban-related processes and the climate crisis.

Ahmed Boubeker

Ahmed Boubeker is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Université Jean Monnet à Saint-Étienne, Université de Lyon, France, and assistant director of the Centre Max Weber. His research focuses on migration, ethnicity in France and post-colonial issues. His work will contribute to expanding research into the migration of Haitian and Berber Francophones to Canada.

Éloïse Brezault

Éloïse Brezault is a professor of Francophone and African studies at Saint Lawrence University (U.S.). Her research, which will be conducted in collaboration with faculty members and students from a variety of institutions across the French-speaking world, will study the construction of race and identity.

Julia Ndibnu-Messina Ethé

Professor Julia Ndibnu-Messina Ethé, from the University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), will explore bilingual and multilingual teaching, as well as the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching first and second languages at the elementary and high school levels, with an eye to strengthening learners’ professional skills and language fluency.

Nicolas Peyre

Nicolas Peyre is a teacher and researcher in communications and information science at the Institute in Space, Territories, Culture and Communications Law (IDETCOM), Toulouse 1 Capitole Université, France. His research will examine French soft diplomacy in Ottawa from a Francophone perspective and the global branding of France’s public museums within the Francophonie.

Denis Provencher

Denis Provencher, a professor of French and Francophone cultural studies and director of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona (U.S.), will conduct research on the experiences of diasporic racialized or immigrant Francophones who are queer and living in Canada.