Jean Beaman

Jean Beaman is an assistant 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 focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both the United States and France. Her first book, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France, about children of immigrants, marginalization, cultural citizenship, and racism in France, was published with the University of California Press in 2017. She is also an associate editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and corresponding editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.