Hélène Thiollet
Permanent Researcher, Sciences Po
Hélène Thiollet is a CNRS permanent researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po. She is a graduate of Ecole normale supérieure (Ulm A/L98), holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po, MA degrees in Geography and in Classics from La Sorbonne. She was previously a post-doc at Oxford university and a Teaching Fellow at Université Paris Nord.
Helene's main interests lie in the politics of migration and asylum in the Global South. She focuses her empirical work on the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. She also works on crises and political transformations linked to migration and asylum. She teaches international relations, comparative politics and migration studies at Sciences Po and EHESS.
She is a board member of Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, de Migration Politics et de PARISS (Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences) and member of the advisory board of Journal of Refugee Studies.