Jean Beaman

Jean Beaman is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), with affiliations in Black studies, political science, feminist studies, global studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research. Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state violence in both France and the United States. She is the author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017). She was a 2022/23 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and was a co-principal investigator (Co-PI) for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, “Race, Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context,” for 2020–2022.

Twitter: @jean23bean