Jean Beaman

Jean Beaman (she/her) is an associate professor of sociology in the PhD program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). 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), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. She is also an associate editor of the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and a corresponding editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She was a 2022/23 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a co-principal investigator (Co-PI) for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant titled “Race, Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context” for 2020–2022.

Twitter: @jean23bean