Postdoctoral Researcher

  Université libre de Bruxelles
  Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales
  Centre de recherche Mondes Modernes & Contemporains
  Campus du Solbosch - CP 129/08
  Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50
  B-1050 Bruxelles

  fabrice.langrognet@ulb.be

BIO

Dr. Fabrice Langrognet is a historian of migration and asylum. His current research interests lie in bordering systems, socio-cultural identification dynamics, migrants' agency in norm production, as well as issues around housing, gender, age, and climate change. His first book appeared in English in 2022 as Neighbours of Passage and in French in 2023, under the title Voisins de passage. In 2024, the French edition was awarded the Grand Prix des Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire de Blois.

Research interests

  • History of modern migration, history of refuge
  • History of working-class housing
  • Immigration and refugee law
  • Migration policies
  • Migration and climate
  • Epistemology of migration studies

CV

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (chargé de recherches) F.R.S.-F.N.R.S., Université libre de Bruxelles (2024-2027)
  • Leverhulme Research Fellow (Faculty of History) and William Golding Junior Research Fellow (Brasenose College), University of Oxford, United Kingdom (2021-2024).
  • Visiting Research Scholar and Fung Global Fellow, Princeton University (2020-2021)
  • Ph.D. in History and Gates Scholar, University of Cambridge (2014-2019)
  • Masters of Arts (M2), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2011-2012)
  • Student at École nationale d'administration (2008-2010)
  • Masters of Public Administration, Sciences Po (2005-2007)
  • B.A. and Masters of Arts (M1), École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines (2004-2006)

Recent publications