Véronique Mottier is a Fellow, College Associate Professor and Director of Studies at Jesus College, Cambridge (since 1999) & Associate Professor at the Institut des Sciences Sociales/Centre Etudes-Genre, University of Lausanne (since 2006).
Having grown up in the Netherlands and Tunisia, she currently divides her time between the UK and Switzerland. Her university training was in French, Political Science and Sociology. She received a Certificat d’Etudes Françaises Modernes, BA & MA in Political Science and 'licence' (BA) in Sociology from the University of Geneva, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge (Clare College), supervised by Anthony Giddens.
Her main research and teaching interests are in the areas of social theory, gender and sexuality, reparatory justice and discourse/narrative analysis. She has taught summer schools in Discourse Theory and Analysis at the ECPR Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection at the University of Essex (1999-2006), the European University Institute in Florence (2001-2006), and the Swiss PhD Summer School in Advanced Methods in the Social Sciences in Lugano (since 1999-). She has delivered guest lectures at many other universities, including the University of the West Indies (Mona/Jamaica), Makerere, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Pune (India), Oxford, Hamburg, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dundee, Leeds, Lille, Loughborough, Luzern, UCM (Maastricht), Neuchâtel, Roskilde, UCL (London), Basel, Geneva and Zürich.
