Karène SANCHEZ SUMMERER

Karène SANCHEZ SUMMERER
Born: March 22, 1975 (Perpignan, France)
French
Married, 2 children
 [email protected]
Leiden University (Van Wijkplaats 2, 104b)
GW, LUCL
P O Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
+31 71 5272175
+31 71 5232040
June 16
Current Position
Sept 09-
Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent), Leiden University, The Netherlands
Previous Positions
Sept. 05- Sept 09
Nov. 06- Sept 08
Feb. 03 – June 06
Assistant Professor, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Assistant Professor, Utrecht university, The Netherlands
Lecturer and Faculty Mentor, Academic cooperation, Consulat Général de France à
Jérusalem
Sept. 02 – Sept 05 Détachée in Jerusalem, French Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (AEFE)
Research projects and Grants
Granted research projects
2017-2021: Co applicant of the successful international project ‘Christian missions and societies in the
Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization; XIXth-XXIth centuries’ (in cooperation with EFR
Rome Ecole française, IFEA Istanbul Institut français d’Etudes anatoliennes, IFAO Cairo Institut
français d’archéologie orientale, IFPO Amman Institut français du Proche-Orient, FSCIRE Bologna
Fundazione per le Science Religiose Giovanni XXIII)
2015-2018: Main applicant of the successful NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research) Internationalization project ‘Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and
humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)’ (in cooperation with IEG Mainz Leibniz Institute of
European History and IISMM Paris Institute for the Studies of Islam et Muslim Societies)
2012-2017: Co applicant of the successful NWO Open Competition project ‘Arabic and its alternatives.
Religion and Language Change in the Formative Years of the Modern Middle East (1920-1950)’
2012-2014: Participant in the Research project and network (UK, AHRC Arts and Humanities Research
Council) ‘Towards a History of Modern Language Teaching and Learning’, specialization: European
missionaries in the Levant 2008-2011: Participant in the successful CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) ANR
(Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) International project ‘Archiver: les pratiques historiographiques
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dans le Moyen-Orient contemporain. Faiseurs d’histoire, faiseurs d’archives’ (LAU-IIAC, UMR 8177,
CNRS-EHESS-Culture)
2009: Participant in the project Fonds d’Alembert (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) ‘Etudes
palestiniennes en France’
2006-2008: Main applicant of the successful French Ministry of Foreign Affairs archival project,
(Archivistes sans frontières- section France), ‘Archives de l’enseignement du français en Palestine’
2003-2006: Project of academic cooperation of FFL (French as Foreign Language) and history of
French in the Levant ‘New archives and preservation of francophone heritage of the Ottoman and
British Palestine’, French Ministry of Education and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Awards & Grants
LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies), Visiting Fellow Grant (May 2016)
Fellowship ‘Senior Researcher’, IEG (Leibniz Institute of European History), Universität Mainz
(February 2015)
NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Aspasia research Grant (LUCL/ LIAS
Leiden Institute for Areas Studies; September 2015)
Huizinga Institute for Cultural History conference grant (June 2015)
LUF (Leiden University Fund) conference grants (2009 and 2015)
LUCL (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) conference grants (2009, 2011, 2015)
LUCL (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) field trips grants (2010, 2011, 2012)
RFN (Réseau franco-neéerlandais; FR-NL Research institutes cooperation) conference grant (June
2015)
Department of Academic cooperation, French Embassy in the Netherlands, conference grants
(November 2012 and June 2015)
SIHFLES (Société internationale pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde) conference
grants (December 2009 and June 2015)
Scientific and Steering Committees
University of Algarve (Portugal), 2-3 July 2016, ‘Pedagogic innovations in foreign language teaching/
Innovations pédagogiques dans l’enseignement des langues étrangères’ (member of the scientific
committee)
Leiden University, 15-17 June 2016, ‘Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious minorities and their
languages in the emerging Nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950)’ (NWO Open Competition
project 2012-2017)
Leiden University, 14-15 April 2016, ‘Missionaries and their apostolate, towards a humanitarisation?’
(organizer), first workshop of the NWO internationalisation project (2015-2018), ‘Engaging Europe in
the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)’
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Leiden University, 25-27 June 2015, ‘The Foreign linguistic and cultural policies of the European States
(XVIIIth-XXth centuries)/ Les politiques linguistiques et culturelles extérieures des Etats européens
(XVIIIe-XXe siècles)’ (member of the scientific and steering committees)
Leiden University, April 2015, ‘Arabic and its alternatives’ workshop, Prof. Peter Sluglett (coorganizer)
SIHFLES (Société internationale pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde) and INRP,
November 2014 (Paris), Se former à enseigner à l’étranger dans les espaces francophones- réseaux
religieux, réseaux laiques (member of the scientific committee)
SOAS (School of Oriental studies)/ INALCO (Institut national des Langues et cultures orientales), 1215 June 2014 (Paris), Language and ideology in language teaching and learning (member of the
scientific committee)
Leiden University, April 2014, ‘Arabic and its alternatives’ workshop, Prof. Yasir Suleiman,
‘Language, religion and identity in Palestine/ Israel’ (co-organizer)
Leiden University, September 2013, ‘Common Ground, Jews and Christians in the modern Middle
East’, NWO and LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for the study of Islam en Society) (co-organizer)
IEG (Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany), July 2013, Workshop ‘Humanitarism and
missions in the Middle East’ (co-organizer)
SIHFLES/ Institut français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, November 2012, ‘Histoire de l’enseignement du
français aux Pays-Bas: diffusion, didactique, enjeux culturels’ (co-organizer and member of the
scientific committee)
GMF (Gesamtverband Moderne Fremdsprachen), Essen (Germany), September 2012, ‘Français,
allemand et anglais, trois langues rivales entre 1850 et 1945’ (member of the scientific committee)
Leiden University, December 2009, ‘La langue française et les catholiques du Levant: une langue des
minorités devenue minoritaire (1870- 1960)? (member of the scientific and steering committee)
Publications
Books, books chapters
26.
Sanchez, K.; ‘The imagined Catholic oecumene? Catholics of the Holy Land and Arabic (19181948)’, in H. Murre-van den Berg, Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities and their
languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950) (submission Autumn
2016).
25.
Sanchez, K.; ‘Official/ heritage language policies and European language teaching in Palestine
(1900-1950)’, in The History of Language Learning and Teaching (volume 3: Across Cultures).
Oxford: Legenda (accepted).
24.
Sanchez, K.; ‘Missionnaires britanniques en Palestine, experts/ contre-experts du Mandat?’ in
C. Verdeil, P. Bourmaud, N. Neveu (eds), Experts and Expertise in the League of NationsMandates: Figures, Fields, Tools (Karthala, submitted)
23.
Sanchez, K. and Frijhoff, W. (eds); ‘The Foreign linguistic and cultural policies of the European
States (XVIIIth-XXth centuries)’, Amsterdam university Press, series Languages and Culture in
History, 2016 (in print).
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22.
Sanchez, K. and Frijhoff, W.; ‘Plurilingualism, national & cultural identities 16th-19th
centuries’, introduction, Amsterdam University Press, series Languages and Culture in History,
2016 (in print).
21.
Sanchez, K., ‘L’Archiconfrérie du Très Saint Enfant de Palestine ottomane et mandataire.
Soutiens spirituels internationaux et locaux à la ‘croisade pour l’éducation religieuse de
l’enfance et la jeunesse’, in C. Marin (ed.), Les soutiens spirituels aux missionnaires et à la
mission XVIIe-XXe s, Karthala, Paris, Histoires des mondes chrétiens, 2016, p 173-196.
20.
Sanchez, K.; ‘Preserving Catholics of the Holy Land or integrating them into the Palestine
nation? Catholic communities, language, identity and public space in Jerusalem (1920-1950)’,
in Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East, H.
Murre-van den Berg & S. Goldstein-Sabbah (eds), 2016, p 121-151, Brill, Leiden, The
Netherlands.
19.
Sanchez, K.; ‘Education, civilisation et religion pour la ‘régénération de la femme orientale’L’enseignement du français pour jeunes chrétiennes, musulmanes et juives en Palestine
ottomane et mandataire (1870-1939)’, Mélanges en l’honneur de M.J. Saléma, APEF, 2013
(accepted).
18.
Sanchez, K.; ‘Entre négligence et secret. Entreprises archivistiques en Palestine’, in C. Jungen
and J. Sfeir (eds), Archiver au Moyen-Orient, Paris, Karthala, collections de l’IISMM, 2016 (in
print).
17.
Sanchez, K.; Action sanitaire et éducative en Palestine ottomane et mandataire : missionnaires
catholiques et anglicans, Missionnaires en Terre d’Islam, Brepols, 2011, p. 231-282.
16.
Sanchez, K.; Ouvrir les trésors de la charité aux enfants dévoyés d’Abraham - L’action
éducative des sœurs de Sion en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1860-1948), L’enseignement
français en Méditerrannée- Les missionnaires et l’Alliance israélite universelle, Presses
Universitaires de Rennes, 2010, p. 207-238.
15.
Sanchez, K.; Politiques, éducation et identités linguistiques; le collège des frères des écoles
chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939), LOT 207, ISBN 978-90-78328-84-1, 405 p.
International (refereed) journals
14.
Sanchez, K. & Moeller, E., Girls’ education, religion and French cultural policy. The Alliance
Israélite Universelle in Mandate Lebanon and Palestine, Paedagogica Historica (submission,
June 2016).
13.
Sanchez, K.; French, German and English: three rival languages and pedagogies towards
language teaching in the Holy Land (1905-1925), Porta linguarum, (submission- Autumn
2016).
12.
Sanchez, K.; Linguistic diversity and ideologies among the Catholic minority in Mandate
Palestine. Fear of confusion or powerful tool?, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
BJMES special issue coordinated by J. Tejel and B. White, ‘The Fragments imagine the
Nation’, vol 43, issue 2, 2016, 191-205.
11.
Sanchez, K.; Education, Linguistic Policies and Identity building process under pressure- The
impacts of the French Catholic Schools in Palestine (1908-1968), ARAM Periodical, vol 25,
Peeters, 2016,195-214.
10.
Sanchez, K.; Pour Dieu et la Patrie. Formation des missionnaires français envoyés au Levant
(1880-1940)- le cas des Frères des écoles chrétiennes, DHFLES, n°55, 2015, 83-99.
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9.
Sanchez, K.; Réception et impacts de l’action éducative et sanitaire des sœurs de Saint Joseph
(Naplouse) et des sœurs de Sion (Jérusalem) par les populations musulmanes rurales et urbaines
(1870-1940), in Beligand N., Bourmaud, P. (Eds.) Histoire et Missions chrétiennes, vol. 22,
2013, Paris, Karthala, p. 163-195.
8.
Sanchez, K.; Kok, MC ; Le facteur religieux dans la diffusion du français, Recherches et
Applications, FDM, n°51, CLE International, 2011, p 49-61.
7.
Sanchez, K.; Le triptyque Langue/ Education/ Religion en Palestine ottomane et mandataire,
Sociolinguistica n°25, De Gruyter, 2011, p 66-80.
6.
Sanchez, K.; La langue française et les catholiques palestiniens: une langue des minorités
devenue minoritaire (1870- 1960)?, DHFLES, n°45, n° coordinated by K. Sanchez Summerer
and G. Kahn, February 2011, p 17-42.
5.
Sanchez, K.; L’enseignement du français au sein des écoles catholiques françaises pour filles en
Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1870-1939), ICHOLS XI proceedings (International
Conference on the History of the Language Sciences), Nodus Publikationen, 2011, p 152-160.
4.
Sanchez, K.; Les langues entre elles dans la Jérusalem ottomane (1880-1914), DHFLES, n°42,
2010, p. 119-143.
3.
Sanchez, K.; Les élites francophones du collège des frères de la Salle de Jérusalem, entre
instrumentalisation politique, usages religieux et construction identitaire (1922-39); DHFLES,
n°38-39, 2007, p. 107- 129.
2.
Sanchez, K.; Langue(s) et religion(s) en Palestine mandataire au sein des institutions éducatives
catholiques (1922-1940); Etablissements des frères des Ecoles chrétiennes et des sœurs de Saint
Joseph de l’Apparition; DHFLES, n°37, 2006, edit. March 2008, p. 93-132.
1.
Sanchez, K.; Elites francophones du collège des frères de la Salle de Jérusalem (1890-1939),
entre instrumentalisation politique et usages religieux; Revue d’études balkaniques, n°2, 2007,
p. 63- 79.
Conference Papers
2016
47. IEG, Leibniz Institute of European History, Conference Menschen – Bilder – Eine Welt.
Menschenbilder in Missionszeitschriften aus der Zeit des Kaiserreichs, Mainz, 6-8 October 2016, Paper:
‘For God and the Kaiser? German missionaries, images and European concurrence in the Holy Land
(1880-1920)’
46. Leiden University, Conference Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages
in the emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950), Leiden, 15-17 June 2016, introduction:
‘The imagined Catholic oecumene? Catholics of the Holy Land and Arabic (1918-1948)’
45. Leiden University, NWO project Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and
humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970), Leiden, 14-15 April 2016, introduction: ‘Missionaries
and their apostolate, towards a humanitarisation?’
44. ESSHC (European Social Science History Conference), Panel Comparing Educational Reform in
the Middle East and East Asia during the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, Valencia, 1-2th
April 2016, Paper: ‘Education, Languages and Power in Missionary schools in Palestine (1905-1925)
43. ZECO (Zentrum zur Erforschung des Christlichen Ostens- Center for the Study of Eastern
Christianity), Middle Eastern Christians and Europe: Diasporas - Relations - Entangled Histories,
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Salzburg, 18-19 February 2016, Paper: ‘Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries
and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)’
42. EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), séminaire Chrétiens d’Orient
(B.Heyberger), Paris, 27 January 2016, Paper: ‘Les enjeux de la présence missionnaire britannique à
Hébron: de la ville des Patriarches aux portes du sud de la Palestine musulmane (1900-1950)’
2015
41. Leiden University, Introduction, ‘The Foreign linguistic and cultural policies of the European States
(XVIIIth-XXth centuries)/ Les politiques linguistiques et culturelles extérieures des Etats européens
(XVIIIe-XXe siècles)’, Leiden, 25-27 June 2015
40. INALCO/ Institut universitaire de France/ IFPO (Institut francais du Proche-Orient), Paris, 25-27
March 2015, Experts and Expertise in the League of Nations- Mandates: Figures, Fields, Tools, Paper:
‘Missionnaires britanniques en Palestine, experts/ contre-experts du Mandat?’
39. IEG, Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Forschungsbereichs Bewältigung von
Differenz: Vorstellung von Humanität und humanitäre Praktiken, 10th February 2015, Paper: ‘A
humanitarian mission in the Holy Land? The challenges of the sanitary action of the Jerusalem East
mission Fund in Palestine (1918–1938)’
2014
38. CNRS/ INRP (Institut national de la recherche pédagogique), Paris, 27-29 November 2014, Se
former à enseigner à l’étranger dans les espaces francophones- réseaux religieux, réseaux laiques,
Paper: ‘Pour Dieu et la patrie. Formation des missionnaires français envoyés au Proche-Orient (18801940)’
37. MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association), Washington DC, 21-25 November 2014, Panel
Minorities and formation of Modern Arab States, Paper: ‘The Catholic minority and the political
mobilization in Palestine 1918-1960’
36. WOCMES (World Congress of Middle East Studies) IV, Ankara, August 2014, Chair of Christians
of the Middle East panel; Paper: ‘Language, identity and the Catholics of the Holy Land: the case of the
Melkite community (1920-1950)’
35. AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) UK, 2-5 July 2014, Nottingham, Connecting
Cultures? An international conference on the history of teaching and learning foreign/second
languages, Paper: ‘Official/ heritage language policies, transnational communities and European
language teaching in Palestine (1900-1950)’
34. SOAS/ INALCO (School of Oriental studies), Paris, 12-15 June 2014, Language and ideology in
language teaching and learning, Paper: ‘Modernization and ideologies in Language teaching in British
Palestine (1918-1948)’
2013
33. Université de Paris Sorbonne, Enfance, jeunesse, éducation et société, XIXe-XXIe siècles (Prof.
Jean-Noël Luc), Paper: ‘Langue, religion(s) et systèmes éducatifs en Palestine ottomane et mandataireconsidérations interdisciplinaires’
32. The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Switzerland), November
2013, The fragments imagine the Nation? Minorities in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East,
Poster: ‘Arabic and its alternatives during the formative years of The Middle East (1920-1950)’
31. LUCIS and NWO research network Arabic and its alternatives, Leiden, September 2013, Paper:
‘Bringing the inhabitants of Palestine together or preserving Catholics of the Holy Land? Catholic
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communities, language, identity and public space in Jerusalem (1920-1950)’
30. Research network Towards a History of Modern Language Teaching and Learning (UK Arts and
Humanities Research Council), Warwick (UK), June 2013, ‘French and British educational influences
in the Middle East (XIXth century- 1960)’
29. INALCO/ SOAS, Paris, April 2013, Trajectoires professionnelles et pratiques plurilingues des
enseignants de langues: paramètres historiques, Paper: ‘Missionnaires religieux et laiques de la
République: relecture et revision de profils et trajectoires des ‘possibles’ au Proche-Orient’
2012
28. GMF, Essen (Germany), September 2012, ‘Anglais, français, allemand: trois langues rivales en
Terre sainte (1905-1925)’
27. CIEF (Conseil International d’Etudes francophones), Thessalonique (Greece), June 2012, ‘Entre
vocations universelle et nationale: l’éducation ‘régénératrice’ francophone pour filles de l’AIU de
Jérusalem (1906-1948)’
26. GRIEM (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les écrits missionnaires), Soutiens spirituels aux
missions, March 2012, Paper: ‘L’Archiconfrérie du Très Saint Enfant, entre soutiens spirituels locaux et
internationaux’
2011
25. University of Oxford, The Oriental Institut, Western Missions in the Levant, Oxford (United
Kingdom), July 2011, Paper: ‘Education, Linguistic Policies and Identity building process under
pressure- The impacts of the French Catholic Schools in Palestine (1908-1968)’
24. Universität Trier, Contact Zones – Conflict Zones. Räume kultureller Verflechtung, Workshop des
hkfz (Historisch-Kultuwissenschaftlichen Forschungszentrums), Trier (Germany), July 2011, Paper:
‘The missionaries’ establishments in British Palestine- Spaces of conflicts, space of coexistence’
23. CIEF (Conseil International des Etudes francophones), Aix en Provence (France), June 2010,
‘Education en français pour la ‘régénération’ de la femme orientale en Palestine ottomane et mandataire
(1870-1939)’
22. Research Network on the History of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Europe, Female
voices: women and foreign languages in modern Europe, Gargnano del Garda (Italy), June 2010, Paper:
‘Education, civilisation et religion pour la ‘régénération’ de la femme orientale- Les impacts de
l’enseignement du français pour filles des missionnaires catholiques en Palestine ottomane et
mandataire’
2010
21. NSMES (Nordic Society of Middle Eastern Studies), Middle Eastern Connectivities, Bergen
(Norway), September 2010, Paper: ‘The impacts of the French Catholic Schools in the Middle East
(1908-1950): The Palestinian case’
20. WOCMES III (World Congress on Middle East Studies), Barcelona (Spain), July 2010, Christians
of the Middle East panel, Paper: ‘The Sisters of Saint Joseph’s schools in Palestine (1908-1967)- The
Impacts of Catholic Missionary Education on Language, Religion and Identity in Palestine’
19. CIEF (Conseil International des Etudes francophones), Montréal (Canada), June 2010, ‘Construction
identitaire et éducation francophone en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1878- 1968)’
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18. EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes), Université de la Sorbonne, séminaire Chrétiens d’Orient
(B.Heyberger), Paris, March 2010, Paper: ‘Les collèges des frères des écoles chrétiennes de Palestine
ottomane et mandataire’
17. CME (Christians of the Middle East), Church State and Society, St Andrew University, February
2010, Paper: ‘From Jewish to Muslim conversion? Protestant missionaries in Hebron, 1922-1938’
2009
16. SIHFLES (Société Internationale pour l’Histoire du Français Langue étrangère et seconde),
International workshop, Leiden (the Netherlands), December 2009, Langue française, identité(s) et
école: le cas de la minorité catholique au Levant (milieu du XIXe-XXe siècles), Introduction:
‘Historigraphies et épistemologies en question’ and Paper: ‘La langue française et les catholiques
palestiniens: une langue des minorités devenue minoritaire (1870- 1940)?’
15. MAE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Fonds d’Alembert ‘Actualités des études palestiniennes en
France’, CNRS Ecole biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem and University of Birzeit;
Paper: ‘Langue(s), identité(s) et politiques linguistiques- Les collèges des Frères des écoles chrétiennes
de Palestine (1900-1948)’
14. CNRS, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales, CEIFR group UMR 8034, Centre
d’études interdisciplinaires des faits religieux), Fondation lieux de culte (S. Andezian, C. Décobert)
seminar, Paris, May 2009, Paper: ‘Le tombeau des patriarches d’Hébron, lieu de culte musulman et juifEnjeux antérieurs et postérieurs à la refondation de ce lieu saint (1920-2000)’
13. GRIEM (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les écrits missionnaires), International
conference Visages de femmes missionnaires en terre de mission, Paris, March 2009, Paper: ‘Réception
et impacts de l’action éducative et sanitaire des sœurs de Saint Joseph (Naplouse) et des Sœurs de Sion
(Jérusalem) par les populations musulmanes rurales et urbaines (1870-1940)’
12. CNRS, EMAM (Equipes Monde arabe et méditerranée, UMR 6173) International conference
Judaïsme, école et mission en Méditerranée à l’heure coloniale, Paper: ‘Ouvrir les trésors de la charité
aux enfants dévoyés d’Abraham - L’action éducative des Sœurs de Sion en Palestine ottomane et
mandataire (1860-1948)’, Tours, March 2009
11. CNRS, EHESS, Patrimoine et construction nationale palestiniennes (S. Andezian) seminar, Paris,
March 2009, Paper: ‘Patrimoine et politique, le cas de la ville d’Hébron (1920- 2000)’
2008
10. Research Network on the History of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Europe,
International Congress, Languages relations in Educative contexts (XVIth-XXth c.), Granada (Spain),
November 2008, Paper: ‘Les langues entre elles dans la Jérusalem ottomane (1880- 1914)’
9. CNRS, Research project Les fabriques de l’archive. ‘Faiseurs’ d’histoire et ‘faiseurs’ d’archives
dans le Moyen-Orient contemporain, Les filtres de montages ou le travail d’historiographisation de
l’archive, Paris, October 2008, Paper: ‘Tentatives d’entreprises historiographiques sur la Palestine
mandataire’
8. ICHOLS XI (International conference of the history of Language Sciences), Potsdam (Germany),
August 2008, Paper: ‘L’enseignement du français au sein des écoles catholiques françaises pour filles en
Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1870-1939)’
Second Paper ‘L’enseignement de la grammaire chez les Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Palestine
ottomane et mandataire (1878-1939): entre pragmatisme, religion et identités, une pédagogie
confessionnelle du français avancée ?’
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7. CNRS, EPHE (Ecoles Pratique des Hautes Etudes) Missions chrétiennes en terres d’Islam,
(B.Heyberger) seminar, Paris, June 2008, Paper: ‘Les ‘vierges de la montagne’ et la plume: l’action
éducative des Sœurs de Saint Joseph à Naplouse (1904-1939)’
2007
6. SIHFLES, International workshop, Langue(s) and religion(s): une relation complexe dans
l’enseignement du français hors de France XVIe-XXe siècles, Utrecht (The Netherlands), May 2007,
Paper: ‘Langue(s) et religion(s) en Palestine mandataire au sein des institutions éducatives catholiques
(1922-1940)’
5. IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient), EHESS, Identités autour de la méditerranée XIXe- XXe
workshop, Paris, September 2007, Paper: ‘Identités des villes intérieures de la Palestine mandataire, le
cas hébronite’
4. CNRS, EHESS, Palestine contemporaine, nouveaux champs de recherche français (S. Andézian)
seminar, Paris, June 2007, Paper: ‘Sources mandataires et locales, espaces et sociétés, 1918-1948’
2006
3. SIHFLES, International congress, Le français des élites, Istanbul (Turkey), November 2006, Paper:
‘Les élites francophones du collège des Frères de la Salle (1922-39)’
2. WOCMES II (World Congress on Middle East Studies), Amman (Jordan), June 2006, Paper:
‘Hebron, Nablus (1922-1939): Transformations of spaces and societies’
1. WOCMES II, Amman (Jordan), June 2006, Paper: ‘The francophone elites of the Collège des frères
de la Salle of Jerusalem (1922-39)’
Services to the Academic community
Edition & Reviews
- AUP (Amsterdam University Press), Languages and Culture in History, co-editor with Prof. Willem
Frijhoff
- DHFLES Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde (Scientific Board)
- Peer review: ERC, Language and History, DHFLES Documents pour l’histoire du français langue
étrangère et seconde
- Brill, Leiden, Theology and World Christianity, ICT Missionary archives digitalization project,
consultant
International, Professional membership
CME (Christians of the Middle East)
GRIEM (Groupe interdisciplinaire sur les écrits missionnaires)
HoLLT (History of Language Learning and Teaching)
LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies)
MESA (Middle East Studies Association)
NISIS (Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies)
SIHFLES (Société internationale pour l’histoire de français langue étrangère et seconde) General
Secretary (2009-2017)
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Leiden University, National
- Opleiding Commissie (Department Council, member, since 2014)
- International Studies BA (created in 2013), Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Program
implementations on Culture and Languages / areas (Europe; Middle East)
- Honours classes (created in 2016), Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Program
implementations on ‘Language, Culture and identity- French Worldwide’, ‘Colonisation,
Decolonisation and Francophonie in the Arabic world’, ‘The Francophone Maghreb’, ‘History,
diplomacy and identity- the Francophone case’
- French language and culture BA, Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Program implementations
on Francophony and the Arab world (2013-2017)
- Contact lecturer for the French language and culture Department of Faculty of Humanities, Leiden
University and the NIMAR (the Netherlands Institute in Marocco)
- Responsible for the renewal of the BA exams (according to the European framework, 2009-2012),
Leiden University Faculty of Humanities
- Dutch Humanities Faculties’ committee ‘Perspectives on Humanities in the Netherlands’ (June 2014),
member of the Leiden University board
- Trainer for Secondary education Teachers (Lerarenopleidingen, Nacholing for Leraren)
- Training for online academic education (Expertise Centrum Online Leren ECOLe)
Teaching
Honours & Awards
Leiden Top Teachers, 2015
Nominee for the University Teaching price (3 nominees), February 2014
Nominee for the Faculty of Humanities Teaching price (2 nominees), September 2014
Gratification reward (best employee), Gérard Tuning Institute, February 2006
Graduate courses
PhD programs and supervision
PhD seminar, PhD school of the international research project ‘Christian missions and societies in the
Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization (XIXth-XXIth centuries)’ (Rome, 2019)
PhD seminar INALCO School of Oriental languages and cultures (June 2014)
PhD seminar Warwick University (June 2013)
2 PhDs co-supervision in the NWO Open competition project with Prof. dr. H Murre van den Berg
(‘Arabic and its alternatives. Religion and Language Change in the Formative Years of the
Modern Middle East (1920-1950)’
MA seminars and supervision
MA thesis supervision, Leiden University (French Linguistic and Cultural policies in the Maghreb/
Machrek; mid XIXth-mid XXth c.; French missionaries in the Arab world during the colonial
period), from 2012
MA seminar, Sorbonne (March 2014)
MA seminar ‘Global christianities- Middle Eastern Christianities’ (1st semester 2013-2014, with Prof.
dr. H. Murre-van den Berg)
MA seminar ‘Langue arabe et islam dans la pensée française (1860-1960)’ (2d semester 2013-2014)
MA seminar ‘Politiques linguistique et culturelle de la France dans le monde arabe (1920-1970)’ (1st
semester 2012-2013)
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Honours classes
Excellence program Humanities Lab, BA2 and 3 (2d semester 2016-2017)
‘Language, Culture and identity- French Worldwide’, ‘Colonisation, Decolonisation and Francophonie
in the Arabic world’, ‘The Francophone Maghreb’, ‘History, diplomacy and identity- the
Francophone case’
Coordinator of the research internship FTC at NIMAR (Dutch Research Institute in Morocco)
Undergraduate courses
BA FTC thesis supervision, Leiden University
BA International studies internships supervision, Leiden University
History of minorities in the Middle East; European linguistic and cultural policies (colonial and post
colonial settings)
International studies BA, Middle East (1st semester 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-2016, 2016-2017),
‘Language policy, nationalism and identity’, ‘Language and conflicts’
International studies BA, Western Europe, (1st semester 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-2016, 2016-2017),
‘European linguistic imperialism and linguistic postcolonial settings’, ‘European
multilingualism’, ‘Language, power and identities’, ‘Language, power and migrations’
International studies BA, GLC (1st semester 2013-2014, 2014-2015), ‘Linguistic imperialism’,
‘Language and minorities’, ‘Language and religion’
International studies BA, thesis seminar (1st semester 2014-15), ‘Nationalism, religion, language and
identity- Orient/Occident XXth century’
History of the French cultural, linguistic and religious policies and interaction with the Arab world
(colonial and post colonial settings); minorities in the Middle East
French department, BA2 and 3 (1st semester 2016-2017), ‘Islam et monde arabe dans la pensée
française (1860-1960)’
French department, BA2 and 3 (2d semester 2015-2016), ‘Politique culturelle et diplomatie de la
langue. La France en Orient et les identités confessionnelles’
French department, BA2 and 3 (1st semester 2014-2015), ‘Politiques linguistique et culturelle de la
France dans le monde arabe (1900-1960)’
French department, BA2 and 3 (1st semester 2011-2012), ‘L’empire immatériel de la langue française en
méditerranée orientale (milieu du XIXe-milieu du XXe siècles)’
French department, BA2 and 3 (2d semester 2007-2008; 1st semester 2013-2014;), ‘La France au miroir
du Maghreb et du Levant’
Cultural and Colonial/ Post colonial History of France
French department, BA2 (2008-2012), ‘Des 30 Glorieuses aux 20 Piteuses- jalons d’histoire de la
France contemporaine’
French department, BA2 and 3 (2d semester 2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009), ‘Lieux de mémoire
français, l’exception française?’
French department, BA2 and 3 (2d semester 2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009), ‘Société française,
perspectives historiques et européennes- Cas d’étude: les immigrés’
French department, BA1, 2 and 3, ‘Oral expression’ and ‘Written expression’, B1 to C2 levels
Academic cooperation project, Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem (Feb. 04 - Aug. 06)
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Sept. 05- Aug. 06
Invited lecturer (History and FFL French as a Foreign Language), Jerusalem and
Palestinian territories
Feb. 04 – June 04
Lecturer (History), Academic cooperation on Humanities, Jerusalem and
Palestinian territories
BA and MA seminars: History of the FFL in Palestine/ Levant), British Palestine
Comparative history (France-England, mid XIX-XXth c.), The Age of Modernity (BA3)
Feb. 03 – June 05
Implementation and coordination of the BA and the minor programs French
Language, Culture and History, in cooperation with the Linguistic and Academic
Attachés, Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem
Education
Dec. 05 – May 09
PhD ‘Politiques, éducation et identités linguistiques; le collège des Frères des
écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939)’, Leiden University, The
Netherlands, LOT 207, ISBN 978-90-78328-84-1; under the supervision of
Prof. dr. Johan Rooryck (Leiden U.) and Prof. dr. Nadine Picaudou (Paris ISorbonne U.)
June 2011
BKO Basis Onderwijs Kwalificatie, Leiden University
Oct. 06 – Dec. 14
2d PhD ‘Servir dans le ‘district le plus fascinant de Palestine’ mandataire. Les
enjeux de la présence missionnaire dans le district d’Hébron (1918-1938)’, cum
laude, EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes), under the supervision of Prof.
dr. Bernard Heyberger (EPHE Sorbonne and EHESS Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales)
Sept.02 – Sept. 05
Arabic and Hebrew Language Trainings (advanced levels)
Sept. 98 – June 02
Preparation and tenure internship of the CAPES and Agrégation externe,
History, University Paris IV Sorbonne (didactic and pedagogy qualifications)
Oct. 97 – Oct. 98
Research Master History (DEA), University Paul Valéry, Montpellier III
(summa cum laude, research grant)
Master French as Foreign Language), University VD, Perpignan (cum laude)
Sept. 96 – June 97
Master (Maîtrise) History, University VD, Perpignan, (summa cum laude)
D.U. (Univ. diploma) Art and History, University VD, Perpignan (cum laude)
June 96
BA of History, University Via Domitia VD, Perpignan (cum laude)
Languages
French
native speaker
English
fluent, T.O.E.F.L. (Test of English as Foreign Language), C.P.E (Cambridge
Proficiency in English), Academic Written English seminar (Leiden University)
Catalan
Intermediate
Dutch
Intermediate
German
Intermediate
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Italian
Intermediate
Spanish
Advanced
Arabic
Colloquial: advanced level (Syrian Lebanese Palestinian)
Classical: intermediate level (D. École Biblique et Archéologique, Jerusalem) and
DULCO 2 (Diplôme Universitaire de Langue et civilisation orientales), INALCO, Paris
Hebrew
Advanced level Modern Hebrew (University of Jerusalem, 2002-2004)
Latin
High school (Literary section) and University, BA History- minor Classical Languages
Archival research projects and expertise
Projects of Preservation
- CNRS ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) International project ‘Archiver: les pratiques
historiographiques dans le Moyen-Orient contemporain. Faiseurs d’histoire, faiseurs d’archives’
(LAU-IIAC, UMR 8177, CNRS-EHESS-Culture)
- Digitalization project of the French Catholic Educative missionaries Archives (Ottoman and British
Palestine)
- Endangered Archives Project, British Library, Contact for Hebron Archives
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs archival project (Archivistes sans frontières- section France),
‘Archives de l’enseignement du français en Palestine’
Archival Research Expertise
France
Alliance Israélite Universelle- Paris
Archives nationales- Paris
CADN Centre des archives diplomatiques - Nantes
CAD MAE Centre des archives Diplomatiques du ministère des Affaires étrangères - Paris
Mission Laïque française - Paris
Oeuvres missionaires de la Propagation de la Foi – Lyon
Oeuvres d’Orient - Paris
Italy
Archivio del Pontificio Instituto Orientale
Archivio della Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali, Vatican
Archivio della Congregazione per l’Evangelizzazione dei Popoli o di Propaganda Fide, Vatican
Archivio della Segretaria di Stato, Vatican
Archivio Segreto del Vaticano
Archivio storico della Società Dante Alighieri - Rome
Brothers of the Christian schools - Maison Généralice via Aurelia, Rome
Sisters of Sion, Central archives, Trastevere Communal House - Rome
Jerusalem
Assumptionnist Archives
Brothers of the Christian Schools Archives
Central Zionist Archives
Christ Church Archives (Conrad Schick Library)
Custodia di Terra Santa Archives
Dominican Archives (Ecole bibliblique et archéologique)
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German Catholic Association of the Holy Land Archives (Paulus House dispensary & Schmidt School)
Israel State Archives
Jerusalem Municipal Archives
Latin Patriarchate Archives
Melkites Archives (Sainte Anne Convent)
Rosary Sisters Archives
Saint Joseph Sisters Archives
Sisters of Sion Ecce Homo Convent and Ein Kerem Archives
Palestinian Territories
Brothers of the Christian schools, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Haifa, Jaffa Archives
Hebron Municipal Archives
Hebron Waqf archives
Mu’assassat ihya’ al-turath wa al-bunuth al-Islamiyya, Institute for Islamic Research and Heritage
Revival (Awqaf Archives) Abu Dis
Nablus municipal Archives
Saint Joseph Sisters Archives, Bethlehem, Nablus
United Kingdom
Church Missionary Society Archives - Birmingham
Jerusalem East Mission Fund Archives, Saint Lambeth Palace - London
Imperial War Museum Military Archives - London
King’s College, Liddell Hart Centre Military Archives - London
National Library of Scotland, Scottish missionaries’ manuscripts- Edinburgh
Palestine Exploration Fund - London
Pembroke College - Oxford
PRO Public Record Office, National Archives - Kew London
Rhodes House, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African studies - Oxford
Saint Anthony’s College Middle East Centre Archives – Oxford
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