Laure Neumayer (born 1973) is a French political scientist. She is a
maîtresse de conférences at the
University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and a senior researcher of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. She is particularly known for her work on the
politics of memory, especially related to
post-communist
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states in Central Europe. Her early work focused on the
enlargement of the European Union and the
Europeanization
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*The process in which a notionally non-European subject (be it a culture, a language, a city or a nation) adopts a number ...
of Central European states, and she has written on
Euroscepticism. Between 1997 and 2002 Neumayer was a member of the French Centre for Social Science Research in Prague, in spring of 2002 a Junior Fellow at the Collegium Budapest-Institute for Advanced Studies, between 2013 and 2018 a Junior Member of the
Institut Universitaire de France
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and a visiting scholar at the
Harriman Institute
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of
Columbia University
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in
New York City
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in spring of 2018.
Selected works
*''The Criminalisation of Communism in the European Political Space after the Cold War'', Routledge, 2019
*''Criminaliser le passé ? La mémoire des passés autoritaires en Europe et en Amérique latine'', co-edited with Sophie Baby and Frédéric Zalewski, Presses Universitaires de Nanterre/L’Apprimerie, 2019.
*''History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Memory Games'', co-edited with Georges Mink, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
*''L’Europe contestée: Espaces et enjeux des positionnements contre l’intégration européenne'', co-edited with Antoine Roger and Frédéric Zalewski, Editions Michel Houdiard, 2008.
*''L’Europe et ses passés douloureux'', co-edited with Georges Mink, La Découverte, 2007.
*''L’enjeu européen dans les transformations postcommunistes'', 2006.
References
French political scientists
1973 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Women political scientists
Living people
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