Biography
Dr Maxime Jaffré is currently Assistant Professor at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). Before joining UAEU, Dr Maxime Jaffré worked as Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), at the Centre Norbert Elias in Marseille, France. He holds a PhD in sociology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). He defended a PhD thesis entitled “The globalization of culture and the spirit of Arabic music: a sociology of scholarly Arabic musical forms decontextualized in France and in the US”.
Dr Maxime Jaffré also worked as research assistant at the University of Chicago with Prof. Terry Nichols Clark, where he analyzed the social and political dynamics of cities and culture in France and internationally. Since 2013, he is involved in the ANR-Curricula research project funded by the French National Research Agency (500K€), which aims at analyzing the reorganization of cultural institutions in cities designated “European Capitals of Culture” in four European countries (France, Sweden, Poland and Italy). Since 2018, he is working on a research project on "Multiculturalism and Tolerance in the UAE" founded by the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU).
*Dr Maxime Jaffré is attached to more than one section of the International Academic Advisory Board.
