My research focuses on citizens and civil society engagement at the intersection of local, national, and international governance, with a focus on the performative dimension of rights claims. During my PhD, I examined local citizenship performances in Morocco, before moving to the study of learning trajectories of opposition actors across political spaces. Currently, I work on the repertoires of the Catalan independence movement within the Sovereign Performance project at Ghent University.

Before joining Ghent University, I taught courses on politics and international relations at the American College of the Mediterranean (France). I obtained a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands) after graduating from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree “Crossing the Mediterranean: Towards Investment and Integration” (MIM; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Université Paul Valéry Montpellier). My research has been published in different peer-reviewed journals, including Democratization and Mediterranean Politics, as well as various book chapters. I also worked as a consultant for local and international NGOs in Morocco.

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