Professor Marion Demossier DEUG, BA, MA, PhD
Professor of French and Social Anthropology, Former HoD 2015-1018,REF Champion
Professor Marion Demossier is a Professor in French and Social Anthropology at the University of Southampton.
Passionate about Ethnography and Interdisciplinarity, Southampton is the best place for it
Marion Demossier is a socio-anthropologist by training while having developed her career in Modern Languages Departments. She is passionate about teaching ethnography as a modern languages method and believes that ethnographic theories and practices provide a unique mode of analysis of contemporary cultures and societies. Her research seeks to engage with different forms of ethnographies in diverse geographic locations, at different historical junctures and across humanities and social sciences.
Marion Demossier is Professor of French and Anthropology in Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton. She was Head of Department from 2015-2018. She has previously taught French and European politics and society since 1994 at the University of Bath. She holds a Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the EHESS (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris.
She has published three monographs, 4 edited volumes and more than twenty scholarly articles in leading academic journals in Britain, France and the United-States, including the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Cultural Analysis, the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures and Modern and Contemporary France. She has also written widely for a student audience, contributing chapters to prestigious series such as A companion to the Anthropology of Europe or Culinary Taste. She has been involved as expert with the wine industry in France and New Zealand over a period of twenty-five years.
She is regularly invited to lecture at international conferences and has appeared on both television and national radio in the UK and France to discuss issues related to her work. She is currently on the ESRC Peer Review Panel member ‘Anthropology of Europe’ since 2010- reappointed until 2019 and sits on the UNESCO Climats de Bourgogne scientific Committee member and is a member of the UNESCO network Chair Culture of Wine, Dijon since 2006.