Bruno Perreau

Bruno Perreau (PhD, Paris I Sorbonne) is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Faculty Affiliate at the Center for European Studies, Harvard.

Perreau received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne and taught at Sciences Po and the University of Paris Val de Marne. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (Jesus College); a Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center; a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford).

He received awards from the British Academy, the European Commission, the European University Institute, the French government, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Perreau is the founding chair of the MIT Global France Seminar and the French+ Initiative, now Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies. french.mit.edu

He is the author of ten books on political institutions and ideas, bioethics, gender in translation, and queer theory. He has recently published The Politics of Adoption (MIT Press, 2014), Queer Theory: The French Response (Stanford University Press, 2016), Les Défis de la République (coedited with Joan W. Scott, Presses de Sciences Po, 2017), and Qui a peur de la théorie queer ? (Presses de Sciences Po, 2018). He is currently finishing a new book on minority politics in France and the US.