A lecturer in the Department of Politics at the UC Santa Cruz since 2016, Thomas Serres obtained his PhD in Political Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, in 2013. A specialist on Algeria and North Africa, his research focuses on protests and crisis management, economic reforms, and the issue of sovereignty in the Mediterranean space. He is the author of L’Algérie face à la catastrophe suspendue: Gérer la crise et blâmer le peuple sous Bouteflika (1999-2014) (Coédition IRMC, 2019) and the co-editor of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture (Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2019, with Muriam Haleh Davis).
