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My name is David Koussens and I am an assistant professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) where I hold the Research Chair on Religions in Advanced Modernity. My research interests are in sociology of religion, politics and religion, sociology of law and law and society.

I received a PhD in sociology from the Université du Québec à Montréal in january 2011. My thesis is titled “State Neutrality and Regulation of Religious Diversity in Quebec and France”.

I was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in 2010-2011 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal in 2011. I also have done research as a Visiting Scholar at the Groupe-Sociétés-Religions-Laïcités/CNRS (2008), at the London School of Economics (2011) and at the Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs, UC, Berkeley (2012)

A lawyer by training, I previously held legal positions at the French Conseil d’État as well as at the French Ministry of Culture