PhD Student, Political Science
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Estelle Brun (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in political science and her research focuses on nationalism, popular culture, and political mobilization in Western democracies. Her dissertation investigates the relationship between the politics of memory and electoral politics in a comparative perspective between South Carolina and Southeastern France. To learn more about Brun’s research and publications, visit her webpage.
In Spring 2025, Estelle received a CISS Summer mini-grant to support her support her fieldwork in South Carolina, where she seeks to explore the politicization of the state’s memory through qualitative interviews and visits to war monuments and museums. This fieldwork will inform her dissertation, specifically the first step of her theory-building and the empirical chapter on the South Carolina/United States case study. Learn more in our featured article.
In Spring 2026, Estelle was awarded a summer mini-grant which will support undergraduate research assistance to start organizing and analyzing this original empirical data that was collected during her fieldwork in South Carolina.