Jérémy JAMMES
Director of IRASEC
Director of IRASEC from 2025
Deputy director from 2010 to 2014
Dr Jérémy Jammes, Director of IRASEC since September 2025, is Professor in Social Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, working at the Lyon Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Lyon) before his move to IRASEC. He obtained his PhD (with Distinction) in 2006 in Social anthropology (Paris X), and his Habilitation à diriger des recherches (INALCO) in 2019. He was Director of International relations at Sciences Po Lyon (2023-25), Director of the research Institute of Asian Studies (2016-18) in Brunei and editor-in-chief of the Springer Book Series ‘Asia in Transition’ (2017-19). Between 2010 and 2014, he worked as Deputy Director and Head of Publications of the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) in Bangkok. He is an active researcher specializing on Southeast Asian geopolitics and religions. Beside his monograph on Caodaism, Les oracles du Cao Đài. Étude d’un mouvement religieux vietnamien et de ses réseaux (Les Indes savantes), he is the co-editor of Chrétiens évangéliques d’Asie du Sud-Est : Expériences locales d’une ferveur conquérante Est (with Pascal Bourdeaux, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016), Muslim Piety as Economy : Markets, Meaning and Morality in Southeast Asia (with Johan Fischer, Routledge, 2020), and also Fieldwork and the Self : Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia (with Victor T. King, Springer, 2021). He has been the (co-)editor of the geopolitical regional outlook L’Asie du Sud-Est. Bilan, enjeux et perspectives for three years. His publications have also appeared in international refereed journals including Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, TAJA-The Australian Journal of Anthropology, SOJOURN : Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Hérodote, Péninsule, Social Compass, among others.
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