Manuela Latchoumaya

• 2024 – PhD in Sociology, University of Manchester
• 2019 - MSc in EU Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science and Sciences Po, Paris (2017-2019) 
• 2017 - BA in Social Sciences, Sciences Po, Paris (2014-2017) 

I am a Research Associate on the H-SIF-funded project ‘Constructing and Commemorating the Postcolonial Nation’, directed by Dr Meghan Tinsley. Drawing on post-colonial theory, memory studies and nationalism studies, the project investigates the multifaceted role of monuments in constructing the nation in post-independence Ghana, Guinea and Barbados, and in post-départementalisation Martinique. 

I completed my PhD in Sociology and Politics at the University of Manchester in 2024. My thesis explored the ways in which French citizens of Indian descent create new ways of ‘being French’, contesting official definitions equating Frenchness with whiteness.

My main research interests include the study of racisms and forms of anti-racism and resistance, diasporic identities, and whiteness. 

School of Social Sciences PhD Studentship - 2020-2023

First-year courses: 

SOCY10401 - Inequalities in Contemporary British Society (Semester 1)

SOCY10912 - Work, Organisations and Society (Semester 2)

Second-year courses:

SOCY20961 - Racism and Ethnicity in the UK (Semester 1) 

SOCY20032 – Work, Economy and Society (Semester 2) 

Third-year courses:

UCIL33201&33501 – Climate Change and Society (Semester 1)

Postgraduate courses:

UCIL60312 – Creating a Sustainable World