Sophie Body-Gendrot (30 October 1942 – 21 September 2018) was a French political scientist, criminologist and sociologist who specalised in security issues, urban violence, social inequality, and the discrimination young migrants suffered in the cities of Europe and America.
[1][2] She took up the post as a reader in the English town of Walsall and then taught at the American Overseas School of Rome between 1964 and 1965.
[2] Following her training as an Americianist and a political scientist,[2] she worked as a lecturer at the North American Centre of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences between 1982 and 1984.
[3] In 1986, she began working at Sciences Po as a lecturer,[4] and a year later, served as Director of Middlebury College in Paris for 100 graduate and undergraduate students until 1987.
[2][3] In 1991, following her being enrolled on the Fulbright Program in the United States, Body-Genrot began working at Paris-Sorbonne University until 2011.
[4][6] Body-Gendrot was an expert of the Urban Age project at the London School of Economics from 2004,[1][6] and for the European Union from 2009 and for the Council of Europe from 2012.
[4] She was the author or co-editor of more than 20 books in English and French as well as over 150 chapters and academic articles on security issues, urban violence, social inequality, and the discrimination young migrants suffered in the cities of Europe and America.