Welcome to my website!
 

My name is Estelle E. Brun and I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Boston University (BU). I specialize in Comparative Politics and Political Theory and my research focuses on the interactions between electoral politics and the politics of memory. My dissertation investigates how institutional memory influences political behavior in the United States and France, combining ethnographic and experimental methods. I completed fieldwork in South Carolina and, for the rest of the year, I am conducting fieldwork in Paris and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

 

In addition to the politics of memory, I study politics in nominally non-political spaces and specifically the relationship between political behavior and popular culture. These side projects have focused on the Eurovision Song Contest, football politics, and sports diplomacy. They fall under the broader topic of "culture wars" in advanced democratic regimes, which I study through various epistemological approaches.

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I have been a teaching fellow for political theory and comparative politics courses at BU as well as the instructor of record for the Introduction to Comparative Politics course in the summer of 2025. In the spring of 2027, I will teach a graduate-level seminar on European Politics and Culture.

 

Prior to joining Boston University, I obtained a Master of Science in Comparative Politics with Distinction from the London School of Economics (LSE) and worked for two years at the Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS), a Paris-based think tank.