Marion Demossier is a Senior Lecturer in French and European Studies. She has been trained as a socio-anthropologist in Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and has been a lecturer in Bath since 1994. She currently works on Europeanisation, Governance and territorial identities and develops her research on French memory, history and identity. Her interests are in national, regional and local identities and cultures, cultural theory, museums and heritage and politics in France and Europe.

As an anthropologist lecturing in a department of European studies, she is committed to applying an anthropological perspective to a variety of subjects. Her work is primarily interdisciplinary and she has always encouraged the crossing of boundaries between anthropology, sociology, economy, history, politics and cultural studies. She sees her work as a contribution to the anthropological study of France and Europe and as a means of engaging with the academic concerns of other disciplines, especially beyond academia.