Marion Demossier

About Marion Demossier

Marion Demossier has been a Professor of French and European Studies at the University of Southampton since 2011 after working at the University of Bath where she began her career in 1994. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Anthropology and Sociology at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris in 1995. She has since published several works on the anthropology of wine and more than fifty academic articles.

In collaboration with viticulture in France and New Zealand, she has also recently been part of the experts on the nomination of the Burgundy climates to UNESCO.

Marion Demossier is a reference for many international journals such as Economies et Sociétés, Ethnologies, Journal Italian Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Sociologia Ruralis…etc.

She has contributed to and organized over 50 conferences in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, and more recently, in Zambia and New Zealand. She has indeed been regularly invited as an expert in the wine industry in France and New Zealand over a period of twenty years. She has also appeared on national television and radio in England and France to discuss issues related to wine.