Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Nicolas Duriau, who recently completed a one-year postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, is the author of « Prostitués » avant la lettre ? (1783-1922). Écrire les prostitutions masculines au XIXe siècle (Classiques Garnier, Paris 2025), an essay analyzing how French-language writers referred to male prostitution before the term appeared in dictionaries at the beginning of the twentieth century.

As Dr. Duriau explains, he worked on this book “for nearly seven years (from a doctoral thesis project funded by the F.R.S.–FNRS to my first postdoctoral contract with the Fondation Wiener-Anspach at the University of Oxford)”.

In September 2025, Dr. Duriau was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher in Gender Literary Studies at ENS Lyon. More information on his research and publications is available here.

Ahmed Hamila has published Sortir du placard, entrer en Europe La fabrique des réfugiés LGBTI en Belgique, en France et au Royaume-Uni (Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2025). At the intersection of sociology, gender studies, and migration studies, it is the first, comprehensive comparative analysis of the situation of LGBTI refugees in Europe published in French.

A fellow of the FWA at the University of Oxford in 2016-2017, Ahmed Hamila completed a joint PhD between ULB and the University of Montreal. For this work, he received in 2020 the dissertation prize in Social Sciences from the University of Montreal. Dr. Hamila was also granted a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellowship in 2020–2021, this time to conduct research at the University of Cambridge. He is now Professor of Sociology at the University of Montreal (see his personal page on the university’s website).