Céline A. Jacquemin, Ph.D.

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
M.A., University of California, Irvine
B.A., California State University, Fullerton

Undergraduate

First Year Seminar: Empowerment
International Relations Theory
Civic Engagement and Social Action
American Political Thought
African Politics
Nations in Transition
Sustainable Human Development
International Law & Treaties
Understanding Global Affairs

Graduate

African Security Issues
International Relations Theory
Human Rights

Céline A. Jacquemin, Ph.D., or “Doctor Céline”, as she is known by her students, is a Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. She has pursued her academic research focused on Africa, and more specifically, on Rwanda, since 1996.

She has lived and traveled through the Northern and Eastern regions of the African Continent. She also remains actively engaged with African Diasporas in the United States. She moderated the panel of experts at the Texas Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2026, to commemorate the 32^nd Anniversary of the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi in Rwanda.

She presented at both the United Nations in New York and at the US Capitol in Washington DC in April 2024 for the 30^th Commemorations of the 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi in Rwanda when she presented her publication about “How Rwanda Transformed Identity Post Genocide” in which she explains the work done by Rwandans in coordination with their leaders and government, where the entire Rwandan population has transformed their identity to fight genocide ideology (in Identity Politicization and Transformation in Africa: Shifting Mobilization 2022).

Jacquemin has been serving as the Special Assistant to the Provost for Partnerships to facilitate the process for the review of Memoranda of Understandings. She works alongside the Vice President for Enrollment Management, Ryan Konkright and Delia Von Muldau, Business Process Analyst for the Provost’s Office, who together lead the Dual Credit Program Coordination Team since July 2025. Her prior roles include serving as Associate Dean in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2009 to 2019 and as Chair of the Department of Political Science from 2017 to 2020.

Jacquemin has hosted major events at St. Mary’s for both Ambassador Kimonyo in 2007 and Ambassador Mukantabana in 2017. In 2024, Jacquemin joined Henriette Mutegwaraba in Houston to support the Voices of Resilience Conference. Jacquemin remains dedicated to her research and work that helps shed light on the very difficult but worthwhile everyday choices that help Rwandans and other populations African Diasporas resist genocide ideology around the world.

Her recent publications include in 2022 her edited volume with Professor Toyin Falola: Identity Politicization and Transformation in Africa: Shifting Mobilization. In 2019, she contributed a chapter entitled “Kabyle Resistance and Berber Oppression” in Oppression and Resistance in African and the Diaspora, edited by Kenneth Kalu and Toyin Falola for the series published by Routledge on Global Africa; in 2016 a chapter on “The Politics of Mixing Evangelizing with Education & Development: Marianist Projects in Kenya” in Contentious Politics in Africa: Identity, Conflict, and Social Change edited by Toyin Falola and Wanjala Nasong’o, by Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

In 2015, Jacquemin published several works that focused on Rwanda from looking back at the roots of the Rwandan Genocide in “Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Colonial and Post-Colonial Roots of the Rwandan Genocide” in The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: From Grievance to Violence edited by Wanjala S. Nasong’o, Palgrave Macmillan. (October) to documenting the very promising progress made by Rwandans in her chanter published in August, 2015: “Rwandan Government & Diaspora: Harnessing the Power of Institutions Built for Unity & Democracy” in Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations: Connecting Old and New Diasporas to the Homeland edited by T. Falola and D. Sanchez, Cambria Press Inc. Her short work in spring 2015 “Why do YOU study Genocide?” Pecan Grove Review, Volume XVI recounts her conversation with Professor Ervin Staub about the roots of their common interest in studying Genocide.

In 2014, she shared an introspective piece about the road to training in self-defense “Fulfilling my Wildest Dream” Pecan Grove Review, Volume XV

In 2013, she established her expertise on the relationship between France and Rwanda with her chapter: “14. French Foreign Policy in Rwanda: Language, Personal Networks, and Changing Contexts” in The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa edited by Toyin Falola and Jessica Achberger, Taylor and Francis.

Her earlier publications include: “Female Genital Cutting: shattering the debate yet still violating human rights” published in Revista Espaco Academico April 2010 and “Allied against all odds to fight genocide: How far has the US come?” Revista Espaco Academico November 2008. She also co-authored a chapter with Alison Brysk“Bridging Borders for Human Rights” in Transnational Civil Society edited by Batliwala and Brown and published by Kumarian Press in 2006.