In 2021-22, I am
Visiting Scholar au Graduate Center, City University of New York and at the
Institute of French Studies, New York University.
I am a sociologist,
Directrice de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) [CNRS research professor]. Since 2011, I've been a faculty member of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs – a Research Center affiliated to the CNRS, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris.
Prior to my CNRS position, I was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the Institute of French Studies, NYU (2009-2011), where I returned to teach as a Visiting Professor in 2017.
I teach graduate seminars at
Sciences Po Paris, and I am a board member of the Sociology of gender and sexuality master's program at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (
EHESS).
My research interests lie at the intersection of political sociology, the sociology of gender and race, and the sociology of work/organizations.
I am the author or co-author of several books, including a French handbook in gender studies,
Introduction aux études sur le genre (co-authored with S. Chauvin, A. Jaunait and A. Revillard, 3
rd edition, 2020). My first research book,
La bataille de la parité (
The battle for gender parity), which was published in 2015 (Paris, Economica), explores the campaigns that led to the adoption of the gender parity reform in France, which mandated a 50% gender quota on electoral lists. Based on my reflection on this case, I introduced the concept of
women's cause field [espace de la cause des femmes], which offers new theoretical insights on the architecture of collective protest in an era of social movement institutionalization.
In the last past years, I have conducted a
comparative study of diversity & inclusion offices in large multinational companies based in the New York and Paris areas. The book manuscript drawing from this research, titled
Diversity Mean Business? Les ambivalence de la diversité à New York et à Paris, will come out with the Presses de Sciences Po in 2022.
I am currently leading a collective research project (
ProVirCap) funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and involving a team of nine scholars (2021-2025). Based on the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the ProVirCap project offers a
innovative take on “responsible capitalism” by placing the lens on its managers, their work activities, and their professional environments in the United States, France, and Spain.
Recent publications:
"Les stigmates de la vertu. Légitimer la diversité en entreprise, à New York et à Paris",
Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 241, 2022.
"The women's cause in a field: rethinking the architecture of collective protest in the era of movement institutionalization",
Social Movement Studies, 20(2), 2021.
"La valeur professionnelle de l'identité. Racialisation, genre et légitimité managériale à New York et à Paris",
Sociétés contemporaines, 117, 2020 [avec Camille Noûs].
"Servir l'entreprise ou la changer? Les responsables diversité entre gestion, critique et performance de la vertu",
Revue française de sociologie, 60(2), 2019 [avec Dorothée Prud'homme].
