100 Notable alumni of
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
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The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is 317th in the world, 109th in Europe, and 9th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences won Nobel Prizes in Economics.
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Thomas Piketty
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- 1991-1993 graduated with doctorate in France in economics
- Occupations
- screenwriterwritereconomistresearch fellow
- Biography
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Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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Bruno Latour
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1987 graduated with habilitation
- Occupations
- professorsociologistwriterphilosopheranthropologist
- Biography
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Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.
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Esther Duflo
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- university teacherresearchereconomist
- Biography
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Esther Duflo, FBA is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
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Édouard Louis
- Occupations
- writereditor
- Biography
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Édouard Louis is a French writer and sociologist.
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Pap Ndiaye
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
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Pap Ndiaye is a French historian and politician who has been serving as France's ambassador to the Council of Europe since 2023.
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Caroline Fourest
- Occupations
- women's rights activistwriterfilm directorjournalist
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Caroline Fourest, is a French writer, film director, journalist, radio presenter at France Culture, and editor of the magazine ProChoix. She was also a columnist for Charlie Hebdo, for Le Monde until 14 July 2012, and she joined Marianne in 2016. She frequently appears on French media to discuss issues related to Muslims, feminism, Charlie Hebdo and Israel.
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Laure Adler
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1978 graduated with doctorate in France in study of history
- Occupations
- television producercollection managerwriterradio producerpublisher
- Biography
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Laure Adler is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer.
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Zineb El Rhazoui
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Zineb El Rhazoui, known mononymously as Zineb, is a Moroccan-French journalist. She was a columnist for the Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from 2011 to 2017, but was in Morocco during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.
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Tzvetan Todorov
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1966 graduated with doctorate in France in psychology
- Occupations
- geologistsemiologistliterary theoristhistoriancritic
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Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory.
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Bernard Stiegler
- Occupations
- philosopher
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Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis; the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel; and a co-founder in 2018 of Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers". His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.
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Franck Ferrand
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- 1989-1991 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- radio personalitynovelistwriternon-fiction writerjournalist
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Franck Ferrand is a French writer and radio personality who specializes in history. He has a radio show about major figures of French history on Radio Classique, a French Radio station.
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Gilles Kepel
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
- Occupations
- professeur des universitéspolitical scientist
- Biography
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Gilles Kepel, is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He was Professor at Sciences Po Paris, the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program at PSL, based at Ecole Normale Supérieure. His latest English-translated book is, Away from Chaos. The Middle East and the Challenge to the West (Columbia University Press, 2020) was reviewed by The New York Times as "an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region”. His last essay, le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère, just released in French (February 2021), has topped the best-seller lists and is currently being translated into English and a half-dozen languages.
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Jean Tirole
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- university teacherresearchereconomist
- Biography
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Jean Tirole is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and psychology. In particular, he focuses on the regulation of economic activity in a way that does not hinder innovation while maintaining fair rules. Tirole's work is largely theoretical and explored in mathematical models, not empirical research.
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Alain Touraine
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- university teachersociologist
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Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
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Marcela Iacub
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1993 graduated with doctorate in France in private law
- Occupations
- writerpoet lawyerlawyer
- Biography
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Marcela Iacub is an Argentine writer and jurist specializing in bioethics research, living in France. In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by Dominique Strauss-Kahn: her novel Belle et Bête included a character based on him.
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Julia Cagé
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2014 graduated with doctorate in France in economics
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Julia Cagé is a French economist specializing in development economics, political economy, and economic history.
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- sociologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a French philosopher and sociologist.
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Frédéric Lordon
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- philosopherDirector of Research at CNRSeconomistsociologist
- Biography
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Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher, CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique. He has argued in favour of Communism as an alternative to Capitalism in books, articles and media appearances, and has been engaged in a project of re-grounding the social sciences in a Spinoza-inspired materialism. He is considered one of the most prominent intellectual voices of the radical left in France today.
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Frédéric Lenoir
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1999 graduated with doctorate in sociology of religion
- Occupations
- writersociologistlecturer
- Biography
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Frédéric Lenoir is a French sociologist, philosopher and writer
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Cheng Li-chun
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Cheng Li-chun is a Taiwanese politician who is the vice premier of Taiwan since 2024. Before her vice premiership, she served as the minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.
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Shlomo Sand
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianactivist
- Biography
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Shlomo Sand is an Austrian-born Israeli post-Zionist historian and socialist. He has served as an emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University since 2014. He is known for his book The Invention of the Jewish People, originally published in Hebrew as Matai ve’eich humtsa ha‘am hayehudi? (מתי ואיך הומצא העם היהודי? When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?) in 2008.
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Maylis de Kerangal
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- writereditor
- Biography
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Maylis de Kerangal is a French author. Her novels deeply explore people in their work lives. She has won many awards for her work (including the Prix Médicis, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Grand prix RTL-Lire, and the Wellcome Book Prize), and her novels have been published in several languages. Two have been adapted as films.
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Benjamin Stora
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1978 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs (1974 and 1984) and a Doctorate of the State (1991).
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Pierre Rosanvallon
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France in study of history
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionisthistorianeconomistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Pierre Rosanvallon is a French historian and sociologist. He was named a professor at the Collège de France in 2001, holding the chair in modern and contemporary political history.
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Philippe Descola
- Occupations
- anthropologistprofessorsenior lectureruniversity teacherethnologist
- Biography
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Philippe Descola, FBA is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory.
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Georges Didi-Huberman
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1981 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherart theoristphilosopherart historian
- Biography
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Georges Didi-Huberman FBA is a French philosopher and art historian.
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Stanislas Dehaene
- Occupations
- university teacherDirector of Research at CNRSneuroscientistpsychologist
- Biography
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Stanislas Dehaene is a French author and cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. As of 2017, he is a professor at the Collège de France and, since 1989, the director of INSERM Unit 562, "Cognitive Neuroimaging".
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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- writerprose writer
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese writer. Raised in Diourbel, Senegal and later studying in France, Sarr is the author of four novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to do so.
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Pierre Lévy
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1983 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- philosopheradjunct professorscreenwriterwritersociologist
- Biography
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Pierre Lévy is a Tunisian-born French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence.
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Aurélien Bellanger
- Occupations
- actorcyclistnovelistwriterchronicler
- Biography
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Aurélien Bellanger,, is a French writer and actor. He debuted in 2010 with a monograph about Michel Houellebecq and has since published novels on a regular basis. His second novel, L'Aménagement du territoire, received the 2014 Prix de Flore. Due to his occupation with technology and modern life, his novels have been compared to the works of Houellebecq and Honoré de Balzac. In La Croix, Sabine Audrerie notes "If we had to look for a link, we could retain the desire to be part of the Balzacie heritage." Less elogious, Jérôme Dupuis of L'Express described him as "a Houellebecq without humour, without sex, without aphorism, without melancholy".
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Ignacio Ramonet
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- sociologistgeopolitical analystsemiologistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Ignacio Ramonet Miguez is a Spanish academic, journalist, and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career. After becoming first known for writing on film and media, he became editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique, serving from 1991 until March 2008. Under his leadership, LMD established editorial independence in 1996 from Le Monde, with which it had been affiliated since 1954.
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Jacques Sapir
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- 1976-1980 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- research felloweconomist
- Biography
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Jacques Sapir is a French economist specialized in the economy of Russia, born in 1954 in Puteaux. He is the son of psychoanalyst Michel Sapir.
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Frédéric Martel
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2006 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
- Occupations
- political scientistsociologistessayistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Frédéric Martel is a French writer, researcher and journalist. His most famous books are The Pink and the Black, Homosexuals in France since 1968 (1996), Mainstream (2010) and In the Closet of the Vatican (2019), a New York Times bestseller.
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Gabriel Zucman
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2013 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistacademic
- Biography
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Gabriel Zucman is a French economist who is currently an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley‘s Goldman School of Public Policy, Chaired Professor at the Paris School of Economics, and Director of the EU Tax Observatory.
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Michael Löwy
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1964 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- sociologistresearch fellowuniversity teacherpoliticianphilosopher
- Biography
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Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, José Carlos Mariátegui, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994.
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Arié Alimi
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2002 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Arié Alimi, is a French lawyer and a member of the Human Rights League (LDH).
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Didier Fassin
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1988 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
- Occupations
- sociologistphysicianhumanitarianuniversity teacheranthropologist
- Biography
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Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is a Professor at the Collège de France on the chair “Moral Questions and Social Issues in Contemporary Societies” and the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was elected to the Academy of Europe in 2021 was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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Jean Hyppolite
- Occupations
- philosophertranslatorprofessorlinguist
- Biography
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Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of G.W.F. Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works include Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel (1946) and Études sur Marx et Hegel (1955) and the first translation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit into French in 1939.
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Susan George
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- political scientistacademicwritereconomistsociologist
- Biography
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Susan George is an American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She is the president of the Transnational Institute, a think-tank located in Amsterdam. She is a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (IBRD) and what she calls their 'maldevelopment model'. She similarly criticizes the structural reform policies of the Washington Consensus on Third World development. She is of U.S. birth but now resides in France, and has had dual citizenship since 1994.
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Dominique Bourg
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopherecologisthonorary professor
- Biography
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Dominique Bourg is a French philosopher. Since 2006, he is professor at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
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Monique Canto-Sperber
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- Occupations
- university teachertranslatorfounderphilosopher
- Biography
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Monique Canto-Sperber is a French philosopher. Her works, translated in several languages, are focused on ethics and contemporary political issues. A former director of the École normale supérieure from 2005 to 2012, she has been president of Paris Sciences et Lettres – Quartier latin, a French higher education and research institution, since 2012.
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Jacques Salomé
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jacques Salomé is a French psychologist and writer.
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Alain Gresh
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Alain Gresh is a French communist party leader and journalist.
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Enzo Traverso
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianhistorian of Modern Age
- Biography
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Enzo Traverso is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history. He is the author of several books on critical theory, the Holocaust, Marxism, memory, totalitarianism, revolution, and contemporary historiography. His books have been translated into numerous languages. After living and working in France for over 25 years, he is currently the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.
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Louis Dumont
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- anthropologistsociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Louis Charles Jean Dumont was a French anthropologist.
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Pierre Bergounioux
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- literary criticteacherdiaristwritersculptor
- Biography
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Pierre Bergounioux is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant. And in 2002, he won the SGDL literary grand prize for his body of work.
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Marwan Bishara
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2005 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Marwan Bishara is a Palestinian Arab author, columnist and senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English, born in Nazareth, Israel. From 2007 to 2014, Bishara was the editor and host of their flagship programme Empire, which examined global powers and their agendas in a fusion of documentary and debate with politicians, generals, philosophers, academics, novelists, movie directors, and activists from the world over. He has been described as "one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals" and writes extensively on global politics and is widely considered a leading authority on the Middle East and international affairs.
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Roger-Pol Droit
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2008 graduated with habilitation
- Occupations
- university teacherresearcherjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Roger-Pol Droit is a French academic and philosopher.
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Laure Murat
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- university teacherwriterhistorianjournalist
- Biography
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Laure Murat, born 4 June 1967, in Paris, is a French historian, writer, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Olivier Weber
- Occupations
- film directorjournalistdiplomatbiographerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Olivier Weber is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism, in particular for his stories on Afghanistan and for his books on wars. His novels, travels writing books and essays have been translated in a dozen of languages.
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Fariba Adelkhah
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- anthropologistresearchertranslator
- Biography
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Fariba Adelkhah is a French-Iranian anthropologist and academic at Sciences Po who was detained in Iran from 2019 until 2023.
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Geneviève Fraisse
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianwriterhistorianphilosopher
- Biography
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Geneviève Fraisse is a French feminist philosopher.
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Karol Beffa
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- classical composerpianistactor
- Biography
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Karol Beffa, born on 27 October 1973 in Paris, is a French and Swiss composer and pianist.
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Chahdortt Djavann
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- anthropologistwriter
- Biography
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Chahdortt Djavann is an Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and essayist. Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against Islam and Iranian religious leaders. She regularly appears on French television and radio.
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Sébastien Nadot
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2009 graduated with doctorate in history
- Occupations
- politicianphysical education teachersport historian
- Biography
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Sébastien Nadot, is a French historian, writer and politician. In the 2017 elections, he was elected as a member of La République En Marche! to the French National Assembly, representing the department of Haute-Garonne's 10th constituency. In December 2018, he was excluded from LREM for having voted against the 2019 draft budget. In May 2020, he was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly.
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Ariella Azoulay
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- art educator
- Biography
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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University and an independent curator of Archives and Exhibitions.
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Soti Triantafyllou
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- writerjournalisthistorian
- Biography
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Soti Triantafyllou or Triantafillou is a Greek writer, columnist, translator, and political/social commentator. She is based in Athens and Paris.
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Marc Lazar
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- sociologistuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Marc Lazar is a French academic who served as a professor of history and dean of the Doctoral School at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po). He was also the president of the LUISS school of government in Rome. He managed a research group on contemporary Italy with the International Research Center (Centre de recherches internationales, CERI). He is a specialist of the History of left-wing politics and parties, and of Italian politics. He graduated from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).
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Božidar Đelić
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Božidar Đelić is a Serbian economist and former politician. A longtime member of the Democratic Party, he was highly positioned in politics of Serbia after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević. He served as the Minister of Finance and Economy in the Government of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and later as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Minister of Science and Technological Development from 2007 to 2011.
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Charbel Nahas
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- engineereconomistuniversity teacherpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Charbel Nahas is a Lebanese politician, economist and engineer who is the General Secretary of Citizens in a State, a political party that was established in 2016 and that has as its goal to create "a civil, democratic, fair and capable state". He is widely considered to be a Lebanese progressive whose priority has been to improve living conditions for the country's disenfranchised poor.
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Delphine Minoui
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Delphine Minoui is a French journalist specializing in the Iranian world.
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Anselm Jappe
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- sociologistnon-fiction writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Anselm Jappe is a German professor of philosophy. Jappe currently resides in Italy. Jappe has authored several works in German, French, and Italian. Jappe has lectured at several institutions in within higher education.
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Jean-Christophe Attias
- Occupations
- philosopherdirector of studieshistorianHebraist
- Biography
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Jean-Christophe Attias is a French Jewish historian and scholar.
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François Héran
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France in anthropology
- Occupations
- demographeranthropologiststatisticiansociologist
- Biography
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François Héran is a French anthropologist and demographic sociologist.
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Luc Ferrandez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luc Ferrandez is a Canadian politician. He was the interim leader of the municipal party Projet Montreal from 2014. From 2009 to 2019 he served as the mayor of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. He is a member of the Projet Montréal municipal political party.
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Camille Froidevaux-Metterie
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1997 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- political scientistresearch fellowwomen's rights activistuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Camille Froidevaux-Metterie is a French philosopher, researcher and professor of political science. Her work focuses on the transformations of the female condition in the contemporary era, in a phenomenological perspective that places the question of the body at the center of the reflection. Her work also focuses on women's reappropriation of their bodies as expressed in recent feminist movements dealing with issues related to intimacy and female genitality (notably the Harvey Weinstein affair and the MeToo movement). In 2017, she was awarded the Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite. Her work has been developed in continuity of the feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Marion Young.
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Jean-Louis Cohen
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France in art history
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitectart historianarchitectural historian
- Biography
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Jean-Louis Cohen was a French architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and city planning. Since 1994 he had been the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
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Alain Marleix
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Alain Marleix is a French politician. He was the Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from June 2007 to March 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he is in charge of the redefinition of Boundary delimitation for the elections to the Assemblée Nationale.
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Yves Bréchet
- Occupations
- engineerphysicistresearcher
- Biography
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Yves Bréchet is a physicist, specialist of materials science, former High Commissioner for Atomic Energy of France, current Scientific Director of Saint Gobain, professor (part-time) at Monash University, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Blandine Rinkel
- Occupations
- musicianwriterdancerjournalist
- Biography
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Blandine Rinkel is a French journalist, musician and writer. She was nominated for the 2018 Prix Goncourt first novel. She won the 2022 Prix Méduse.
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Sia Anagnostopoulou
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1993 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Athanasia "Sia" Anagnostopoulou is a left-wing Greek politician and academic who was the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. From 18 July to 28 August 2015, she served as the Alternate Minister for European Affairs in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.
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Jade Y. Chen
- Occupations
- theatrical directorwriterplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Jade Y. Chen is a novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright from Taiwan. She is best known for her book, China, which won the Taiwan Golden Text Award (金典獎) for best novel and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Dream of the Red Chamber Award Jury Prize. Her 2004 bestselling novel Mazu's Bodyguards was adapted into a musical, presented at the National Theater in Taipei in December 2009. In Taiwan Today, it was described as a "bold attempt to explore Taiwan’s complex ethnic, cultural and political history".
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Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch is a French historian and Africanist. She is professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.
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Simonetta Greggio
- Occupations
- translatornovelistfood criticshort story writerjournalist
- Biography
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Simonetta Greggio is an Italian novelist who writes in French.
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Rémy Rioux
- Occupations
- official
- Biography
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Rémy Rioux is a French high-ranking civil servant. He serves as the chief executive of the French Development Agency.
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Valérie Petit
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Valérie Petit is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 elections until 2022, representing the 9th constituency of the department of Nord. From 2016 until 2020, she was a member of La République En Marche! (LREM).
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Gisèle Sapiro
- Occupations
- sociologistresearcher
- Biography
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Gisèle Sapiro is a French sociologist and historian whose specialty area is 19th and 20th century French literature. She is a laureate of the CNRS Silver Medal (2021) and the CNRS Bronze Medal (2000).
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Laurent Thévenot
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- sociologisteconomist
- Biography
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Laurent Thévenot is a French sociologist and Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
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Perrine Simon-Nahum
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teachercollection managerhistorian
- Biography
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Perrine Simon-Nahum is a contemporary French historian.
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Heinz Wismann
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- translatorhellenistuniversity teacherphilosophy historianclassical philologist
- Biography
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Heinz Wismann is a Franco-German philologist and philosopher.
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Annette Becker
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- high-school teacherhistoriandocentprofesseur des universités
- Biography
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Annette Becker is a French historian specializing in study of World War I. She is daughter of historian Jean-Jacques Becker.
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Françoise Thom
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherhistoriansenior lecturersovietologist
- Biography
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Françoise Thom is a French historian and Sovietologist, honorary lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. A specialist in post-communist Russia, she is the author of works of political analysis on the country and its leaders.
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Manuel Antonio Garretón
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- writersociologist
- Biography
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Manuel Antonio Garretón is a Chilean sociologist, political scientist and essayist. He received the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences in 2007 for his lifetime contribution to the field.
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Safi Faye
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriterfilm directorethnologistanthropologist
- Biography
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Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal.
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Maristella Svampa
- Occupations
- sociologistenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Maristella Noemi Svampa is an Argentine sociologist.
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Gabriel Rockhill
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- translatoruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Gabriel Rockhill is a Marxist philosopher, writer, and cultural critic. He is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, Director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique, and former Directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie.
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Benoît Pellistrandi
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1997 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Benoît Pellistrandi is a French historian and hispanist.
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Antonio Casilli
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2006 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Antonio A. Casilli is a Professor of Sociology at Télécom Paris, the school of telecommunications engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and an Associate Researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on computer-mediated communication, labour, and fundamental rights. He has been a regular commentator at La Grande Table and Place de la Toile on France Culture.
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António Francisco dos Santos
- Occupations
- Catholic priestphilosopherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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António Francisco dos Santos was a Roman Catholic bishop.
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Ana Lucia Araujo
- Occupations
- historianwriter
- Biography
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Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Her scholarship focuses on the transnational history, public memory, visual culture, and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.
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Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- 1995-2001 graduated with habilitation to Supervise Research
- Occupations
- pediatricianDirector of Research at CNRSresearcherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz is a French paediatrician. She is the Professor and Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at CNRS. Her research uses non-invasive brain imaging to understand children's cognitive function. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
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Jean-Louis Fabiani
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Jean-Louis Fabiani is a French sociologist, professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, and the director of studies at the Centre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
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Claude Fischler
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Claude Fischler is a French social scientist (sociology, anthropology). He is a directeur de recherche of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and heads the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (Interdisciplinary Institute for Contemporary Anthropology), a research unit of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris.
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Asma Mhalla
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Studied in 2022-2024
- Occupations
- political scientistresearch fellowessayistcolumnistconsultant
- Biography
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Asma Mhalla is a French-Tunisian political scientist. She is an associate researcher with the Laboratory of political anthropology, a joint project of the CNRS and the EHESS. She is a lecturer at Sciences Po and École Polytechnique.
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Maurice Olender
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in historical science
- Occupations
- archaeologisthistoriandocent
- Biography
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Maurice Olender was a Belgian-French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His teaching focused in particular on the genesis of the idea of race in the nineteenth century. He also published widely on the intellectual history of the concepts of Indo-European languages and Proto-language, most importantly in his monograph Les langues du Paradis. As editor, he headed the journal Le Genre humain and La librairie du XXIe siècle at Éditions du Seuil.
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Victor Leemans
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistsociologist
- Biography
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Victor Leemans was a Belgian sociologist, politician and prominent ideologist of the radical Flemish movement in the 1930s. A member of the militant organisation Verdinaso, he is seen by some as the main Flemish exponent of the historical phenomenon known as the Conservative Revolution.
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Cécile Debray
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- art historianexhibition curatorcurator
- Biography
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Cécile Debray is a French museum director, art historian and curator, specializing in modern and contemporary art in painting. She is general heritage curator, director of the Musée de l'Orangerie since 2017. She has been awarded the medal of Officier des Arts et des Lettres by France in 2018.
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André Gattolin
- Occupations
- politiciandocentecologist
- Biography
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André Gattolin is a French ecologist politician and Senator for Hauts-de-Seine from 2011 to 2023.
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John Tolan
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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John Victor Tolan is a historian of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin-speaking civilizations of the Middle Ages.
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Mahnaz Shirali
- Enrolled in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Dr. Mahnaz Shirali is an Iranian author and political sociologist. She graduated in architecture engineering from faculty of fine arts of Tehran University in 1992. She moved to France in 1994 where she obtained her PhD in sociology from School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris in 2000. Her PhD thesis was about crisis in youth Iranian generation.
