Nonna Mayer is a CNRS Research Director Emerita at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics of Sciences Po. She chaired the French Political Science Association (Association française de science politique) from 2005 to 2016. She edits the series "Contester" at the Presses de Sciences Po, focused on changes in modes of collective action. She co-organises the methodological research seminar « Les sciences sociales en question. Grandes controverses en sciences sociales » (with Samy Cohen, Florence Faucher, Laurence Louër) since 2011. She is member of the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH) since 2016.

Research Topics

Political participation,  Electoral sociology, Populist Radical Rights, Racism and antisemitism

• Her recent research puts support for the French RN in a European perspective (Nonna Mayer, “The radical right in France”, in Jens Rydgren (dir.), The 0xford Handbook of the Radical Right, Oxford University Press, 2018, p.433-451), with three mains lines of comparison, the  Radical Right Gender Gap ( “L’impact du genre sur le vote Marine Le Pen”, Revue française de science politique,  67(6), 2017 :1087-2017, with Abdelkarim Amengay et Anja Durovic), the demobilizing impact of social precariousness  (Nonna Mayer, "The Political Impact of Social Insecurity in France", Partecipazione e conflitto, 11(3) 2018: 646-691) and the way  robotization and artifiicial intelligence are now threatening white collar jobs (Zhen J. Im, Nonna Mayer, Bruno Palier, Jan Rovny,  The losers of automation, a reservoir of votes for the radical right », Research and Politics, 2019 , forthcoming)

Main Ongoing Projects

• Racism Barometer of the  CNCDH/National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (2000—>) : preparation of the annual survey and editing of the report analysing its  results (Nonna Mayer, Guy Michelat, Vincent Tiberj, Tommaso Vitale, « Évolution et structures des préjugés : le regard des chercheurs », in CNCDH,  Rapport sur la lutte contre le racisme, l’antisémitisme et la xénophobie. Année 2018, Paris, La Documentation française,  2019)

• "Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe today. Is there a connection  (2016-2017 ): comparative project (Germany, Belgium, France, UK, Netherlands) coordinated by David Feldman (Pears Institute/Birkbeck University of London) and the Foundation EVZ (Erinnerung Verantworung Zukunft),exploring racist and antisemitic prejudice  and acceptation of the Other in a context  of increasing flows of refugees and migrants (French report by Elodie Druez and Nonna Mayer, 2018)

• « Inequality and democracy » (2014—>) : international collaborative network SSK (Social Science Korea) funded by the Korean  National Research Foundation (convention NRF-2017S1A3A2066657) bringing together academics from Europe and South Korea studying social inequalities  and their electoral and political impact

• Insecurity, Participation, Politics /PPP (2015-2017): research partnership  with the charity « les Petits frères des pauvres » taking the form of a  PICRI (Partnership Institutions-Citizens for Research and Innovation) funded by the Regional council Ile-de-France, exploring  ways of access to autonomy and  citizenship of the taken in charge, with Céline Braconnier and Florence Haegel) (présentation at the GNDA of Toulouse, september 2016)