Mattéo Lanoë

Mattéo Lanoë is a Sociology PhD candidate at CRIS (Sciences Po) and INED, and an associated doctoral researcher in the ERC Synergy project Gender and Health Inequalities (Gendhi). Trained in sociology at Sciences Po, he is writing a dissertation in the sociology of health and illness, funded by a Sciences Po Doctoral Scholarship (2025–2028) and supervised by Anne Revillard (Sciences Po, CRIS and LIEPP) and Émilie Counil (INED).

His research examines how embodied dispositions are mobilized to “manage” an illness, and how the experience of illness, in turn, shapes a secondary socialization that modulates primary socialization. His dissertation applies this framework to post-infectious syndromes.
 

Dissertation abstract: Post-infectious syndromes, of which Long Covid is the best-known example, cause persistent and disabling symptoms that disrupt social trajectories. The dissertation draws on the sociology of dispositions, socialization, and illness to examine the extent to which symptom management and the course of the illness are shaped, even governed, by the unequal possession and mobilization of cultural, economic, and social capital. It relies on a mixed-methods design combining repeated interviews and a longitudinal quantitative survey.

INCORP-19 : INfections, CORps et Parcours des personnes souffrant d'un Covid long. Funding : GIS GESTES, Sciences Po. PIs : Mattéo Lanoë et Émilie Counil. Members of the project: Enzo Bessega (University of Chicago), Anne Revillard, Dominique Salmon (Institut Fournier, AP-HP), Émilie Seyrat (Association ESPOIRS), et Anne Pastorello (Inserm, Université Paris Cité).

When the Virus Strains: Life Courses, Dispositions, and Illness Trajectories in Post-Infectious Syndromes (working title)

Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences (48), 1A, Sciences Po Undergraduate College, Poitiers Campus, 2025. 

• 2026, Seed Grant from the GIS GESTES (Groupe d’études sur le travail et la santé au travail).
• 2024, Master’s Prize (joint winner), Student Life Observatory (Observatoire de la vie étudiante, OVE), 33rd edition.

• 2025 (with François Hublet), “A Tale of Three Cleavages: Quantifying the Role of Social Demarcations in the 2022 French Presidential Election”, Revue française de science politique, vol. 2025/2, n° 75, p. 215-260. 
• 2023 (with François Hublet and Johanna Schleyer), “Spelling out the European center-right’s dilemma: Renewal of the Grand coalition or National-Conservative Alliance?”, Groupe d’études géopolitiques, June. 

PRESENTATIONS

• 2026 (with Anne Pastorello), “Pathways to Symptom Declaration and Self-Diagnosis of Long Covid: A Multi-Method Study”, 4th International Conference on Long Covid (poster), Nice, November.
• 2026, "The Taming Disease: How Long Covid Crushes Previous Socializations", American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Sociology of Body and Embodiment Section (Health Roundtables), New York City, August.
• 2026, « Words for Ills. Comment pathologise-t-on un symptôme ? » [“Words for Ills. How Is a Symptom Pathologized?”], Ined Doctoral Day, Aubervilliers, May.
• 2025, “Class, Capital, and Chronic Illness: A Dispositionalist Approach to Long Covid Management”, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Student Forum, Chicago, August.