Chercheurs invités

Le CRIS est heureux d'accueillir chaque année universitaire un nombre limité de chercheurs invités juniors et seniors. Merci de prendre connaissance de la procédure pour candidater.

EN 2025 - 2026

Andrew Perrin, Professor, Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.  Les travaux d’Andrew J. Perrin portent sur la dimension culturelle et sociale de la démocratie, en particulier sur ce que les citoyennes et citoyens doivent savoir, faire et être pour faire vivre les institutions démocratiques. Ses recherches récentes interrogent le rôle des médias, de l’enseignement supérieur et des technologies de communication dans la transformation de la citoyenneté et de l’imagination démocratique. Référente au CRIS : Jen Schradie, pour un séjour du 16 février au 24 avril 2026. 

Eduardo Chavez Molina est un sociologue argentin, chercheur à l'Institut de recherches Gino Germani (Faculté de sciences sociales, Université de Buenos Aires) spécialiste des questions d'inégalités, classes sociales et mobilités sociales. Séjour d'un an au CRIS à partir de janvier 2026, dans le cadre du programme INCASI (International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities).

Honorata Dudek-Frysiak est une économiste, enseignante en management et marketing. Elle a piloté plusieurs projets associant universités, institutions publiques et acteurs économiques autour de questions d'innovation pédagogique, de coopération internationale et de silver économie.   Elle occupe aujourd’hui les fonctions de EIT Community Officer pour la Pologne, au sein de l'Institut Européen d'Innovation et de Technologie - Alimentation, dont l'objectif principal est de rendre les systèmes alimentaires plus fiables, durables et sains. Séjour au CRIS en novembre et décembre 2025. 

Michael Bastedo is the Marvin W. Peterson Collegiate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, His research centers on higher and postsecondary education policy. He directs research on college admissions, especially advancing equity for disadvantaged students through methods like the innovative Landscape tool, and has recently been elected to the National Academy of Education. 
Micheal Bastedo is visiting at the CRIS between September 1st and December 31th 2025. 

Sanyu Mojola is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and holds the Maurice P. During Chair in Demographic Studies. Her research probes how social, demographic, and health factors—such as HIV/AIDS and population transitions—shape adolescent and adult well-being, with comparative studies spanning the US and sub-Saharan Africa; she recently directed Princeton's Office of Population Research and collaborates internationally in demographic scholarship.
Sanuy Mojola will be joining the CRIS as part of the Sciences Po Visiting Fellowship program 2025-2026, during the fall semester of 2025. 

Susan Paulson is Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, researching the intersections of gender, politics, and environment in Latin America. Her work mobilizes decolonial feminism and political ecology; she is active in degrowth theory and leads public engagement forums with Andean and Amazonian communities, with her recent research on "World-making technology entangled with coloniality, racialization, and gender" published in 2024.
Susan Polson wil be joining our team for a research stay, from August 20th 2025 to February 20th 2026. 

Lucrecia Santibañez is Professor at UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies and Faculty Co-Director of UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools. Her expertise centers on improving teaching and learning for low-income and emergent bilingual students in the US and Latin America, with influential publications in education research and recent projects funded by leading foundations and public agencies.
Lucrecia is undertaking a visiting at the CRIS between September 1st 2025 and January 31th 2026.

EN 2024 - 2025

Joseph Cimpian, professseur d'économie et politiques éducatives, NYU Steinhardt (séjour en mai-juin 2025). Ses recherches portent sur la compréhension des schémas et des causes des inégalités sociales et éducatives, notamment parmi les minorités linguistiques, les femmes et les jeunes LGBTQ+. Ses recherches combinent analyse de données à grande échelle et méthodes expérimentales pour éclairer les politiques éducatives et élaborer des solutions politiques favorisant l'équité. Il est reconnu pour ses travaux pionniers sur les politiques de classification des apprenants en anglais, les inégalités entre les sexes dans les STEM et ses enquêtes auprès des jeunes marginalisés..  

Luca Pappalardo, Senior researcher in Computer Science at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies - ISTI-CNR, and member of the KDD Lab. He joins Sciences Po as part of the Visiting Faculty Program 2024-2025, organized by the Open Institute for Digital Transformations (TIERED Project). To learn more about his position and research during the first semester of 2025, read the interview with Luca Pappalardo here. 

Keonshi Son, Research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. Her research interests lie in the political economy of gender and the welfare state. Stay at CRIS between January and end of March 2025. During this time as Visiting Scholar, she collaborates with Professor Emanuel Ferragina,  investigating whether the ideal family structure, as perceived by states, changed from the traditional male breadwinner model to a dual-earner/carer model by analyzing changes in work-family policy constellations across advanced economies. 
In her current project, she examines the origins of women's economic and social rights in advanced capitalist societies, tracing the socio-economic and political factors that historically shaped state governance of women's labor from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.  

Giuseppe Montalbano, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Luxembourg, is specialized in the European financial markets' integration and corporate lobbying. 

His current research interests focus on EU financial and real estate market regulation, comparative housing policy and the role of business influence. Visiting between September 2024 and June 2025. This six-month visiting period at CRIS aims to develop a research on the determinants and limits of recent housing reforms in Europe in taming the financialization of housing from a comparative perspective. 

Ildefonso Marqués-Perales, Professor, Universidad de Sevilla. Visiting between October 1st and November 31th. Main research area: Social mobility, social class, social stratification. This visiting is part of the INCASI2 International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (Horizon - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions), bringing together organizations and universities from 13 countries in Europe and Latin America.

Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, Professor, University of Oslo. Visiting between September 24th and October 6th. Main research area: immigration, integration and ethnoracial inequalities. More information - Google scholar

Leda Perez, Associate Professor, Academic Department of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad Del Pacífico (Lima). As part of the Gender Studies Visiting Faculty Programme. Her studies focus on inequalities in labor and social rights, according to gender, ethnicity, race and social class.  
Project:  Women, democracy and domestic work in Latin America. Visiting for a semester, between September - December 2024. To find out more

EN 2023-2024

Christiaan Monden, Professor of Sociology and Demography, Departement of Sociology, University of Oxford. Visiting as part of the OxPo academic exchange 2024-2025. 4-29 March 2024.

Peter Hepburn, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University-Newark and Research Fellow at the Eviction Lab - Princeton University. His research examines how changes to three core social institutions — work, criminal justice, and housing — have served to produce and perpetuate inequality. It aims to demonstrate how disparities in exposure to precarious work, the criminal justice system, and housing instability are maintained through the mechanism of the family. Visiting since January 1st to June 1st 2024. Website

Rosa Weber, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Sociology at Stockholm University and INED. Project  Social Ties and Immigrant Integration: Bridging and Bonding Ties in France and Sweden. Visiting between 15th September 2023 and 15th December 2023. More information

Arthur Acolin, Associate Professor of Real Estate, Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, University of Washington. Visiting between 15th September 2023 and 14th June 2024. Current project: comparative analysis of immigrants'access to housing in European countries. He already worked on gentrification and discrimination in French real estate market. 

Andrei Cimpian, Professor of Psychology, New York University. CimpianLab Website
Period of Visiting: 1st October - 15th November 2023. His research investigates motivation and academic achievement, with a particular focus on how educational inequalities are shaped by gender and racial/ethnic stereotypes.

Joseph Cimpian, Professor of Economics and Education Policy, NYU Steinhardt and Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner. Webpage/bio
Visiting between 1st October and 15th November 2023. His core research area is dealing with the social, psychological, and institutional factors affecting equity and access, particularly concerning sex, gender identity, sexuality, and multilingualism. He is currently conducting an interdisciplinary research on gender gaps in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), policies to help non-native-English speakers succeed in school.

Hui Yu, Associate Professor, School of Education, South China Normal University.Visiting for one Year, starting November 2023, under the China Scholarship Council programme. He's now researching into parental educational involvement and private tutoring in urban China.

EN 2022-2023

Rob Gruijters, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. He is also affiliated with the Research for Equitable Access and Learning Center (REAL). Visiting, as part of the Cambridge - Sciences Po Exchange Visits Programme, in July 2023. 

Merlin Schaeffer, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology. He is a sociologist with a specialization in the conceptual and theory-driven empirical analysis of immigration-based ethnic diversity and stratification, as well as their contentious political consequences. Visiting in April 2023.

Olof Östergren, Researcher at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University. He's currently working on social inequalities during the pandemic, including health, health-care access and Swedish labour-market. He also leads a project carried with Stockholm University and the University of Helsinki examining health among Finnish migrants in Sweden, in relation to both the country of origin and destination. During his stay he plans to work on cross-country comparisons in social inequalities in old-age mortality together with Zachary Van Winkle. Visiting from March 2023 to July 2024.    

 Abdie Kazemipur, Professor of Sociology, Chair of Ethnic Studies, University of Calgary. His current project is dealing with the migration and integration of Muslims in Spain (where Muslims had lived and ruled over parts for almost eight centuries) and in Canada (a country geographically distant). Visiting from 1st March to 30 June, as part of the Sciences Po Visiting Faculty Global Program.

Carlos Costa Ribeiro, Professor of Sociology, IESP/UERJ (Brazil). His research is dealing with social stratification around various topics: social mobility, social inequalities, transition to adulthood, educational stratification, social classes, race relations, cycles of life. Visiting from 19th September, during 5 weeks.

En 2021-2022

Marion Lieutaud, Fellow in Computational Social Science, LSE Department of Methodology. Visiting, du 1er juin au 31 août 2022 pour un séjour de recherche dans le cadre du programme de mobilité post-doctorale CIVICA.

Thomas A. DiPrete, Giddings Professor of Sociology, Columbia University in the City of New-York and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). Séjour à l'OSC du 14 avril au 8 juin 2022. Il travaille dans un mode comparatif sur les inégalités genrées lors de l'éducation puis des revenus du travail.

Mats Lillehagen, post-doctorant, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Visiting entre mars et décembre 2022. Il travaille avec Olivier Godechot sur les inégalités dans l'accès au marché du travail et aux postes à responsabilité, en raison de l'origine géographique ou ethnique.   

Léa Pessin, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University and affiliated with the Population Research Institute. Elle travaille à l'OSC du 1er février au 31 mars 2022 avec Zachary Van Winkle sur les conséquences croisées des situations familiales et professionnelles sur les parcours de vie.

Anna Carolina Venturini, post-doctorante au Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), en visite à l'OSC du 1er février au 15 mars 2022. Elle collabore avec Marco Oberti dans une perspective comparatiste sur la question des politiques d'affirmative action dans l'enseignement supérieur, notamment les contrats d'éducation prioritaires à Sciences Po.

Mauricio Ernica, professeur à l'Université de Campinas (Unicamp - São Paulo). Il mène un projet de recherche en collaboration avec Agnès van Zanten sur les inégalités scolaires et leur relation avec les inégalités sociales au Brésil. Séjour du 1er février au 31 juillet 2022.

En 2019-2020

Thomas A. DiPrete, Giddings Professor of Sociology, Columbia University in the City of New-York and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy. Séjour à l'OSC du 2 janvier au 15 juin 2020. Il travaille sur les inégalités sociales, notamment genrées, en lien avec le système éducatif et le marché du travail.

 Restricted activities due to the pandemic.

En 2018-2019

Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University Arts & Science. Séjour à l'invitation du Département de sociologie de Sciences Po du 21 mai au 29 juin 2019. Elle s'intéresse à la formation et la réception des identités raciales et ethnoraciales ; elle interroge dans plusieurs articles et ouvrages le concept de race.

Marco Romito, chercheur postdoctoral au Département de sociologie de l'Université de Milan-Bicocca. Il étudie les inégalités éducatives au travers des parcours scolaires, en Italie. Il est accueilli à l'OSC pour un séjour de 3 mois, de mi-janvier à mi-avril 2019. Il travaille, avec l'aide d'Agnès van Zanten, sur l'orientation vers l'enseignement supérieur.

Chris Deeming, Chancellor's Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Strathclyde University (Glasgow). Séjour de octobre à novembre 2018, sur invitation du Département de sociologie. C'est un spécialiste de sociologie politique (politiques sociales, Welfare State, types de régimes, approches économiques et redistribution).

Adalberto Cardoso, membre de l'Institut d'études sociales et politiques (IESP) de l'Université de Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), chercheur associé à l'OSC. Invité, durant un congé sabbatique, de septembre 2018 à juillet 2019. Il travaille avec des chercheurs de l'OSC sur le programme Capes Cofecub les classes moyennes dans la ville : comparaison Paris - Rio de Janeiro. Domaines de recherche : sociologie du travail, sociologie urbaine (ségrégation, violence, éducation...).