Jade Payan holds a master's degree in Economics and Sociology (jointly supervised by EHESS, Dauphine-PSL, and Mines) and is pursuing a PhD at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO) with funding from the École normale supérieure (ENS) Rennes. She is working on hunting policies in France, under the joint supervision of Manisha Anantharaman and Marie Piganiol (IRISSO, Dauphine-PSL). Specifically, she is studying how hunters have managed to institutionalize their role as wildlife regulators and what changes in their practices this new public service mission entails. She draws on approaches from environmental sociology and the sociology of public action

COMMUNICATIONS :

“Les promesses de la vertu écologique. Socio-histoire de la financiarisation des forêts en France (1963-2025)” with Pierre Alayrac (CRESPPA) and Marie Piganiol (IRISSO), AFS, July 8, 2025

EDUCATION :

Since September 2025:
PhD student at CSO, Sciences Po/École normale supérieure (ENS) Rennes

2023           
Master's degree in Economics and Social Sciences, Dauphine-PSL University, EHESS, Mines Paris-PSL.
Master's degree in interdisciplinary research – Thesis: An artificial quest? Quantifying  soil using the ZAN benchmark (awarded the Veblen Prize).

2022 
Master's 1 in Public Policy – Earth Law track, École Normale Supérieure de Rennes
Master's in Environmental Social Sciences Research – Thesis: Integrating socio-economic impacts into the legal framework of Low Emission Mobility Zones (ZFE-m) 

2022
Master's 1 in Public Economics, University of Rennes - IMEPP, Engineering Management and Evaluation  of Public Policies

2021
DU Master's in Law and Economic Globalization, École Normale Supérieure de Rennes

2021
Bachelor's in Law 

Hunting policies. The governance of biodiversity by hunters and its contemporary transformations