Claire Lemercier

BIO

Claire Lemercier became a CNRS research fellow at the l’Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (Institute for Early Modern and Modern History) in 2003, then joined the CSO in 2010.

Her research focuses on institutions that incorporate both public and private elements and which participate in regulating the economy. Her work aims to define a French model of regulation based on the unique relationship between public and private sectors.

After conducting an extensive study of commercial courts and labour relations boards, her latest projects delve into 19^th century patterns of statecraft in the United States and France (with Nicolas Barreyre); the history of apprenticeship in 18^th- and 19^th-century France (with Clare Crowston and Steve Kaplan); governance changes in the largest French firms and their approaches to recruiting top managers, from the 1830s to today (with Pierre François); and notarial and other practices of formalisation in 18^th-century Europe (with Francesca Trivellato).

A specialist in quantitative methods in the field of history—especially network analysis—Claire Lemercier has taught and published a great deal on these topics, often in collaboration with Claire Zalc. In 2019, they published Quantitative Methods in the Humanities: An Introduction (University of Virginia Press) and created a companion blog.

publications

• Nicolas Barreyre et Claire Lemercier, "The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)", American Historical Review, 126 (2), 2021, p.481-503, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03413248v1
• Pierre François et Claire Lemercier, Sociologie historique du capitalisme, Paris, La Découverte, 2021, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03222371v1 ou plutôt https://www.cairn.info/sociologie-historique-du-capitalisme--9782707177841.htm0
• Julie Gervais, Claire Lemercier et Willy Pelletier, La Valeur du service public, Paris, La Découverte, 2021, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03417163v1 ou plutôt https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/la_valeur_du_service_public-9782348068553
• Claire Lemercier, "Transferts et cultures juridiques. Pourquoi l’Angleterre victorienne n’a-t-elle pas adopté les tribunaux de commerce ?", Droit et Société, n° 105, 2020, p. 309-324, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03045984v1
• Claire Lemercier et Claire Zalc, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities. An Introduction, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2019, [n'est pas dans HAL car ça ne sert à rien !], https://quanthum.hypotheses.org/

All publications

TEACHING ACTIVITIES 

Sciences Po

• Introduction to Quantitative Methods (graduate programme in Sociology)

EHESS

• Quantitative Methods for History workshop (FR) (open to students of all levels)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Co-coordinator of the Center for History and Economics in Paris (CHEP) (with David Todd)
• Member of Enterprise & Society’s editorial board
• Member of the French Committee for Open Science (CoSO)

Awards

2008
CNRS Bronze medal

EDUCATION 

2012
Habilitation (professorial thesis), University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis

2001
Ph.D. in History, EHESS

1998
Master’s degree

1997
Agrégation (teaching certification) in History

1996
Bachelor’s degree in History, Sciences Po - Paris