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Émilie Biland-Curinier
Professor, HDR
Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)
Member of the Research and Teaching Program on Gender Knowledge (PRESAGE) - Research associate at the Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality Unit of the National Institute for Demographic Studies (Ined)
Research Interest(s): Families, Public Action, Law and Justice, Inequalities, Discrimination and Domination
Discipline(s): Sociology
Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State; Law, Norms and Regulation; Work, Employment and Professions
Biography
Sociologist and political scientist Émilie Biland-Curinier analyzes the contribution of organizations and professional groups to the unequal dynamics that are reshaping contemporary societies. At the intersection of the sociology of public action and the sociology of law and justice, she is interested in the mechanisms that frame individuals in their family life (marital separations, filiation) and in their professional life (administrative competitions, pandemic law). She highlights their importance in the differentiation and hierarchization of social status according to class, gender, sexuality, and origin. In recent years, she has mainly worked on the parental rights of LGBT+ people, as well as on experiences of the law during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Based on research experiences in several countries (Canada, Chile, the United States, France) and within numerous teams, her analyses also focus on research practices in the social sciences, international comparisons, survey techniques, scientific engagement, and the relationship between individual and collective work.
Read the interview she gave upon her arrival at the CSO in 2019, as well as the one she gave as part of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia in 2023.
Read her interview on her arrival at the CSO
EDUCATION
2017
Accreditation to supervise research in sociology, University of Strasbourg
2008
Doctorate in sociology, EHESS
2004
Master's degree in social sciences, ENS/EHESS
2002
External agrégation in economics and social sciences
2001
Master's degree in sociology, Paris-Descartes University
2000-2001
Year of study at City University of New York
1999-2004
Student at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris
Projects
2022-2025
“Expériences pandémiques du droit et de la justice : famille, travail et espace public en urgence sanitaire” Institute for Studies and Research on Law and Justice, with J. Pélisse
2019-2024
"Des parents dans leurs droits ? Minorités sexuelles et séparations conjugales d’un continent à l’autre" Institut Universitaire de France
2021-2022
“ Injustices, conflictualité et expériences du droit en urgence sanitaire” Agence Nationale de la Recherche
2020-2022
“Intermédiaires du droit et parents LGBTQ+” Quebec Ministry of Justice
Thesis Supervision
Zéo Richez, PhD in Sociology, started in 2024 at Sciences Po: Caring for transgender minors in France: Building a field and medical practice under pressure.
Hélène Buscail, PhD in Sociology, started in 2023 at Sciences Po (co-supervised by P. Delage): Trajectories of victims of sexual violence in police and judicial institutions
Néo Gaudy, PhD in Sociology, started in 2023 at Sciences Po (co-supervised by A. Jaunait): Preventing violence while promoting sexual health? A sociology of LGBTQI and TDS community health mobilizations since 2010
Teaching
2024-2026
Class, gender, race: inequalities and intersections, Master's 1, common academic training
2024-2026
Power relations in research, Master's 1 in sociology
2021-2026
Gender and sexuality, Master's 1 in sociology
2021-2026
Discrimination and Inequality, exploratory seminar, 1st year university college, Paris
2021-2026
Gender and Sexuality in the Workplace, Master's 2, School of Public Affairs
2020-2022
Sociology of the Family, Master's 2 in Sociology
2019-2020
Social Relations and Public Administration, seminar, university college, 2nd year, Paris
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2019-2024
Junior member of the Institut universitaire de France
2014-2023
Associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Laval University
2014-2019
Lecturer in Political Science, Department of AES, at the University of Rennes 2. Researcher at the ARENES Laboratory (UMR CNRS 6051)
2010-2014
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, at Laval University (Quebec, Canada)
VISITING PROFESSOR POSITIONS
2026 Quebec National Institute for Scientific Research
2025 Stockholm Center for Organizational Research (Sweden)
2025 UC Louvain (Belgium)
2024 Uppsala University (Sweden)
2019 and 2022 Catholic University of Chile
2014 Paris-Dauphine University
2009 University of Tampere (Finland)
Editorial Activity
Since 2025
Co-editor-in-chief of the journal Gouvernement et action publique (Presses de Sciences Po) and member of its editorial board since 2011
RECENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Since 2026
External member of the Ined Ethics Committee
Since 2020
Co-head of the CSO's “Law, Standards, and Regulations” division
2021-2024
Elected member of Section 40 of the National Scientific Research Committee
2021-2024
CSO Equality Correspondent, with S. Brunier
2020-2024
Elected member of the CSO Laboratory Council
publications
BOOKS :
- Parents en quête de droits. Minorités de sexualité et de genre d’un continent à l’autre, Presses de Sciences Po, 2026
- Family Law in Action. Divorce and Inequality in Quebec and France, UBC Press, 2023. Lauréat du prix 2024 de l’Association Canadienne Droit & Société / W. Wes Pue Book Prize
- Gouverner la vie privée. L’encadrement inégalitaire des séparations conjugales en France et au Québec, ENS-Editions, 2019.
- La fonction publique territoriale, La découverte, coll. « Repères », 2019 [première édition 2012].
- Au tribunal des couples. Enquête sur des affaires familiales (au sein du Collectif Onze), Odile Jacob, 2013