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Each year, the School of Research hosts about 300 PhD candidates, a third of which are international students, and 70 doctoral dissertations are defended.

As young researchers, PhD students are integrated into the various research units and participate in their activities, including seminars and research projects.

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Michaël Bourdon

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Entrepreneurship, start-ups, the State, elites, modernity, digital transition

Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Science, technology and power

Discipline(s): Anthropology, Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): West Africa

Country(ies): Ghana, Togo

Language(s): French, English

Thesis topic:

Un nouvel entrepreneuriat du développement ? Les start-ups, l'Etat et la recomposition du capitalisme en Afrique de l'Ouest, supervised by Richard Banégas

Aurélien Boyer

Entity(ies): The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)

Discipline(s): Economics

Justine Brisson

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): History of Political Ideas, Theory of Commitment and Anti-Commitment, Literary posture and auctorial scenography, Politics of Literature

Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Philosophy

Geographical Area(s): Western Europe

Country(ies): France

Language(s): French, English, Spanish

Thesis topic:

Une histoire intellectuelle du contre-engagement. Figures et postures de l'écrivain en retrait du politique (1950-1980), supervised by Astrid von Busekist (Sciences Po) & Marc Crépon (ENS)

Anouk BRUANT

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Abortion, Health, Work

Research Group(s): Work, Employment and Professions, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Organising abortion care in France. 

Julien Brugger

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Economic sociology, Science and technology studies, Sociology of digital technology

Research Group(s): Governance and Economic Organisations, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

The social construction of commercial uses of artificial intelligence

Elias Brugidou

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Security and War, Expertise, The West(s), Narrations and Visualities

Research Group(s): Security, defence, nuclear weapons, Violence, war and peace, Science, technology and power, Art, humanities, and international research

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): North America, Western Europe

Language(s): French, English, Spanish

Thesis topic:

Une guerre sensible ? Cadrer, connaître et combattre la « menace informationnelle » en Amérique du Nord et en Europe, supervised by Frédéric Ramel

Piergiorgio Bruno

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Politics and advertising, Political communication

Discipline(s): History

Hélène Buscail

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Sociology of law and justice, Sociology of gender and sexuality

Research Group(s): Law, Norms and Regulation

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Trajectories of victims of sexual violence in police and judicial institutions

Nathaniel Butler-Blondel

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays in Macro-Finance and Financial Regulation

Supervisor(s) : Guillaume Plantin

Sofia Cabarcas Macia

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law

Thesis topic:

Tracing repetition in truth-telling: the right to justice in the Global South’s political transitions during the 21st century.

Laudine Carbuccia

Entity(ies): Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)

Research Interest(s): Education, Early childhood care, Childcare centers, Inequalities in childcare arrangements, Public policies for early childhood

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

The cognitive and structural determinants of the early childcare enrolment gap according to socioeconomic background  (provisional title)
 

Alice Carchereux

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Environmental risks and planetary limits

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): Central Africa

Country(ies): Gabon

Thesis topic:

L'Etat en restes : gouverner par et sur l'ordure au Gabon, supervised by Béatrice Hibou and Didier Péclard

Hugo Carlier

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Imperial and colonial history, History of colonial states, Monetary history, 19th and 20th Centuries

Discipline(s): History

Thesis topic:

« Des souverainetés monétaires coloniales. Théories et usages de la monnaie dans l’empire colonial français (1851-1945) » Directeur de thèse : Alain Chatriot

Louison Carroué

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Sociology of Science and Technology, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Organizations

Research Group(s): Governance and Economic Organisations, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Vendre "de l'IA" : le rôle des intermédiaires marchands dans la structuration du marché de l'intelligence artificielle

Jens Carstens

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): Political Economy, comparative politics, political discontent, trust in institutions, European integration, spatial inequality

Thesis topic:

Left-Behinds and Distrust – The legacy of Austerity policies in the European Union? under the co-direction of Jan Rovny and Emiliano Grossman

Lino Castex

Entity(ies): Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF)

Research Interest(s): Histoire conceptuelle, discours contemporains, sécularisation, fins politiques

Discipline(s): Political Science

Philippine Cedrone

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Sociology of economists, Economic sociology, Sociology of science and technology, Sociology of public action

Research Group(s): Governance and Economic Organisations, Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Economic knowledge and actors in the construction of climate action financing circuits
 

Silvia Cesa-Bianchi

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Thesis topic:

Regulating Tourism as an Environmental Issue for EU Policymaking and Governance

Perrine Chabanel

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Biopolitics, intimacy, governance

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Theory

Language(s): English, German, Spanish, French Sign Language

Thesis topic:

Faire naître : une phénoménologie de la naissance, supervised by Astrid von Busekist

Alexandre Chabert

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): History of the French and Italian Left in the XXth and XXIst Centuries, Political History of Italy in the XXth and XXIst Centuries

Discipline(s): History

Audrey Chamboredon

Entity(ies): Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)

Research Interest(s): Education, Residential choices, Urban segregation, Educational inequalities

Discipline(s): Sociology

Subdiscipline(s): Education and Training Sciences

Thesis topic:

Choix résidentiels et inégalités éducatives. Une comparaison de plusieurs métropoles françaises
 

Elodie Charié

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Medical, social and cultural history of colonial and military psychiatry, History of First Indochina War, History of French Empire, History of colonization and decolonization

Discipline(s): History

Thomas Charrayre

Entity(ies): Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF)

Discipline(s): Political Science

Philippe Chassé

Entity(ies): Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF)

Discipline(s): Political Science

Sofyaine Chbari

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Political parties, popular classes

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe

Country(ies): Argentina, France

Thesis topic:

Mettre le peuple en (parti) mouvement ? Sociologie politique comparée de l’incorporation des secteurs populaires dans les partis-mouvements en France et en Argentine, supervised by Hélène Combes

Swann Chelly

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Shock Propagation in Production Networks: What Recent Crises Have Taught Us

Supervisor(s) : Isabelle Mejean

Maxime Christophe

Entity(ies): Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)

Research Interest(s): Migrations, Right of asylym, Administrative procedures and migration policies, Ethnographic pathways

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Seeking Asylum in France: An Ethnographic Study of the Times and Spaces of Waiting
 

Naomi Cohen

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Research Interest(s): Macroeconomics; Finance

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Understanding Macroeconomic Imbalances and Spillover Effects in the Euro Area Using a Two Country HANK Model

Supervisor(s) : Xavier Ragot and Nicolas Cœurdacier, with thesis committee members Junnan He

Antonia Collard-Nora

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Violence, war and peace

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Turkey

Language(s): French, English, German, Russian, Arabic

Thesis topic:

La gouvernance humanitaire en Turquie et dans le nord-ouest de la Syrie (2014-2025), supervised by Bayram Balci & Delphine Allès

Adam Contu

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): International environmental governance, Global environmental commons, Seabed

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Environmental risks and planetary limits, Global economy, capitalism, extraction

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): Global realm , Seas and Oceans

Language(s): French, English

Thesis topic:

Gouverner les communs globaux environnementaux : les fonds marins, un "patrimoine" ou "commun" de l'humanité ?, supervised by Carola Kloeck & Mélanie Albaret

Jean Corbi

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Modern Chinese History

Discipline(s): History

Charlotte Corchete

Entity(ies): Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)

Research Interest(s): Skills acquisition, Curriculum vitae, Educational levels, Degrees, Skills assessment

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Perceptions des recruteurs et des enseignants sur l'évaluation des candidats et des élèves : la place des compétences (Titre provisoire)
 

María-Katrina Cortez

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): French Right, Democracy Crisis, Radical-right populist parties, Discourse on religion and immigration, Christianity, Comparative Politics, Politics of Resentment, Monarchy, Youth Politics, Identitarian Catholicism, Urban-Rural Divide, Political Geography, Qualitative Methods, Ethnography, Cultural backlash theory, Social identity theory

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Thesis topic:

The Politics of Resentment and Distrust : the Changing Political Attitudes of Radicalized Youth in France, supervised by Emiliano Grossman et de Juliette Galonnier

Charles Corval

Entity(ies): Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF)

Research Interest(s): Ethics and the governability of new technologies

Discipline(s): Political Science

Jules Cosqueric

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law

Thesis topic:

From machine to chaos? A genealogy of normative discourse on genocide.

Leïla Costil

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays on the Impact of Structural Changes in Learning Systems

Supervisor : Clément de Chaisemartin

Benjamin Coudurier

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law

Maximin Cousy Barbereau

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Art History, History of the Third Republic

Discipline(s): History

Quentin Couvreur

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): China, Foreign Policy, Multilateralism, International Organizations

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): Global realm

Country(ies): China

Thesis topic:

Être « grand » tout en étant un pays en développement : la diplomatie onusienne de la Chine depuis 2012, supervised by Frédéric Ramel

Thalia Creac'h

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): Gentrification Conflcts of use Autochthony Authenticity Security issues France-UK comparison

Thesis topic:

Conflicts of use, definition of identity and appropriation of space in areas in mutation: a comparison between Marseille and Liverpool, co-directed by Bruno Cousin and Fabio Quassoli.

Hugo d'Assenza-David

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Policy, Governance, Risk, Planning, State, Engineering Sciences, Cities and Territories, Anthropocene

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Environmental risks and planetary limits, Science, technology and power

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Public Policy

Geographical Area(s): Western Europe

Country(ies): France, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Language(s): French, English, Spanish

Thesis topic:

Quand la matière compte : la construction du risque métabolique et la gouvernance des planifications territoriales dans les régions de Paris et Amsterdam, supervised by Eric Verdeil & Olivier Borraz

Ombline Damy

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Comparative Literature, Literature and History, Testimonial Literature Child Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, 20th-21st century

Research Group(s): Humanities. Lives, Materialities, Representations

Discipline(s): History

Thesis topic:

"Comprendre autrement" : Le point de vue de l'enfant face aux violences de l'Histoire chez Calvino, Wolf, Lenz, Appelfeld, Lee et Morrison.

Aldo de Cesare

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law

Thesis topic:

Reimagining monetary policy: towards a new legal framework to address regional imbalances.

Marta de la Torre Carreira

Entity(ies): Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)

Research Interest(s): Education, Homoparental family

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

L’engagement parental au sein des familles nombreuses : quels effets de l’expérience de la parentalité auprès des aînés sur la scolarité des derniers de fratrie ?
 

Jessica De Rongé

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): Trust Citizen participation Mini-public Democracy Political efficacy

Thesis topic:

"Citizen’s trust in mini-public", supervised by Brenda Van Coppenolle and Jan Rovny

Manon Deguet

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Rights of nature, Ecology, Peru, Bolivia

Research Group(s): Environmental risks and planetary limits, State, political regimes, mobilisations

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): Latin America and the Caribbean

Country(ies): Bolivia, Peru

Language(s): French, Spanish, English

Thesis topic:

La construction politique des droits de la nature : l’expérience péruviano-bolivienne autour du lac Titicaca, supervised by Sandrine Revet & Franck Poupeau

Gauthier Deloziere

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law

Camille Denicourt-Fauvel

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Political violence, Democracy and democratization, Human Rights, Rule of Law, Political participation and mobilization

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): Latin America and the Caribbean

Country(ies): Brazil, Chile

Thesis topic:

Au nom de la démocratie: entre impunité transitionnelle et extrême violence actuelle. Analyse à la lumière des cas du Chili et du Brésil post-transition, supervised by Olivier Dabène et Marie-Christine Doran

Agathe Denis

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays in Political Economics

Supervisor(s) : Julia Cagé

Camille Descateaux

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Access to rights: experiences and practices: the reception of administrative assistance services within a Parisian district