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PhD candidates

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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Simon Gurtner

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

Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Theory

Geographical Area(s): Global realm

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

Thesis topic:

Quand la démocratie inquiète : enquête sur le désir d’ordre à l’âge de l’incertitude. Subjectivations réactionnaires et mise en crise de la vérité dans les régimes démocratiques, supervised by Astrid von Busekist

Louise Guttin-Vindot

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Coming out of war, War victims, Psychological injuries, War reparations

Discipline(s): History

Dániel Gyetvai

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Assessing the Optimality of the French Unemployment Insurance Scheme

Supervisor(s) : Pierre Cahuc

Thesis committee: Florian Oswald, Moshe Buchinsky

Elias Habib

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

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

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

La construction de territoires universitaires

Vincent Harmsen

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Environmental history, History of water, Contemporary history of Netherlands, History of technology, Global history, history of international of expertise

Discipline(s): History

Marie Inès Harté

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

Research Interest(s): Transitional and restorative justice Truth and memory Memory policies Victims and victims' rights Victims mobilisation Reconciliation process

Thesis topic:

"Who are the victims of the Colombian armed conflict? An analysis from the frames of the actors in the production of the narrative in the Colombian Truth Commission final report", under the supervision of Sandrine Lefranc and Patricia Herrera Kit

Louis Hill

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law

Yuyang Hong

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

Research Interest(s): China's Foreign Policy, Sino-Taiwanese Relations, Diaspora Diplomacy, Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): East Asia

Country(ies): China, Taiwan

Language(s): Chinese, English, French, Southern Min (Taiwanese Hokkien)

Thesis topic:

Les rouages invisibles du rouleau compresseur chinois : les rôles des « bureaucrates au niveau de la rue » chinois dans la formulation et l'exécution de la politique chinoise envers Taiwan/The hidden cogs of China's powerhouse: how Chinese street-level bureaucrats in local Taiwan Affairs Office influence and execute China's policy on Taiwan, supervised by Frnaçoise Mengin & Jérôme Doyon

Yasmine Houri

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

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Dynamiques d’élaboration collective de l’information (in)appropriée sur les réseaux sociaux

Théodore Humann

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays on Central Banking, Sovereign Debt, and Public Finance

Supervisor(s) : Stéphane Guibaud

Aizaz Hussain

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

Research Interest(s): Geoeconomics, Geopolitics, Terrorism, Nationalism, Hybrid Regimes, Populism, and Non-violence.

Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, Art, humanities, and international research

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): Global realm , South Asia

Country(ies): China, India, Pakistan, United States of America

Language(s): English, Urdu, Sindhi, Panjabi

Thesis topic:

The Impact of Chinese Geoeconomics on Ethnic Communities: A Case Study of Pakistan, supervised by Christophe Jaffrelot

Silvio Icka

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

Discipline(s): Political Science

Ebunoluwa Iyamu

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Colonial and Postcolonial Penology history (torture, discipline, punishment, prison), History of Human Rights, State-building, and Security – In West Africa

Discipline(s): History

Clara Jacquot

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

Research Interest(s): Sociology of public action, Sociology of health, Territorial communities

Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Work, Employment and Professions, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

L’action des collectivités locales en santé publique

Malo Jan

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

Research Interest(s): Climate politics Legislative politics Party politics Quantitative and computational methods A Conflictual Climate? A Comparative Study of Party Competition on Climate Change in Western Europe.

Thesis topic:

Un climat conflictuel ? Une étude comparée des réponses des élus nationaux au changement climatique en Europe de l'Ouest.

Zoé Jan

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

Research Interest(s): Sociology of science and knowledge, Sociology of economics, Sociology of occupational health

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

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Working conditions in the flower industry

Xi Jin

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Data and Product Targeting and Niche Platform

Supervisor(s): Eduardo Perez, Franz Ostrizek

Ophélie Jouan

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Art History, Looted Art, Cultural Heritage in Armed conflicts, Restitution

Discipline(s): History

Gabrielle Jourde

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

Research Interest(s): Feminist and Queer Theory; Literature and Politics ; Liberalism; Democracy; Social Movements; Sexual Ethics.

Discipline(s): Political Science

Thesis topic:

Conditions of Political Freedom after #MeToo: Autotheories and a Non- Sovereign Feminist Perspective on Freedom

Riddhi Kalsi

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Research Interest(s): Labour Economics; Applied Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Quantitative Insights into Labor Dynamics in France: Evidence on Job Mobility, Gender Gap and Privatization

Supervisor(s) : Jean-Marc Robin, with thesis committee members Moshe Buchinsky, Junnan He

Johanna Kilger

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): #VALUE!

Discipline(s): History

Lorenz Kipp

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays on the Societal Consequences of Mobile Connectivity and Social Media

Supervisor(s) : Julia Cagé

Bartholomew Konechni

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

Research Interest(s): Health, Crisis

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Studying the Changing Pattern of Spatial Mobility During the COVID-19 Crisis in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands
 

Alexandra Koroleva

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): History of the academic culture in the USSR, Perestroïka

Discipline(s): History

Lucie Kraepiel

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

Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Work, Employment and Professions, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Designing and organising outpatient care for cardiovascular diseases: professional and organisational challenges

Floriane Labarussiat

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

Discipline(s): Political Science

Quentin Lacmari

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

Research Interest(s): Precarious work, moral economy, labor organisation and collective action, urban metabolism and networks

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Global economy, capitalism, extraction, State, political regimes, mobilisations

Discipline(s): Sociology

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Jordan

Language(s): French, English, Arabic, Persian, Spanish

Thesis topic:

Le travail en mouvement(s). Précarité, mobilité et (dé)mobilisation des livreurs de plateforme et collecteurs de déchets à Amman, supervised by Éric Verdeil & Lilian Mathieu

Lucille Lacroix

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

Discipline(s): Political Science

Thomas Laffitte

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

Research Interest(s): European Political Economy International Political Economy European Integration Fiscal and Monetary Policy Institutionalism Mixed-methods Central and Eastern Europe

Thesis topic:

The Decay of the European Consolidation Regime: Gradual Institutional Change and the Path Towards Eurobonds, under the supervision of Colin Hay and Thomas Fetzer

Hicham Lahouiri

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

Research Interest(s): israeli politics, study of political parties, local governance, development of political elites

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

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Israel

Thesis topic:

Le Likoud et les mandats locaux. Comment les mandats locaux permettent-ils l’émergence d’une nouvelle classe politique ?, supervised by Alain Dieckhoff

Lucas Lam

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

Research Interest(s): Sociology of work, Political sociology, Worklife balance

Research Group(s): Work, Employment and Professions

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

The triple shift of mayors from small cities: municipal, professional and family life

Iris Lambert

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

Research Interest(s): Ethics of political violence; Terrorist organisations and strategies of terrorism; International Relations; Data analysis

Research Group(s): Violence, war and peace

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Thesis topic:

Quelle que fut la part du feu : des FARC-EP au PKK, portrait d'une normativité rebelle, supervised by Ariel Colonomos

Natalia Lanko

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Trading Corporations, Informal Imperialism, Political Economy, Legal History, Intellectual History from Below, 18th and 19th century, British Empire, Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean.

Discipline(s): History

Mattéo Lanoë

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

Research Interest(s): Socialization, Life-course, Social health inequalities, Chronic illness, Economic sociology, Social epidemiology

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

When the Virus Strains: Life Course, Dispositions and Illness Trajectories of Post-Acute Infectious Syndromes (provisional title)

Elder Lara-Castañeda

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

Research Interest(s): Life course, Older adults, Social vulnerabilities, Social stratification

Discipline(s): Demography, Sociology

Thesis topic:

Past, Present, and Future Risks of Widowhood Around the World

Rachida Larinouna

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

Research Group(s): Evaluation of Democracy

Discipline(s): Economics

Alice Lasvergnas

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

Discipline(s): Political Science

Thesis topic:

“Explaining apathy, rethinking communication. Democratic theory through sociology in the United States between 1944 and 1962.”

Felipe Lauritzen

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

Thesis topic:

Essays in Political Economics: Democracy Representation and Inequalities

Supervisor(s) : Julia Cagé

Cécile Lavier

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

Research Interest(s): Health policy

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

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

The State, its publics and their vaccines. Sociohistory of sexual vaccinations (1990-2023)

Stéphane Lavoipierre

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

Research Interest(s): Sociology of health, Sociology of professions, Sociology of public policy

Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Work, Employment and Professions, Governance and Economic Organisations

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Comprendre la politique d'extension de la couverture maladie : le cas des soins dentaires

Ninon Le Cozannet-Laidin

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

Research Interest(s): Politiques Publiques, Mise en oeuvre, Politiques Sociales, Protection de l’enfance, Prévention et participation des familles, France, Suède

Research Group(s): The State as a Producer of Public Policies

Language(s): French, English

Thesis topic:

Les politiques de protection de l’enfance à l’épreuve du parenting. Comparaison des pratiques préventives et participatives des travailleur·euses sociaux·ales auprès des familles en France et en Suède, under the supervision of Nathalie Morel and Philippe Bezes.

Clara Le Gallic-Ach

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

Research Interest(s): Gender, Social media, Gender-based violence, MeToo movement

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Reporting gender-based violence in France since #MeToo
 

Rachel Le Marois

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

Research Interest(s): Sociology of work, Human resources, Disability studies, Disability management, Invisible disability, Disability disclosure, Organizational policies, Public policies

Discipline(s): Sociology

Language(s): English

Thesis topic:

Invisible disability at work in French organizations today

Lise Lecuyer

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

Research Interest(s): Gentrification, School choices, Social diversity, Social background

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Urban and School Dynamics in Bagneux: Progressive Gentrification Without School Integration? (Provisional Title)

 

 

 

Jeong-A Lee

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

Research Interest(s): Demography, South Korea, Fertility, Life course

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Fertility intentions and behaviours in the context of changing ideals in South Korea and East Asia
 

Claire Morgane Lejeune

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

Research Interest(s): Ecologie politique; histoire environnementale; planification ; crise démocratique; articulation Etat/marché; nouvelles formes de capitalisme

Sibylle Léonard

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

Discipline(s): Political Science

Aymeric Leroy

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

Research Interest(s): Resentment, Nietzsche, Foucault, theory of democracy, populism, critical theory.

Discipline(s): Political Science

Thesis topic:

‘A Genealogy of (Anti-)Resentment’ 

Joshua Leung

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Diplomatic History, Jewish History, Polish History, History of Human Rights

Discipline(s): History

Arié Levy

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law