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Po's Faculty grows : 16 professors and researchers
join Sciences Po in 2012-2013 Po
The recruitment of researchers
and professor-researchers is fundamental to
the scientific development of any institution
in higher education and research. Consequently,
over the past few years Sciences Po has taken
part in an ambitious recruitment policy set
to be continued in the long term.
Over the course of the 2012-2013 academic school
year, we have had the pleasure of welcoming
16 new researchers and professor-researchers
to Sciences Po: Laurent Bonnefoy, Paola
Lopez Caballero, Mario Del Pero, Martial Foucault,
Laurent Gayer, Olivier Godechot, Colin Hay,
Gerd-Rainer Horn, Vincent-Antonin Lépinay,
Pap Ndiaye, Olivier Pilmis, Jan Rovny, VirginieTournay,
Louis-André Vallet, Dina Waked and Roberto
Zaugg.
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Gerd-Rainer
Horn
Gerd-Rainer Horn joined the
Department and the Centre for History (CHSP)
as a Professor of Political History.
Gerd-Rainer Horn, PhD from the
University of Michigan, has worked in the United
States, Germany, Belgium and Great Britain
A specialist in the contemporary
history of Western Europe (1920-1980), he is
currently studying the history of social movements
and leftist Catholicism.
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Mario
Del Pero
Mario Del Pero joined the Department
and the Centre for History (CHSP) as a Full
Professor.
PhD from the University of Milan,
he previously served as an Associate Professor
at the University of Bologna, where he taught
international history, the history of transatlantic
relations and the history of American diplomacy.
His current research focuses
on the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970-1980s
as well as the development of environmental
politics in Europe and the United States. His
work concentrates also on the transformation
and internal contradictions of the American
hegemony post-1970.
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| Pap
Ndiaye
Pap Ndiaye joined the Department and the Centre
for History (CSHP) as a Full Professor.
An ENS alumni and Full Professor
in history, he also holds a Master from the
University of Virginia and a PhD from the EHESS.
Pap Ndiaye, who previously lectured at the Centre
of North American Studies at the EHESS, has
also taught at the University of Pennsylvania
for several years.
After investigating the history
of large American corporations, he focused his
research on developing a transnational and comparative
perspective of the history and sociology of
minorities in the United States.
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Roberto
Zaugg
Roberto Zaugg joined the Department
and the Centre for History (CHSP) as a Post-Doctoral
Researcher in modern history.
After completing his PhD at
the University of Naples Federico II, he served
as an Assistant Professor of Modern History
at the University of Bale and Academic Coordinator
at the Basel Graduate School of History.
His research is principally
concerned with practices and institutions in
Atlantic and Mediterranean commerce, as well
as migratory trends, Euro-African relations,
journal writing, and travel literature.
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| Dina
Waked
Dina Waked joined the School of Law and PSIA
as a KFAS Assistant Professor.
After completing a double diploma
in economy and law, Dina Waked graduated with
a Master of Laws (LLM) and PhD from Harvard
Law School, where her thesis was awarded the
Harvard Law School 2012 John M. Olin Law &
Economics Prize.
Her research is principally
concerned with competition, development, and
growth in developing countries.
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Laurent
Bonnefoy
Laurent Bonnefoy joined the
Department of Political Science and the Centre
for International Studies and Research (CERI)
as a CNRS Research Fellow.
Following a PhD at Sciences
Po, he served as an Associate Researcher at
the French Centre for Archaeology and Social
Sciences in Sana (CEFAS) from 2001-2009. From
2010-2012, he was a Research Fellow in charge
of the Palestinian Office at the French Institute
for the Near East (Ifpo).
A specialist in the contemporary
Persian Golf, Laurent Bonnefoy works on the
politicisation of the Salafi movement, revolutionary
processes in the Arab world and politics in
Yemen.
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Paola
Lopez Caballero
Paola Lopez Caballero joined
the Department of Political Science and the
Centre for International Studies and Research
(CERI) as a CNRS Research Fellow.
Originally from Mexico, Paola
Lopez Cabellero has a PhD in Anthropology from
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS). A Visiting Scholar at Columbia University
and post-doctoral Research Fellow at CERI, she
has also spent two years teaching at the Colegio
de Mexico.
A specialist in the anthropology
of the state and nation in Latin America, she
studies the “unexpected” processes
of citizen formation as well as public policies
concerning urban heritage and its relationship
to the national imagination.
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Martial
Foucault
Economist and political analyst,
Martial Foucault joined the Department of Political
Science and the Centre d'études européennes
(CEE) as a Full Professor.
Martial Foucault, PhD in Economics,
was a Research Fellow at the European University
Institute in Florence before directing the European
University of Excellence at McGill University
from 2011-2013.
His work focuses on the analysis
of the political economy, policy evaluation
and public finances as well as the study of
voting behaviour. He also works on the development
of statistical methods.
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Laurent Gayer
Laurent Gayer joined the Department
of Political Science and the Centre d’Etudes
et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) as a
CNRS Research Fellow.
Laurent Gayer, PhD from Sciences
Po, has worked at the Centre Universitaire de
Recherches sur l’Action Publique (CURAPP,
Amiens) as well as the Centre de Sciences Humaines
in New Dehli from 2009-2012.
A specialist of the Indian subcontinent,
he researches political and criminal violence
in India andPakistan. He is currently finalising
research on Karachi, Pakistan’s urban,
economic and financial hub.
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Colin
Hay
Colin Hay, PhD in political
Science, joined the department of Political
Science and the Centre d’Etudes Européennes
(CEE) as a Full Professor
As a Professor at the University
of Birmingham, he directed the Department of
Political Science and International Relations
before joining the University of Sheffield in
2007, where he co-directed the Sheffield Political
Economy Research Institute.
Chief-Editor of the academic
journal New Political economy, he also participated
in the foundation of two other respected reviews:
Comparative European Politics and British Politics.
His research concerns European
integration, the European social model and globalization.
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Virginie
Tournay
VirginieTournay joined the Department
of Political Science and CEVIPOF as a CNRS Resarch
Fellow.
Following a DEA in cellular
biology and a thesis in Political Science, VirginieTournay
joined the CNRS as a Research Fellow in 2006.
Prior to joining the CEVIPOF, she was a Research
Fellow at the PACTE Research Centre (IEP in
Grenoble).
A specialist in the process
of institutionalization concerning the development
of biotechnology, Virginie Tournay was awarded
the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2011.
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Jan
Rovny
Jan Rovny, PhD in Political
Science, joined the Department of Political
Science, the Centre d’études européennes
(CEE) and the Interdisciplinary Research Centre
for the Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)
as an Assistant Professor.
Using comparative models, his
research focuses on European political life,
competition between parties, shared views between
parties and how political parties evolve in
relation to electoral expectations.
He is also an Associate Researcher
at the Centre for European Research at the University
of Gothenburg.
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Olivier
Godechot
Olivier Godechot joins the MaxPo
Research Center as Co-Director. He succeeds
Marion Fourcade as the holder of the AXA-Sciences
Po Chair of Economic Sociology. A CNRS Research
Fellow, he is also affiliated with the Centre
for Studies in Social Change - OSC.
A Graduate of ENS, Olivier Godechot
holds a PhD in Sociology from CNAM and is an
accredited Research Director at Sciences Po.
In 2013, he received the Bronze Medal from the
CNRS.
An Economic Sociologist, his
research focuses on finance, labour markets,
academia, and network sociology. At MaxPo he
will direct a research group on the financialisation
of modern societies with a special interest
in financial labour market mobility and its
effects on broader inequalities.
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| Vincent-Antonin
Lépinay
Vincent-Antonin Lépinay,
a graduate of the ENS with a PhD in Anthropology
from the Ecole des Mines in Paris, PhD in sociology
from Columbia University in New York City, joined
the Department of Sociology and the Medialab
as an Associate Professor.
Previously an Assistant Professor
at the Massachusettes Institut of Technology
(MIT), he was also a Professor at the European
University of Saint-Petersburg and the University
of Sao Paulo. In 2011, he was rewarded the Thomas
Merton Award by Columbia University in New York
City for the best monograph in sociology.
His research focuses on the
history and economic sociology of financial,
banking and legal systems. He is also working
on the theory of organisations, social theory,
and new methods of digital humanities.
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Olivier
Pilmis
Olivier Pilmis joined the Department
of Sociology and and the Centre for Studies
in Social Change - OSC - as CNRS Research Fellow.
A Sciences Po graduate with
a PhD in Sociology from the EHESS, he is also
an accredited Professor in economics and social
sciences.
Interested in understanding
how individuals cope with uncertainty, he uses
the sociology of risk, labour and occupations
in order to propose a sociology of economic
forecasting.
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Louis-André
Vallet
Louis-André Vallet, PhD
from Paris IV Sorbonne, hasjoined the Department
of Sociology and the Centre for Studies in Social
Change - OSC - as a CNRS Research Director.
An accredited Research Director
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS), Louis-André Vallet was previously
a Research Fellow at the quantitative sociological
research centre of the Centre for Research in
Economics and Statistics (CREST) .
His research interests include
the analysis of social stratification and mobility,
the sociology of education and the statistical
modelling of categorical variables.
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