Chairs

and their Titles at the EHESS

The matrises de confrences and directions dtudes represent the academic chairs of the
school and are endowed with permanent titles. Taken together they constitute the schools
portfolio of expertise in research training.

Marc ABLS: Anthropology of Institutions

Michel AGIER: Anthropology of Movement and New Forms of Urban Logic

Jean-Pierre ALBERT: Anthropology of Christian Practice

Jean-Loup AMSELLE: Anthropology and Historicity

Jean ANDREAU: Economy and Society in the Roman World

Mathieu ARNOUX: Work and Industry in Pre-Industrial Europe

Yohann AUCANTE: The Universal Social State in Northern Europe from the 19th to the 20th Century

Stphane AUDOIN-ROUZEAU: Historical Anthropology of Combat and War Violence in the 20th
Century

Maurice AYMARD: Modern and Contemporary History of the Mediterranean

Franois AZOUVI: The Political and Cultural History of Modern Philosophy

Isabelle BACKOUCHE: Urban History: the Territories of a Capital City from 19th to 21Ith Century

Nicolas BARREYRE: The US State from the Late 18th to the Early 20th Century: Spaces, Interactions,
Institutions

Laurent BARRY: Anthropology of Kinship

Marc Olivier BARUCH: The Political History of the Modern Civil Service

Jrme BASCHET: Anthropo-Historical Comparatism

Philippe BATAILLE: The Sociology of the Vulnerable Subject: Confronting Discrimination, Sickness and
Death

Gilles BATAILLON: The Sociology and History of Political Forms in Latin America from the 19th to the
20th Century

Remy BAZENGUISSA GANGA: War and Politics in the African Context: an Anthropological Approach

Grard BAUR: Economic and Social History of the Countryside from the 17th to the 20th Century

Katia BEGUIN: States, Societies and Public Debt in Modern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century
Nicole BELMONT: Anthropology of Oral Transmission in Europe

Alban BENSA: Oceanic Societies and the Question of the Political

Wladimir BERELOWITSCH: Social and Cultural History of Russia from the Early 18th to the 19th
Century

Henri BERESTYCKI: Mathematical Analysis and Modelling

Laurent BERGER: Anthropology of Capitalist Globalisation: The Globalisation of Trade and Social
Change in the Western Indian Ocean

Alain BLUM: Societies, the State and Populations in Russia and the USSR

Gorgio BLUNDO: Anthropology of Government

Ccile BOX: Moving Image and Political Expression in the Digital Era, as Seen through the Audio-
Visual Narratives of the Arab Uprisings

Luciano BOI: Geometry, Scientific Conceptualization and the Philosophy of Nature

Philippe BOISSINOT: Archaeology and Spaces: the Protohistorical and Ancient World

Rolande BONNAIN-DULON: The Ethnohistory of Rural France

Nol BONNEUIL : Chronologies of Human Populations

Michel BONNIN: Power, Memory and Society in the Peoples' Republic of China

Patrice BOURDELAIS: Population, Epidemics and Health

Jrme BOURDIEU: Economic History of Inequality

Alain BOUREAU : History of Belief Systems in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Pierre BOURETZ: Religion and Society

Franois BOURGUIGNON: Inequality, Belief and Redistribution

Habib BOUSSOUF-IDRISSI: Mathematics and Economical Statistics

Jean BOUTIER: Comparative History of the European Aristocracy from the 16th to the 18th Century

Philippe BOUTRY: Religious History of the 19th Century

Hamit BOZARSLAN: Historical Sociology of Violence in the Near and Middle East

Stphane BRETON: Signs in Society

Falk BRETSCHNEIDER: Penal Practices and Judicial Space in the German Speaking World from the
16th to the18th Century

Eric BRIAN: Historical Sociology of Symbolic Instruments

Blandine BRIL : Cognitive Psychology; Comparative Cultural Psychology

Franois BRIOIS: Culture, Technology and Trade in the Pre- and Protohistorical Mediterranean

Esteban BUCH: Music, Musicology and the Social Sciences

Juliette CADIOT: Imperialism and Language Policy in the Russian Empire and USSR: 1860-1990

Claude CALAME: Literature and Society in Ancient Greece

Jordi CANAL: History of the Counter-Revolution in Europe in the 19th Century

Marcello CARASTRO: Religious Anthropology and Cultural History of Ancient Greece

Marion CAREL: Reasoning and Arguing in Language

Giovanni CARERI: History and Theory of Art and Images

Barbara CARNEVALI: Social Aesthetics: the Theory and History of Prestige

Guillaume CARR: Economic and Social History of Pre-Modern Japan from the 16th to the 19th
Century

Jean-Michel CARRI: Practices and Discourses of Late Antiquity

Jacqueline CARROY: History of Psychology and Psychopathology

Michel CARTIER: Economic Anthropology of the Chinese World

Jean-Pierre CAVAILL: Historical Anthropology of Modern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century

Olivier CAYLA: Theory of Juridical Norms and their Application

Daniel CEFAI: Sociology of Collective Mobilisation and Public Issues

Simona CERUTTI: Judicial Authority in the Ancient Rgime

Sabine CHALVON-DEMERSAY: Sociology of the Media

Christophe CHAMLEY: Apprenticeship and Coordination

Hilary CHAPPELL: Linguistic Typology of East Asia

Roger CHARTIER: Socio-History of Cultural Practices from the 16th to the 18th Centuries

Francis CHATEAURAYNAUD: Sociological Models for the Analysis of the Process of Mobilisation

Marc CHEMILLIER: The Anthropology of Knowledge: The Modelling of Oral Based Expertise

Yves CHEVRIER: Society, Power and Political Process in 20th Century China

Eve CHIAPELLO: Sociology of the Transformations of Capitalism

Jacques CHIFFOLEAU: History of Medieval Religion, Law and Institutions

Giovanna CIFOLETTI: Mathematical Knowledge and the Theorizing of the World in the Modern Age

Nathalie CLAYER: Social and Political History of the Dynamic between Nation and Confession in Post-
Imperial South-Eastern Europe

Catherine CLMENTIN-OJHA: Dynamic of Religious Movements in the Indian World: from

Anthropology to History

Emanuele COCCIA: History and Theory of Christian Normativity from its Origins to the Modern Era

Claudine COHEN: History of the Life and Earth Sciences

Yves COHEN: History of Action and Practical Rationalities in the 20th Century: Industry, Politics and
the Human Sciences

Jean-Paul COLLEYN: Visual Anthropology

Emanuele CONTE: The Historicity of Law from the Middle Ages to the Present

Pietro CORSI: Science, Institutional Politics and the Public

Fanny COSANDEY: The Patrimonial Figures of Public Power in Ancien Rgime France

Alain COTTEREAU: The Sense of Social Fairness and the Meaning of Social Reality

Jocelyne DAKHLIA: Political Models and Cultural Boundaries in Mediterranean Islam

Claudia DAMASCENO: The Spaces and Societies of Brazil: Towns, Property, Territories, Landscapes.
Regional and Comparative Approaches from the 16th to the 21st Century

Franoise DAVOINE: Madness and Social Bonds

Michel DE FORNEL: Cognitive Linguistics

tienne DE LA VAISSIRE: Medieval Societies of Central Asia: Migration and Cultural Integration

Batrice DELAURENTI: Religion, Science and Magic in the Middle Ages

Alain DELISSEN: History of Modern Korea

Gabrielle DEMANGE: Games Theory

Maria Cecilia D'ERCOLE: Trade and Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean

Brigitte DERLON: Anthropology of Art: the Reception and Assimilation of the Artwork

Robert DESCIMON: Social History of Political Power

Philippe DESCOLA: Symbolic Ecology

Vincent DESCOMBES: Philosophy of Action

Sophie DESROSIERS: Textiles and Societies

Emmanuel DESVEAUX: The Anthropology of North American Indians

Alain DEWERPE: Comparative Social History of Industrialization

Jean DHOMBRES: History of the Exact Sciences

Georges DIDI-HUBERMAN: Anthropology of the Visual

Nicolas DODIER: The Sociology of Health and the Medical World

Jerome DOKIC: Cognitive Philosophy

Laurent DOUSSET: Organisations and Social Transformation in Australia

Laura Lee DOWNS: Comparative History of Social Management in 20th Century France and England

Jean-Pierre DOZON: Interface between Theory and Practice in Anthropology

Christophe DUHAMELLE: Shared Sovereignty and the Construction of Belonging in Modern Germany

Emmanuel DUPOUX: Language and its Acquisition in light of its Biological and Psychological
Conditions

Christian DUVERGER: The Social and Cultural Anthropology of Mesoamerica

Hassan EL BOUDRARI: Religious Practices in Mediterranean Islam

Nicolas ELLISON: Anthropology of the Environment and Economic Practices

Pascal ENGEL: Belief, Reasons and Norms

Ivan ERMAKOFF: The Historical Sociology of Persecution: Agents, Contexts and Forms of Organization

Jean-Louis FABIANI: Natural Worlds and Cultural Worlds: the Historical Sociology of Knowledge
Configurations

Daniel FABRE: The Anthropology of Europe

Pierre-Antoine FABRE: Spiritual Practices, Discursive Regimes and Social Relations in the Modern Era
from the16th to the 18th Century

Didier FASSIN: Political and Moral Anthropology

Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX: History of the Family

loi FICQUET: History and Comparative Anthropology of the Horn of Africa

Agns FINE: History and Anthropology of Gender in European Societies

Sophie FISHER: Methods in Linguistics

Claudine FONTANON: History of Applied Sciences from the 19th to the 20th Century

Vincent FOURNIAU: Empires and Societies in Central Asia

Batrice FRAENKEL: Anthropology of Writing

Patrick FRIDENSON: Business and Work in Western Europe and the United States in the 19th and
20th Centuries

Jean-Claude GALEY: Social Anthropology of India and the Indian World

Afrnio GARCIA: Political Anthropology of Brazil

Marcel GAUCHET: Constitution of the Subject in Contemporary Societies from the 18th to the 20th
Century

Jean-Max GAUDILLIRE : Madness and Social Bonds

Jean-Paul GAUDILLIRE: The Life Sciences and their Relation to Medicine and Industry in 20th
Century

Valrie GELZEAU: Korea: Territories and Societies of the 'Long Partition'

Pierre-Yves GEOFFARD: General Perspective: Health, Public Health

Maurice GODELIER: Figures of Power, Kinship Relations and Sexuality

Sylvie-Anne GOLDBERG : History, Ideas, Cultures and Societies of the Traditional Jewish World

Nilfer GLE: Multiple Modernities

Jean-Franois GOSSIAUX: Anthropology of Political Spaces

Joseph GOY: Social History and Historical Anthropology of Europe from the 18th to the 20th
Centuries

Nancy L. GREEN: Comparative Social History: Migration, Work, Society

Andr GRELON: Sociology of Technical Professions

Jean-Yves GRENIER: The Economy and the History of Economic Thought from the 18th to the 19th
Centuries

Maurizio GRIBAUDI: History of European Societies from the 19th to the 20th Century: Links,
Networks, Configurations

Serge GRUZINSKI: The Cultures and Societies of Colonial America from the 16th to the 17th Century

Patrice GUENIFFEY: History of the French Revolution

Caterina GUENZI: Anthropology of Local Forms of Knowledge in South Asia

Roger GUESNERIE: Public Economy

Andr GUNTHERT: Visual History

Pascale HAAG: Psychology and Linguistics in the Indian World

Klaus HAMBERGER: Anthropology of Social Space

Bernard HARCOURT: Political Theory and the Practice of Justice

Franois HARTOG: Historiography

Pierre-Cyrille HAUTCOEUR: Political Economy of Financial Markets

Marie-Angle HERMITTE: Sciences of the State and Law

Rita HERMON-BELOT: Religious Diversity and Secularism in France from the 18th to the 20th Century

Yves HERSANT: The History and Critique of Humanism

Danile HERVIEU-LGER: Sociology of the Religious

Bernard HEYBERGER: Historical Anthropology of Christians in the Islamic World

Liliane HILAIRE-PEREZ: Intellectual History of Technical Knowledge from the 18th to the 20th Century

Jean-Charles HOURCADE: Public Economy and Global Environment

Bernard HUBERT: Knowledge of Nature and the Nature(s) of Knowledge

tienne HUBERT: Medieval Archaeology and History: Spaces, Habitats and Societies in the Countries
of the Western Mediterranean

Alice INGOLD: Management of Natural Resources from the 19th to the 20th Century

Dominique IOGNA-PRAT: The 'Territories' of the Church: the Medieval World and the Social Sciences
of Religions

Liora ISRAL: Application of the Law and the Exercise of Legal Practice in the 20th Century

Marc IVALDI: Applied Industrial Economy

Christian JACOB: Comparative History of Practices and Traditions of Knowledge

Jean JAMIN: History and Epistemology of Social Anthropology

Pierre-Lonce JORDAN: Anthropology of Hypermedia

Grard JORLAND: Historical Epistemology

Christian JOUHAUD: History and Historiographies of the 'French 17th Century'

Frdric JOULIAN: Evolutionary Anthropology

Pierre JUDET DE LA COMBE: Literary Interpretation: Theory and Practice

Jos KAGABO: History and Memory in Eastern and Central-Eastern Africa

Wolfgang KAISER: Social History of the Mediterranean World in the Modern Era
Bruno KARSENTI: Social Theory and Normativity

Farhad KHOSROKHAVAR: Sociology of Contemporary Iran

Rainer Maria KIESOW: The Legal Order

Maurice KRIEGEL: Sociocultural History of Medieval and Modern Judaism

Morgane LABB: The State and the Social Sciences

Denis LABORDE : The Anthropology of Music

Christian LAMOUROUX-SALVAT : Territory and Knowledge in China: the Formation of the Pre-Modern
State

Sylvain LAURENS: Sociology of European Elites: between Private Interests and Competing Definitions
of the Public Interest

Herv LE BRAS: Demography

Sbastien LECHEVALIER : The Japanese Economy

Jacques LEENHARDT: Imaginary and Social Functions of Art and Literature

Cyril LEMIEUX: The Media and Opposition Forces in the Digital Age: the Sociology of Access to Public
Visibility

Antoine LILTI: History and Historicity of the Enlightenment

Franois LISSARRAGUE: Anthropology and Image: The Greek Experience

Sabina LORIGA: Time and History: Norms, Concepts, Experiences

Antoine LYON-CAEN: Law, Economy and Business

Judith LYON-CAEN: Literature and Experiences of the Social World in 19th Century France

Catarina MADEIRA SANTOS: Colonial Experiences, African Powers and Knowledge-based Authorities
in 'Lusophone Africa from the 17th to the 21st Century

Alain MAH: Juridical Anthropology of Arabo-Berber Societies

Pierre MANENT: History of Political Philosophy

Bernard MANIN: Theory of Democratic Institutions

Brigitte MARIN: Public Administration, Regulations and Urban Knowledge: Southern Europe and the
European Mediterranean from the 18th to the 19th Century

David MARTIMORT: Incentivizing Mechanicisms and Public Governance

Genevive MASSARD-GUILBAUD: The Environmental, Economic and Social History of the

Contemporary World
Andr MASSON : Microeconomy of Intertemporal and Intergenerational Choices

Marie-Claude MAUREL: Central and Oriental Europe: Systemic Transition and the Reconfiguration of
Territories

ric MAURIN: Economy of Work and Social Policy

Elikia M'BOKOLO: History of Black Africa from the 19th Century to the Present

Pierre-Michel MENGER: Sociology of Work and the Arts

ric MICHAUD: History and Ideologies of Contemporary Art

Patrick MICHEL : Political Approach to the Religious: The Socio-History of Relations between Religion
and Politics

Daniel MILO: Natural Philosophy

Philippe MINARD: Comparative History of Socio-Economic Regulation in France and England

Marie MIRAN-GUYON: Islam South of the Savanna:.Muslim Societies and Religious Cultures in West
Coastal Africa

Marie-Elisabeth MITSOU: Cultural History of Modern Greece (1800-1940): Identity, Codification of

Memory and Cultural Transfer

Pierre MONNET: History of Urban Societies, History of Germanic Territories in the Middle Ages

Natalia MUCHNIK: Diasporas of the Modern Period (16th-17thC): Comparing and Connecting

Francine MUEL-DREYFUS: Social Processes of the Construction of Identity

Alain MUSSET: Perception and Representation of Space and the Configuring of Territories: Europe
and Latin America from the 16th to the 21st Century

Jean-Pierre NADAL: Complex Systems in the Social Sciences and Cognitive Science

Michel NAEPELS: Anthropology of Violence: Conflicts, Historicities and Local Post-War

Reconstructions

Paolo NAPOLI: Corpus iuris administrationis: A.History of Normative Categories and Practices

Frederic NEF: Logic and Ontology of Social Objects

Grard NOIRIEL: Socio-History of Power Relations from the 19th to the 20th Centuriy

Paolo ODORICO : Cultural History of the Byzantine World, Neo-Hellenic and South-Eastern Europe

Maurice OLENDER: Religious Forms of Knowledge and the Genesis of the Human Sciences

Jean-Pierre: OLIVIER DE SARDAN: Anthropologie of Social Change

Andr ORLAN: Belief, Systems and Collective Representations in the Field of Economics
Marie-Vic OZOUF-MARIGNIER: Territorial Identities, Geographical Knowledge, Spatial Planning

Serge PAUGAM: Sociology of Inequalities and Social Ruptures

Xavier PAULES: A Social History of Pleasures: Opium and Games of Chance in First Modernity China
(1850-1949)

Emmanuel PEDLER: The Dynamics of Culture: a Historical Sociology of Artistic Institutions

Jean-Claude PENRAD-BESSON: Images of the Religious in Africa

Dominique PESTRE: Science, Society, Power: A Historical Approach

Mary PICONE: Biological Data: Imagination and Identity

Thomas PIKETTY: Political Economy of Inequalities

Sylvain PIRON: Intellectual History of Medieval Societies

Jean-Michel POISSON: Medieval History and Archaeology

Jacques POLONI-SIMARD: History of the Urban Societies of Latin America from the 16th to the 19th
Centuries

Enric PORQUERES I GEN: Political Kinship

Gilles POSTEL-VINAY: Economic History

Franois POUILLON: Anthropology of the Arab World

Christophe PROCHASSON: History of Political Practices and Representations in Europe of the

Contemporary Era

Christelle RABIER: The History of the Medicalization of Europe from the 14th to the 19th Century

Kapil RAJ: Forms of Knowledge, Circulations, Globalisations: South Asia and Europe from the 16th to
the 20th Century

Francois RECANATI: Context and Content

Richard RECHTMAN: Anthropology of Subjectivities

Olivier REMAUD: History of the Category of Modernity: Discourse, Myths and Problems (1750-1950)

Juliette RENNES: Controversies over Equality in Law: a Socio-History of Argumentative Regimes in

Democracy

Jacques REVEL: Social History of Cultural Models

Dinah RIBARD: The History of Intellectual Labour from1500-1900

Gilles RIVIRE: Anthropology of Andean Societies

Yann RIVIRE: Power, Law and Society in Ancient Rome

Sandrine ROBERT: Archeogeography and the Construction, Transmission and Resilience of

Landscapes

Philippe ROGER: Poetics and Politics in Europe

Antonella ROMANO: Science, Knowledge and Religion: Catholic Europe and the early modern World

Filippo RONCONI: Writing and Society in Byzantium

Pierre ROSANVALLON: History and Philosophy of Politics

Pierre ROSENSTIEHL Graphs and Associated Algebraic Structures: Labyrinths, Maps, Mechanical
Networks, Acentered Systems

Franoise SABBAN: Technical Expertise and Everyday Knowledge in the Chinese World

Emmanuel SAINT-FUSCIEN: Obedience and Authority in the World of Education:1890-1950

Patricia SAMPAIO-SILVA-UGUET: History of Brazil from the 19th to the 20th Century

Jacques SAPIR: Economy of the Ex-Soviet Economic Systems in Transition

Gisle SAPIRO: Sociology of Disinterestedness: the Intellectual and Artistic Professions between
Autonomy and Engagement

Jean-Marie SCHAEFFER: Artistic Creation and Aesthetic Relation: Objects, Categorial Frameworks and
Functions

Jean-Frdric SCHAUB: Authorities and their Establishment: a Comparative History

Jean-Claude SCHMITT: History of Images and of Systems of Representation in the Medieval West

Dominique SCHNAPPER: Sociology of Citizenship

Silvia SEBASTIANI: The Atlantic of the Enlightenment: Race, Gender, History

Carlo SEVERI: Anthropology of Memory

Franois SIGAUT: Anthropology and History of Technical Knowledge and Practice

Valeria SINISCALCHI: Anthropology of Economic Spaces

Alessandro STANZIANI: Global History of Economic Regimes from the 17th to the 20th Century

Wiktor STOCZKOWSKI: Cosmological Knowledge and Conceptions in the Contemporary West

Serge TCHERKEZOFF: Anthropology of Polynesia

Miriam TESCHEL: Identity, Preferences and Well-Being: a Conceptual Approach

Valrie TESNIRE: Professional Practices and Editorial Policies from the 19th Century 'Scientific
Bookshop'' to the Digital Age

Irne THRY: Sociology of the Familial Institution

Laurent THVENOT: Pragmatic Sociology of Politics and Morality

Isabelle THIREAU: Social Norms and Legitimacy in Contemporary China

Jol THORAVAL: Cultural Anthropology of the Contemporary Chinese World

Michel TIBON-CORNILLOT: The Philosophy of Technical Knowledge and Practice

Jean TIROLE: Advanced Subjects in the Financing of Businesses

Christian TOPALOV: The City: Knowledge, Power, and Societies

Lahouari TOUATI: History and Anthropology of the Literary Culture of the Islamic Middle Ages

Alain TRANNOY : Economics of Inequality

Yannis TSIOMIS : Studies on Modern and Contemporary Greek Society

Philippe URFALINO: Sociology of Decision-Making and Collective Deliberation

Ccile VAN DE VELDE: Comparative Sociology of the Ages of Life and Generations

Sebastian VEG: Literature and Democracy in 20th Century China: a Non-Institutional History of
Politics

Catherine VELAY-VALLANTIN: History of Story-Telling

Thierry VERDIER: Economic Vitality and Social Interaction

Ccile VIDAL: Colonization, Slavery, and Creolization in Atlantic America

Georges VIGARELLO: History of Bodily Practices

Isabelle VILLE: Handicap in Contemporary Society

Bernard VINCENT: History of Spain

Alexander VOVIN: The Historical Linguistics of Japan and North-East Asia

Franois WEIL: Social History of North America

Michael WERNER: Socio-Cultural History of Franco-German Relations from the 19th to the 20th
Century

Michel WIEVIORKA: Sociology of Conflict

Pierre-Etienne WILL: Economic and Social History of Premodern China

Heinz WISMANN: Hermeneutics and Scholarly Traditions

Eric WITTERSHEIM: Anthropology of the State in Oceania: Urbanism, Immigration, Territories and
Globalisations

Tassadit YACINE: Anthropology of Domination: Practices, Discourses and Representations in Berber

Society

Larissa ZAKHAROVA: Communication Tools, Government Practice and Social Relations in the 20th
Century

Ekaterina ZHURAVSKAYA: Political Economy of Government and Development

Bndicte ZIMMERMANN: Work, Flexibility and the Constitution of the Social

Francis ZIMMERMANN: Anthropology and History of Science in the Indian World

Jean-Paul ZUNIGA: The Construction of Hispanic Imperialism in the Atlantic Space from the 16th to
the 19th Century