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Juliette Rennes is a French
sociologist. Since 2021, she has been the director of studies at the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). She is also the director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS).
Rennes' research topics are related to the history and sociology of gender, work, and discrimination.
Education
She studied literature at the École normale supérieure in Fontenay-Saint-Cloud. She wrote her master's thesis on the French extreme right-wing pamphlets of the 1930s, then her
Master of Advanced Studies
A Master of Advanced Studies or Master of Advanced Study (MAS, M.A.S., or MASt) is a postgraduate degree awarded in various countries. Master of Advanced Studies programs may be non-consecutive programs tailored for "specific groups of working pro ...
thesis on the genesis and dissemination of the notion of "national preference". In 1999, she joined the association
Mix-Cité and became its spokesperson from 2001 to 2003.
In 2000, she began to write a thesis in
political science
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on the sources and recompositions of anti-
egalitarianism
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since the end of the 19th century. In 2004, she did a research stay at
McGill University
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in
Montreal
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, Canada where she worked with
Marc Angenot. In 2005, under the direction of Pierre Birnbaum, she defended her thesis entitled at the
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Career
In 2006, Rennes was appointed as a lecturer at the Institute of Communication of the
Lumière University Lyon 2
Lumière University Lyon 2 (french: Université Lumière Lyon 2) is one of the three universities that comprise the current University of Lyon, having splintered from an older university of the same name, and is primarily based on two campuses in ...
, where she taught courses on discourse theory, media
semiology, and
history of journalism. In 2009, she joined a Russian-speaking
research network
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on gender, taught a master's degree on gender at
European Humanities University
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, in
Vilnius
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, Lithuania, in collaboration with Belarusian researchers.
In 2010, she was elected to the EHESS, her research program focuses on the history of controversies related to equal rights. Since October 2010, she is co-director with Rose-Marie Lagrave and Éric Fassin of the research program at EHESS entitled " genre, politique et sexualité".
In 2015, she directed an exhibition at the Museum of Living History in Montreuil entitled "Women in Men's Professions: a visual history (XIXth-XXth))".
In 2016, she directed the ''
Encyclopédie critique du genre''.
She is a statutory member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at EHESS.
Selected works
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References
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1976 births
Living people
French sociologists
French women sociologists
McGill University alumni
French feminists
People from Paris