Prize awarded for doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial work

Julien Barroche has won the 2012 Dalloz Prize for Political Science

His thesis has just been published in the collection “New Library of theses” under the title “State, liberalism and Christianity. A critique of European subsidiarity.”

We offer him our warmest congratulations.

Julien Barroche completed his thesis in December 2010 on the subject of "The post-totalitarian state. On the principle of European subsidiarity: liberalism and Christianity", under the supervision of Jean-Marie Donegani, Professor at Sciences Po.

With qualifications in political science and public law from the National Council of Universities since the spring semester of 2011, he was recruited as a lecturer in public law by INALCO and has been integrated into the educational team of the Hautes Études internationales stream directed by Anne de Tinguy, Professor and associate researcher at Sciences Po.

His main areas of research are:

• State theory, political institutions and constitutional law;
• Institutional system and political regime of the European Union
• Institutional reform underway in the Arab-Muslim world
• History of ideas, history of concepts, legal epistemology

=> You can find a summary of the book in the "Publications des doctorants et jeunes docteurs" section of the Doctoral School's website

Marine BOURGEOIS and Tom CHEVALIER, Ph.D. students at Sciences Po, won a prize in the IEP Master’s thesis competition organised by Harmattan publishers.

We offer her our warmest congratulations.

Marine BOURGEOIS, who is currently in her first year of a Ph.D. thesis supervised by Patrick Le GALÉS, Research director at CNRS and CEE, is working on the subject of the reproduction of inequalities in the process of attribution of public housing.

She has just won a prize in the Master’s thesis competition organised by Harmattan publishing house. Her Master 2 thesis, “Daily management of the attribution of public housing. Ethnographic investigation in an HLM organism,” supervised by Renaud EPSTEIN, lecturer in political science at the University of Nantes, is one of five best pieces selected for publication by Harmattan. It will be published in the Inter-National collection, Première Synthèse series, in the coming months.

Tom CHEVALIER, who is currently in his first year of a Ph.D. thesis supervised by Bruno PALLIER, Director of research at CNRS and CEE, is working on the subject of “The welfare state and young adults in OECD countries.”
He has just won a prize in the Master’s thesis competition organised by Harmattan publishing house. His Master 2 thesis, entitled “The autonomy of youth. The welfare state and young adults in France since 1945,” supervised by Bruno PALLIER, is one of the five best pieces selected for publication by Harmattan. It will be published in the Inter-National collection, Première Synthèse series, in the coming months.

Nicolas VINCI, doctoral candidate at Sciences Po, awarded the Research Grant of the Assemblée Nationale

We offer him our warmest congratulations.

Nicolas VINCI completed a Master in History at Sciences Po in 2010 with a Mention Très Bien and went on to receive the aggregation in History in 2011. He is currently completing a doctoral thesis on the subject of “Reforming France, 1969-1981” under the supervision of Jean-François Sirinelli, Professor at Sciences Po and Director of the Center for History at Sciences Po.

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Research Grant of the Assemblée Nationale: every year since 2002, in order to promote academic research and the completion of theses on parliamentary history and law, the Assembly Nationale has offered a research grant equivalent to the remuneration of contractual PhD candidates at universities for a maximum period of three years.
The jury, which met on Wednesday 14 December 2011 under the patronage of Mr Bernard ACCOYER, President of the Assemblée Nationale, is made up of deputies and university professors, and presided over by Ms Marylise LEBRANCHU, Questeure.
The comprised: Mr Bernard ACCOYER, President of the Assemblée Nationale and President of Honour; Ms Marylise LEBRANCHU, Questeure, President of the jury; Messrs Guy GEOFFREY and Gilles BOURDOULEIX, deputies; Ms Corinne LUQUIENS, Secretary General of the Assemblée Nationale and the Presidency; Messrs Michel BOIVIN and Yves DELOYE; and Ms Florence HAEGEL, Ms Anne LEVADE and M. Jean-François Sirinelli, university professors.

Benoît Pélopidas receives further honour...

His editorial "Nuclear weapons' future ripe for discussion" published by the San Francisco Chronicle has been reproduced on the website of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University.

We offer him our warmest congratulations.

In 2010, Benoît Pélopidas was awarded the:

• Best Graduate Paper 2010 for his paper entitled “When experts back policy makers: historical memory and biases. The shared nuclear proliferation paradigm in the US since the 1960s”
  
  
• and the “SNIS Award 2010 for the Best Thesis in international Studies” for his thesis “The seduction of the impossible: a study of the renunciation of nuclear weapons and the political authority of experts” jointly supervised by Ghassan Salamé, Director of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Professor of International Relations and Sciences Po and Columbia University, and Alexis Keller, Professor at the University of Geneva (thesis defended on 15 September 2010).

=> Read  Benoit Pélopidas’ biography

Benoît Pélopidas  can be contacted at bpelopidas@miis.edu

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The San Francisco Chronicle is a daily newspaper published in San Francisco and is one California’s most important newspapers.

Bibia Pavard has been awarded "City of Paris Prize for Gender Studies", for her History thesis completed at Sciences Po in late 2010

We offer her our warmest congratulations.

Bibia Pavard completed her thesis in December 2010, on the subject: “Contraception and abortion in French society (1956-1979: history of a political and cultural change” under the supervision of Jean-François Sirinelli, Professor of contemporary history and Director of the Center for History at Sciences Po.

City of Paris Prize: to encourage research on mal/female relations, promote policies of equality and contribute to the spread of knowledge on these subjects, the City of Paris, in partnership with the Institut Emilie du Châtelet, each year awards a prize for the best Parisian thesis on gender issues.

The Institut Emilie du Châtelet (IEC) was founded in 2006 on the initiative of the Conseil régional d'Île-de-France. Its creation was part of a number of initiatives aiming to combat France’s lag in studies on male-female relations and gender constraints, an area of studies that is booming in other countries due to its intrinsic academic and social interest.

Emilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) was a key player in the spread of Newtonian thought. In 1759 she commented on and translated the Principia mathematica of 1687 from Latin into French. A major contribution was her transposition of Newton’s Euclidean language into the analytical language codified by Leibniz.

Chancellery Prize

Pauline Barraud de Lagerie has been awarded the prestigious Richelieu Prize for literature and the humanities, Formal Chancellery Prize, for her doctoral thesis in sociology completed in 2010 at Sciences Po.

We offer her our warmest congratulations.

Pauline Barraud de Lagerie completed her thesis in 2010 on the subject, “Patrons of virtue. Moral entrepreneurs and instruments of measurement in the construction of social responsibility in business” under the direction of Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, director of research at CNRS attached to the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO).

Pauline is currently a postdoctoral student at the SENSE Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services) laboratory of Orange Labs.

Summary of thesis: This thesis is on the construction of the responsibility of Western businesses in relation to the fundamental rights of their suppliers in developing countries. Since the 1990s, an “anti-sweat shop” movement has been created that seeks to impose on businesses the obligation of assuring decent working conditions for the workers who produce their products. Adding to business’ legal obligations, this moral imperative has largely been driven by activist organisations that have generated commercial sanctions. This thesis examines the dynamics of this movement, which has placed increasing pressure on companies to become more responsible, and succeeded in obtaining promises from businesses in response to this criticism.

N.B. The Chancellery of Universities of Paris, guardian of the heritage of the former University of Paris, is a key player in the higher education sector in France. It makes a major contribution to the influence and renown of research by universities in the Ile-de-France through its support for the operations of university laboratories and the work of young researchers, no matter what their discipline. The Chancellery awards a number of distinctions and prizes financed partly through donations and legacies bequeathed to the former University of Paris. Each year the Chancellery awards several “Formal Chancellery prizes” recognising excellence and academic value for a doctoral thesis obtained during the previous year. Chancellery prizes are open to students residing in the Ile-de-France, in the fields of law and political science, economics and management, medicine and science, literature and humanities and pharmacy.

Trois jeunes docteur(e)s du Centre d’études européennes, Aurélien Evrard, Virginie Van Ingelgom et Claire Dupuy ont reçu des prix en science politique.

Aurélien Evrard a reçu le Prix JCPA-AFSP du meilleur texte comparatif “jeune chercheur” lors du XIe Congrès de l’Association française de science politique.

Virginie Van Ingelgom a obtenu le Prix de thèse Jean Blondel décerné par l’European Consortium for Political Research.

Claire Dupuy a reçu le Prix de thèse de la Fondation Mattei Dogan dans la catégorie politiques publiques.

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Olivier Accominotti a reçu le prix de thèse Alexander Gerschenkron attribué par The Economic History Association

Olivier Accominotti a reçu le prix de thèse Alexander Gerschenkron attribué par The Economic History Association lors de son dernier congrès qui s'est tenu à Boston du 8 au 11 septembre 2011. Il est le premier français à avoir obtenu cette distinction. Sa thèse, soutenue en juin 2010 à l'IEP de Paris (sous la direction de Marc Flandreau), est intitulée « Foreign Exchange Reserves, Financial Instability and Contagion: Three Essays on the Great Depression». Elle explore les mecanismes de propagation de la crise financière des années 1930 et apporte ainsi de nouveaux eclairages à la crise actuelle.

Olivier Accominotti avait auparavant obtenu pour ce travail le prix Gino Luzzatto attribué par l'European Historical Economics Society. 

Il est actuellement Lecturer (professeur) à la London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Una Bergmane, doctorante en Histoire à Sciences Po, remporte le Prix Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (*)