The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''
grande école'' and ''
grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards
Master
Master or masters may refer to:
Ranks or titles
*Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans
*Grandmaster (chess), National Master, ...
and
PhD degrees alone and conjointly with the grandes écoles ''
École Normale Supérieure'', ''
École Polytechnique'', and ''
École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college ...
.''
Originally a department of the École pratique des hautes études, created in 1868 with the purpose of training academic researchers, the EHESS became an independent institution in 1975. Today its research covers
social sciences,
humanities, and
applied mathematics
Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical ...
. Degrees and research in economics and finance are awarded through the
Paris School of Economics.
The EHESS, in common with other grandes écoles, is a small school with very strict entry criteria, and admits students through a rigorous selection process based on applicants' research projects. Scholars in training are subsequently free to choose their own
curriculum
In education, a curriculum (; : curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view ...
amongst the School's fields of research. The ''école'' has a small student-faculty ratio; 830 researchers for 3,000 students (27.6%).
Most of the School's faculty belong to other institutions, mostly within the
French National Centre for Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
and schools affiliated with
PSL University
Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL University or simply PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a collegiate university with 11 constitue ...
. The School is notable for its work connected to amongst others sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu, philosopher
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed th ...
, as well as economist
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (; born 7 May 1971) is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the In ...
.
History
École pratique des hautes études
Originally part of the
École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college ...
(EPHE) as its ''VI Section: Sciences économiques et sociales'', the EHESS gained autonomy as an independent higher education institution on 23 January 1975. The creation of a dedicated branch for social science research within the EPHE was catalyzed by the ''
Annales
Annals are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year. The equivalent word in Latin and French is ''annales'', which is used untranslated in English in various contexts.
List of works with titles contai ...
'' historical school and was supported by several academic initiatives of the
Rockefeller Foundation, dating to the 1920s. After WWII, the Rockefeller Foundation invested more funds in French institutions, seeking to encourage non-Marxist sociological studies.
The VIth section was created in 1947, and
Lucien Febvre
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the ''Encyclopédie française'' together wit ...
took its head. Soon after its creation (1947), the ''VI Section'', later EHESS, became one of the most influential shapers of contemporary
historiography,
area studies
Area studies (also known as regional studies) are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/ federal, or cultural regions. The term exists primarily as a general description for what are, ...
and
social sciences methodology, thanks to the contribution of eminent scholars such as
Fernand Braudel,
Jacques Le Goff
Jacques Le Goff (1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries.
Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term ...
and
François Furet
François Furet (; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University ...
. F. Braudel succeeded L. Febvre in 1956. He concentrated the various study groups at the well-known building on
boulevard Raspail
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Its orientation is north–south, and joins boulevard Saint-Germain with place Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing 7th, 6th and 14th arrondissements. The boulevard intersects major roa ...
(area of
allée Claude-Cahun-Marcel-Moore
In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its ...
), in part by financing from the
Ford Foundation.
Independent institution
Today, the EHESS is one of France's ''Grands établissements''. It functions as a
research,
teaching
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, and degree-granting institution. It offers advanced students high-level programs intended to lead to research careers. Students are admitted on the relevance of their research project and undertake at the EHESS
master programs and
doctoral studies
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. The main areas of specialization include:
history,
literary theory,
linguistics,
philosophy,
philology,
sociology,
anthropology
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,
economics,
cognitive science,
demographics
Demography () is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.
Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as ed ...
,
geography,
archaeology
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,
psychology,
law
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, and
mathematics. The institution's focus is on
interdisciplinary research within these fields. The EHESS has more than 40 research centers (among which are several joint research units with the
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
) and 22 doctoral programs, 13 of which are in partnership with other French
Universities and ''
Grandes écoles''.
PSL Research University
The school is a constituent college of the federal
PSL Research University
Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL University or simply PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a collegiate university with 11 constitue ...
. Other institutions include the
College de France
A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering ...
, the
École Normale Supérieure, the
École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college ...
,
Chimie ParisTech
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,
ESPCI ParisTech, the
École des mines
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, S ...
, and
Paris Dauphine University
Paris Dauphine University - PSL (french: Université Paris-Dauphine, also known as Paris Dauphine - PSL or Dauphine - PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It is one of the 13 universities formed by the division of the anci ...
.
Research
History
Influence from the Annales School
Lucien Febvre
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the ''Encyclopédie française'' together wit ...
and
Fernand Braudel were members of the
École des Annales, the dominant school of historical analysis in France during the
interwar period. However, this school of thought was contested by the growing importance of the social sciences and the beginning of
structuralism. Under pressure from
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anth ...
, in particular, they integrated new contributions from the fields of
sociology and
ethnography to event-based historical analysis, a concept put forward by the Annales school, to advocate for the concept of "a nearly imperceptible passage of history". They were reproached, along with the structuralists, for ignoring
politics and the individual's influence over his fate during a period in which the colonial wars of liberation were taking place.
The work of
Braudel
Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...
,
Le Roy Ladurie and other historians working under their influence greatly affected the research and official teaching of history in France beginning in the 1960s. The work of
Jean-Marie Pesez renewed interest in the issue of methodology in medieval archeology and created the idea of "material culture".
François Hartog
François Hartog (born in 1946) is a French historian. He is noted for his "regimes of historicity" theory as well as his analyses of presentism and the contemporary experience of time. Hartog is also an academic and author of several works inclu ...
, who serves as the director of the school's ancient and modern
historiography department, is also noted for proposing that the problems of modern time schema are not entirely caused by an imperialist past. He is also known for challenging the
Eurocentric reflection of history and the present.
New History
During the 1970s, EHESS became the center of
New History under the influence of
Jacques Le Goff
Jacques Le Goff (1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries.
Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term ...
and
Pierre Nora. During this period, a generation of ethnologists working under the ideas of
Georges Balandier
Georges Balandier (21 December 1920 – 5 October 2016) was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne ( ...
and
Marc Augé
Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist.
In an essay and book of the same title, ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to spa ...
were critical of the French colonial tradition and applied modern sociological concepts to third world countries.
New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship
In 2019, held the
New Polish School of Holocaust Scholarship conference. The conference was disrupted by Polish nationalists. EHESS President,
Christophe Prochasson, said he could not recall such a violent disturbance at any scientific conference. Minister
Frédérique Vidal
Frédérique Vidal (born 9 May 1964) is a Monegasque-born French-based biochemist, academic administrator, and politician who served as Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in the government of Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe a ...
condemned Polish authorities.
Behr Valentin, Entre histoire et propagande. Les contributions de l’Institut polonais de la mémoire nationale à la mise en récit de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Allemagne d'aujourd'hui
Sociology
Pierre Bourdieu, Luc Boltanski
Luc Boltanski (born 4 January 1940) is a French sociologist, Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, and founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale, known as the leading figure in the new "pragmati ...
, Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine (; born 3 August 1925) is a French sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the ''Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux''. Touraine was an important figure in ...
, Jean-Claude Passeron
Jean-Claude Passeron (born 26 November 1930) is a French sociologist and leader of social science studies. As part of a mixed interdisciplinary team involving sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, he led the magazine ''Enquêtes''.
Bio ...
have all been associated with EHESS.
Economics
EHESS has always been a central place for economic debate in Europe. In France this debate is also enabled by the proximity of the researchers in Paris with national economic institutions: In this sense EHESS's advisors who have been drawn from economic professors have enjoyed a large media audience (one notable example was Jean Fourastié). The diversity of viewpoints has been a priority, and liberal and Marxist economists have had the chance to debate in EHESS. Since the 1970s and 1980s EHESS has focused on quantitative economics, with classes led by well-known professors such as Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Jean-Jacques Laffont, François Bourguignon and Roger Guesnerie. They initiated not only the Paris School of Economics but the Toulouse School of Economics and Grequam (Aix-Marseille).
Organisation
Recruitment
More than 50% of the student body comes from countries other than France.
Domestic and foreign networks
Affiliations
The school is a founding member of the Paris School of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE; french: École d'économie de Toulouse) is a school of economics, affiliated with Toulouse 1 Capitole University, a constituent college of the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. It is located in t ...
, and Aix-Marseille School of Economics, the three French leading centers in Quantitative Economics. Since 2014 it is an associated member of the Paris Research University (PSL).
International partnerships
EHESS has exchange programs with universities such as Oxford and Cambridge
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in the United Kingdom; Columbia, Yale
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, University of California, and Michigan State
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in the United States; Heidelberg in Germany; Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan; Peking in China; the European University Institute in Florence, etc. Also, it has many relations and exchange programs with universities in Asia and the Middle-East; it holds research centers on Asian Studies and Islamic Studies.
Notable alumni
* Manola Antonioli
* Roberto Beneduce
* Nicole Brenez
* Françoise Briand
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* Manuel Carvalheiro
* Antonio Casilli
* Arachu Castro
* Yves Censi
* Philippe Corcuff
* Julien Coupat Julien Coupat (born June 4, 1974 in Bordeaux) is a French political activist. As one of the Tarnac Nine, he was arrested on November 11, 2008 and accused of terrorism in connection with a plot to sabotage French train lines. Coupat spent over six ...
* Louis Chauvel
* Louis Dumont
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Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then dire ...
* Pascal Chaigneau
* Jacques Dassié
* Robert Delort
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* Božidar Đelić
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* Aïssa Dermouche
* Albert Doja Albert Doja is an Albanian-born French University Professor ( Professeur des Universités) in Anthropology.
He obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology in 1993 from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) Paris and his Habilit ...
* Esther Duflo
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* Serge Dufoulon
* Moisés Espírito Santo
* Safi Faye
* Caroline Fourest
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* Dario Gamboni
* Susan George
* Nathalie Heinich
* Béatrice Hibou
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* Jean Hyppolite
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* Bruno Jaffré
* Christian Geffray
* Michel Lauwers
* Marc Lazar
* José Manuel López López
* Frédéric Lordon
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He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and h ...
* Édouard Louis
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Biography
Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in northern France, which is the setting of his first novel, the autob ...
* Caterina Magni
* Sabrina Malek
* Alain Marleix
* Frédéric Martel
* Walter Mignolo
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* Laure Murat
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Laure Murat is the daughter of the writer and film producer Napoléon Murat and historian Inès d'Albe ...
* Sébastien Nadot
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* Guadalupe Nettel
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* Christine Niederberger Betton
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* Laurent Nunez
* Hector Obalk
* Thomas Pavel Thomas Pavel (born Toma Pavel, April 4, 1941 in Bucharest, Romania) is a literary theorist, critic, and novelist currently teaching at the University of Chicago.
Biography
Thomas Pavel received an MA in Linguistics from the University of Buchare ...
* Thomas Piketty
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* Guy Poitevin
* Ignacio Ramonet
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* Joseph Gaï Ramaka
* Bernard Salanié
* Cheick Oumar Sissoko
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Biography
As a student in Paris, Cheick Oumar Sissoko obtained a DEA in African History and Sociology and a diploma in History and Cinema from the Ecole des ...
* Bernard Stiegler
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* Jean-Louis Swiners
* David Thesmar
* Alain Touraine
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* Laurent Turcot
* Frédéric Vandenberghe
* Olivier Weber
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Jean Berlie (also named Jean A. Berlie, Johan Berlie, Komlan in African Ewe, or 韓林, Hanlin in Chinese) is a French socio-anthropologist specialising in Asia and China.
Background
Berlie was born in Misahohé, near Kpalimé, Togo in 1936, f ...
Notable faculty
Past and present faculty (including EPHE's VI Section):
*
* Sylviane Agacinski
Sylviane Agacinski-Jospin (born 4 May 1945) is a French philosopher, feminist, author, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and wife of Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France. Her theoretical articulati ...
* Marc Augé
Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist.
In an essay and book of the same title, ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to spa ...
* Roland Barthes
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* Claude Berge
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Claude Berge's parents were André Berge and Geneviè ...
* Augustin Berque
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* Pierre Bourdieu
* François Bourguignon
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*
* Fernand Braudel
* Claude Calame
* Fernando Henrique Cardoso
* Manuel Castells
* Cornelius Castoriadis
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* Roger Chartier
* Annie Cohen-Solal
* Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed th ...
* Philippe Descola
* Oswald Ducrot
* Louis Dumont
Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist.
Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then dire ...
* Nicolas Ellison
*
* Lucien Febvre
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the ''Encyclopédie française'' together wit ...
* Marc Ferro
Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian.
Life and career
Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema.
His Ukrai ...
* David Feuerwerker
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* Maribel Fierro
Dr. María Isabel Fierro Bello (born 1956) is a researcher on Middle Eastern studies at the Spanish National Research Council's humanities branch in Madrid, Spain.[François Furet
François Furet (; 27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University ...]
* Marcel Gauchet
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* Maurice Godelier
* Nilüfer Göle
* Algirdas Julien Greimas
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* Roger Guesnerie
* Pierre Hadot
* Bernard Harcourt
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He is a p ...
* Stanley Hoffmann
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* Emma Rothschild
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See also
* École libre des hautes études
* The New School for Social Research
* Paris Universitas
* :School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences alumni
* :School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences faculty
References
External links
L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - official site
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EHESS's history
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List of EHESS research centers
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