Juliette Rennes is a French sociology. 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).
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 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 on the sources and recompositions of anti-
egalitarianism since the end of the 19th century. In 2004, she did a research stay at McGill University in
Montreal, Canada where she worked with
Marc Angenot. In 2005, under the direction of Pierre Birnbaum, she defended her thesis entitled Le mérite et la nature. Une controverse républicaine, l'accès des femmes aux professions de prestige (1880–1940) 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, where she taught courses on discourse theory, media
Semiotics, and history of journalism. In 2009, she joined a Russian-speaking
research network on gender, taught a master's degree on gender at European Humanities University, in
Vilnius, 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))".
She is a statutory member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at EHESS.
Selected works
Books
Articles
