École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
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Name	École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Established	1947
Type	Public research institution
City	Paris
Country	France

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales is a French graduate-level research institution founded in 1947 that specializes in social sciences and humanities, attracting scholars linked to Collège de France, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, and Institut national d'études démographiques. The institution fostered networks with figures associated with École pratique des hautes études, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Sorbonne University, and Centre Pompidou.

History

The founding followed initiatives by scholars connected to Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Annales School, and administrators from Ministry of National Education (France), with early ties to University of Strasbourg, Université de Lyon, École des Chartes, and Institut français. In the 1950s and 1960s the institution expanded alongside research movements involving Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and collaborations with Harvard University, University of Chicago, London School of Economics, and Columbia University. During the 1970s and 1980s exchanges linked scholars to Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, Raymond Aron, and partnerships with Max Planck Society, German Historical Institute, Italian School of Social Sciences, and Università di Bologna. Post-1990 developments show institutional links to European Research Council, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, UNESCO, World Bank, and projects with Princeton University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Organisation and Governance

Governance structures mirror models seen at Collège de France, Université PSL, Conseil d'État (France), and involve committees similar to those at CNRS, Institut Pasteur, École Polytechnique, and Sciences Po. Administrative leadership has historically interacted with figures from Ministry of Higher Education and Research (France), Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Conseil scientifique, Conseil d'administration (France), and oversight comparable to Cour des comptes. Statutory professors have come from backgrounds associated with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (historical link forbidden), Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Université de Provence, and international fellows affiliated with Max Weber Centre, Institute for Advanced Study, Kantor Center, and Radcliffe Institute.

Academic Programs and Research Units

Program offerings span doctoral and postdoctoral tracks analogous to those at EHESS-affiliated units forbidden as direct variants, emphasizing interdisciplinary research linked to projects under ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), European Commission Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Jean Monnet Programme, and collaborative labs with Centre National du Livre, Institut national d'études démographiques, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, and Institut Curie. Research units include teams comparable to those at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Laboratoire d'Économie et de Sociologie du Travail, and joint initiatives with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (forbidden variant) collaborators at Université de Genève, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Universidade de São Paulo, and University of Tokyo. Doctoral supervision has been overseen in traditions linked to habilitation à diriger des recherches, with curricula intersecting archival resources from Archives nationales (France), museum partnerships with Musée de l'Homme, and publication outlets connected to Gallimard, Editions du Seuil, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.

Notable Faculty and Alumni

Faculty and alumni networks include scholars associated with Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Fernand Braudel, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Bruno Latour, Paul Veyne, Georges Duby, Alain Touraine, Erving Goffman, Judith Butler, Cornelius Castoriadis, Raymond Williams, Maurice Halbwachs, Louis Althusser, E.P. Thompson, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Le Goff, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, Siegfried Kracauer, Natalie Zemon Davis, Svetlana Alexievich, Talal Asad, Noël Valis, Michael Taussig, Sociétés savantes (example linked entities), Claude Simon, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Amitav Ghosh, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Iris Murdoch, Edward Said, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Ricoeur, Isaiah Berlin, Georges Canguilhem, Norbert Elias, Eric Hobsbawm, Tony Judt, Pierre Nora, John Rawls, Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Saskia Sassen, Walter Benjamin.

Campus and Facilities

Main facilities occupy sites in Paris with proximity to Panthéon, Jardin du Luxembourg, Rue Saint-Jacques, and collaborative spaces near Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations, Musée du Louvre, Institut du Monde Arabe, and Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. Research infrastructure includes libraries and archives comparable to Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and technical centers modeled on Institut de France, Observatoire de Paris, and laboratories co-located with CNRS and INSERM units. Student and faculty life engages with cultural venues such as Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Garnier, Maison de la Mutualité, and international program offices linked to Campus France, Erasmus Programme, and Fulbright Program.

Category:Universities and colleges in Paris