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| École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) | |
|---|---|
| Name | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales |
| Native name | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales |
| Established | 1947 |
| Type | Public |
| City | Paris |
| Country | France |
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) is a French grande école and research institution founded in 1947, specializing in the social sciences and humanities. It developed from prewar and wartime French intellectual networks and has been influential in shaping methods and debates associated with figures from the Annales School to poststructuralist and postcolonial thought. The institution hosts interdisciplinary research linking historical, anthropological, sociological, economic, and philosophical traditions centered in Paris and beyond.
The institution emerged in the aftermath of World War II through initiatives associated with Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, and administrators linked to the École pratique des hautes études, Collège de France, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and ministries of the Fourth Republic (France), with intellectual currents flowing from the Annales School, École française de sociologie, and networks of émigré scholars including Claude Lévi-Strauss and Georges Dumézil. In the 1950s and 1960s EHESS absorbed seminar traditions connected to Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, and Fernand Braudel while institutions such as Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris Nanterre, and École normale supérieure (Paris) intersected with its programs. Student mobilizations during the May 1968 events in France and intellectual debates involving Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Henri Lefebvre, and Raymond Aron influenced governance reforms in the 1970s and 1980s alongside collaborations with UNESCO, OECD, and European research infrastructures. Later decades saw engagement with scholars such as Quentin Skinner, Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak through visiting professorships and colloquia.
EHESS operates under French public law with oversight shared by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (France), contracts with CNRS, and statutory bodies modeled on French higher education governance like the Conseil d'administration (France) and academic councils resembling those at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Collège de France. Leadership has included directors and presidents who often hold dual positions at institutions such as École normale supérieure (Paris), Centre national du livre, and international bodies including American Council of Learned Societies and British Academy. Committees draw faculty from research units affiliated with Institut national d'études démographiques (INED), Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), and partner laboratories within the European Research Area.
EHESS offers doctoral, postdoctoral, and specialized master's programs administered through doctoral schools comparable to those at Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), Sorbonne Université, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with degree supervision by professors who hold chairs linked to research institutes such as the Centre de recherches historiques, Centre d'études africaines, Centre d'études nordiques, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, CERFAN, and units co-funded by CNRS and Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE). Curricula span topics treated in seminars by scholars referencing works like Les Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, publications from Presses universitaires de France, and collaborative series with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Doctoral supervision often involves external examiners from Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics, University of Chicago, and Humboldt University of Berlin.
Faculty and alumni networks include influential figures such as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger Chartier, Natalie Zemon Davis, Cornelius Castoriadis, Paul Veyne, Monique Canto-Sperber, Bruno Latour, Serge Gruzinski, Françoise Héritier, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Dominique Schnapper, Alain Touraine, Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Le Goff, Georges Perec, Jacques Rancière, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Pierre Nora, Seymour Papert, François Furet, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Winock, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Erik Orsenna, Isabelle Stengers, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Etienne Balibar, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Amitav Ghosh, Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Saskia Sassen, Arjun Appadurai, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Aleida Assmann, Roger Chartier, and Stefano Harney.
The institution's central sites are distributed across Paris with historic facilities near Rue Saint-Jacques, École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm), and research premises adjacent to Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collège de France, and laboratories in the Quartier Latin. Additional centers and field stations maintain presences in regions served by Institut français, regional universities such as Université de Toulouse, Université de Provence, and international outposts linked to Maison de l'Asie and the Maison Française d'Oxford. Library collections collaborate with holdings at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, and archives connected to Institut d'histoire du temps présent.
EHESS is widely regarded in humanities and social sciences rankings alongside École normale supérieure (Paris), Collège de France, Institut d'études politiques de Paris, and research consortia like Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), often evaluated by comparison with departments at Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and Stanford University. Reputation metrics from scholarly surveys and citation indices reference publications in journals such as Les Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, and international periodicals like American Historical Review and Econometrica for interdisciplinary impact. Rankings emphasize strength in history, anthropology, sociology, and area studies with recognition in awards including the CNRS Silver Medal and prizes administered by Académie française and British Academy fellows.
The school maintains partnerships with institutions including Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics, University of Toronto, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore, École normale supérieure de Lyon, Université Paris Cité, Sciences Po, Max Planck Society, British Academy, American Council of Learned Societies, UNESCO, and networks such as the European University Association and Union for the Mediterranean. Collaborative programs include joint doctoral supervision, Erasmus agreements with Universidad Complutense de Madrid, research projects funded by European Research Council, and thematic partnerships for fieldwork in regions covered by Institut français d’Afrique noire (IFAN), Centre for Chinese Studies, and area centers for Latin American, African, and Asian studies.
Category:Universities and colleges in Paris