Education and Career path

EDUCATION AND CAREER

2011: Director of the branch of the Universidad Andrés Bello's department of Sociology in Viña del Mar.

June 08-10: Post-doctoral fellow of the Doctoral research program (Graduiertenkolleg) “Friends, Patrons, Followers” sponsored by the German Research Agency (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

2007: PhD awarded in Sociology with the highest distinction (mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury), Ecole des Hautes Etudes enSciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris).
Dissertation title: “Political mobilisations, dual gouvernementalité and ethnic construction. A sociology of the Turkish nationalism: Western Thrace ‘Turks’ as a case study (Greece, Germany, Turkey)” (in French). Supervisor: Pr. Hamit Bozarslan.

2002-05 : Member of the Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (Istanbul).

2001: Master in Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Graduated with a distinction for my dissertation.

2000: Maîtrise (4th year degree) in Political Science, Institut d’Études Politiques de Rennes. Graduated with a distinction for my dissertation.

 

RESEARCH TEAMS

Associate researcher of the Centre Émile-Durkheim, Université de Bordeaux.

Coordinator of the Grupo de Estudios Sobre Chile (GRESCH) en Santiago.

Member of a three-year research project (2008-11) sponsored by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche on “State government and administration in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire since the 19th century”. Project coordinator: Élise Massicard, EHESS.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Since 2011: Senior Lecturer in the Universidad Andrés Bello en Viña del Mar, Chile. Teacher of "Fundamentos de la Sociología" and "Teoría sociológica clásica" (1st year degree students).

2009-10: Workshop “Writing and Methodologies in the Humanities and Social Sciences” (in English), Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg. Workshop program 2009-10: Workshop Methodology Bourbouhakis-Hersant.pdf

Sept. 05 – Sept. 07: Junior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology, Institut d’Études Politiques of Bordeaux, France.
Teacher of ‘Political Studies’ (1st year degree students): Political theory, constitutional law, French and foreign political systems (United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Lebanon, Turkey).
Teacher of ‘Political Sociology’ (3rd year degree students): Sociology and theories of nationalism, state building, social movements, voting, political elites.

 

GRANTS AND DISTINCTIONS

2012-2013: Grant from the Universidad Andrés Bello (Jorge Millas Fund).

2008: Dissertation pre-selected for the thesis prices of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and of the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris.

2007: Monique Fouet Fellowship (French Association of Female Graduates).

2002 – 2005: Grant from the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA, Istanbul).

2001 and 2003: Two grants from the Centre Marc-Bloch (French Research Institute in Berlin) for one-month investigations in Germany.

Download my CV in English, French or Spanish: 

CV Hersant English2010.pdf, CV HERSANT French.pdf; CV_HERSANT_2011_ES.pdf