The purpose of the thesis Prize of PSL University is to reward and promote the best doctoral work in the main Humanities and Social Sciences fields:

  • Art, Aesthetics, Literature
  • Law, economics, management
  • Humanities
  • Social Sciences

In addition to these four thematic prizes, the juries award a fifth prize for the best interdisciplinary dissertation.

Find the winners below:

Social Sciences Award

  • Elsa FAVIER, Enarques et femmes. Le genre dans la haute fonction publique. EHESS. Direction : Laure Bereni.

Law, Economics, Management Award

  • Anasuya RAJ, Essais en Economie Publique et en Economie Politique. Ecole Polytechnique. Codirection : Pierre Boyer et Pierre Picard.

Arts, Aesthetics, Literature Award

  • Olivier VAYRON, La Galerie de paléontologie, d’anatomie comparée et d’anthropologie du Jardin des Plantes de Paris. Le bilan artistique d’un siècle d’histoire au Muséum. Sorbonne Université. Direction : Barthélémy Jobert.

Humanities Award

  • Alessia ZUBANI, Les machines du pouvoir : technique et politique entre l’Iran sassanide et le califat abbaside. Università di Bologna ; EPHE – PSL. Codirection : Antonio Panaino et Philip Huyse.

Best cross-disciplinary work

  • Ines PACTAT, L’activité verrière en France du VIIIe au XIe siècle. Résilience et mutations d’une production artisanale. Université Bourgogne Franche – Comté. Codirection : Philippe Barral et Daniel Foy.

Each winner will receive a prize worth € 5,000, consisting of a sum of € 3,000 and a funding of € 2,000 for a research stay, if the health situation makes it possible. The winners will also give three seminars in three partner institutions of PSL.

A virtual awards ceremony will be held on July 8, 2021 (6 p.m. to 8 p.m.). It will be broadcast live on PSL’s YouTube channel.

During this ceremony the winning works will be presented and a conference on the theme “Distance et engagement : un dilemme à repenser pour les sciences humaines et sociales” will be given by François Héran, professor at the Collège de France and president of the 2021 edition of the SHS thesis prize.

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