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Research
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques/ Sciences Po
Sciences Po has a strong international orientation: about one third of its students (including undergraduate and graduate students) are international students, and it is mandatory for undergraduate students to study abroad as part of their course of study
(Sources: Katherine Newman and Katrin Križ’ site visit; Sciences Po: Excellence, Innovation, Diversity, and Bruno Palier’s presentation on Sciences Po at Harvard Inequality Summer Institute, June 19, 2004).
Researchers at Sciences Po
Balme, Richard
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political Science
Research: values; elections; political theory
Bastard, Benoît
Affiliation: CSO
Discipline: Sociology
Research: families and their interactions with legal systems; family health; post-divorce families
Bergeron, Henri
Affiliation: CSO
Discipline: Sociology
Research: health, drugs, and the welfare system
Borraz, Olivier
Affiliation: CSO
Discipline: Sociology
Research: urban governance; health; public policy
Boy, Daniel
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political Science
Research: elections; values; class systems; ecology and environment
Chauvel, Louis
Affiliation: OSC
Discipline: Sociology
Research: cohorts and social classes; morphology of inequality in France and the U.S.; spatial differentiation; lifestyles, and social stratification
Chenu, Alain
Affiliation: OSC
Discipline: Sociology
Research: social stratification with regard to time-use; time-use surveys; social class and time spent at work; non-industrial working class, study of celebrity: investigates 2,900 covers of “Paris Match” and focuses on the way celebrity has changed from 1950’s to today.
Cornilleau, Gérard
Affiliation: OFCE
Discipline: Economist
Research: retirement systems
Decheux Jean-Hugues
Affiliation: OSC
Research: qualitative and quantitative study of family structure and adult life; parents and adult children; brothers and sisters in adult life; gifts and exchange of services within kinship groups; frequency of family meetings and memory; place of the nuclear family
Grunberg, Gérard
Affiliation: CEVIPOF, Science Po’s research director
Discipline: Political Science
Research: elections; values
Hugounenq, Réjane
Affiliation: OFCE
Discipline: Economics
Research: economics of poverty; social protection financing
Kastoryano, Riva
Affiliation: CERI
Discipline: Sociology
Research: immigration; race and ethnicity in France
Lagrange Hugues
Affiliation: OSC
Research: deviance and crime; causes of crime; socialization process; how do poor families help children avoid delinquency? School experience and ethnicity
Laurent, Eloi
Affiliation: OFCE
Discipline: Economics
Research: social policies of poverty; European Union
Le Cacheux, Jacques
Affiliation: OFCE
Discipline: Economics
Research: economics of inequality; European Union
Le Galès, Patrick
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political Science
Research: urban sociology; new political economics, France and U.K.
Le Garrec, Gilles
Affiliation: OFCE
Discipline: Economics
Research: education; generations; economic growth
Mayer, Nonna
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political Science
Research: xenophia and the extreme right; social class
Musselin, Christine
Affiliation: CSO
Discipline: Sociology
Research: organization of higher education systems; public action; ecology and environment
Muxel, Anne
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political Science
Research: youth and political participation
Oberti, Marco
Affiliation: OSC
Discipline: Sociology
Research: social and spatial segregation/inequality in Italy and France
Palier, Bruno
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political Science
Research: social protection in Europe
Périvier, Hélène
Affiliation: OFCE
Discipline: Economics
Research: family policies and women’s employment in France
Préteceille, Edmond
Affiliation: OSC
Discipline: Sociology
Research: urban spatial segregation in Berlin, London, Paris and Tokyo and Brazil; quantitative and qualitative study of interaction between social groups in Paris; class; race, ethnicity and segregation; segregation in U.S. cities; social cohesion in 11 European countries
Rey, Henri
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political Science
Research: urban inequalities and social exclusion; parties; social movements, Socialism; political attitudes; militants
Stancanelli, Elena
Affiliation: OFCE
Discipline: Economics
Research: labor economics; trajectories of family life; international comparisons; econometrics
Storper, Michael
Affiliation: CSO
Discipline: Sociology
Research: global, regional and local aspects of political economies
Tiberj, Vincent
Affiliation: CEVIPOF
Discipline: Political ScienceResearch: political participation in France and the U.S.; sociology of social inequality; sociology of elites
Van Zanten, Agnès
Affiliation: OSC
Discipline: Sociology Research: school system and inequalities; teachers and parents’ relation in the production of segregation and protection of middle classes in production of selective schools; London-Paris comparisons
Whitol de Wenden, Catherine
Affiliation: CERI
Discipline: Political Science
Research: Immigration; citizenship; refugees
Library access
Inequality Fellows can get library access only with a Sciences Po student id. To get a student id, Fellows should contact and meet with Sebastien Linden (sebastien.linden@sciences-po.fr), secrétaire général of the Ecole Doctorale, upon arrival. Sebastien will show them where they can get the student card at the Ecole Doctorale. Fellows will need proof of health insurance and a photo to receive a student id.
Research seminars
Inequality Fellows can join the Ecole Doctorale for French lessons and seminars. At Sciences Po, all students participate in seminars and research activities. Research seminars are co-organized by students and professors, who form research groups on topics of interest to them. They work on a problem for one to two years and then organize a conference. These activities are open to everyone. However, if Fellows visit Sciences Po in May, their integration into seminars might be more difficult than if they came earlier in the year.
There are numerous associations, lectures and events at Sciences Po. Sciences Po publishes a newsletter publicizing events every Friday, and Fellows can subscribe to the Sciences Po listserve.
Inequality Fellows could give one or two lectures in an ongoing course at the end of the term. They could teach in English, which is accepted and encouraged.
Practical information
Accommodation
Inequality Fellows who are planning on staying in Paris over the summer (June through September) can find accommodation at the Cité Universitaire Internationale (see photo tour), metro stop Cité. The Collège Franco-Britannique is one of the newly renovated residence halls there. The Collège offers single rooms with Internet access and en-suite bathroom and shower, common kitchens, a computer room with Internet access, a common room and a laundry room.
Fellows are advised to apply for a room by April by sending an email to its Director, Frederic Ogée, at ogee@paris7.jusieu.fr or cfb@cfb-ciup.com.fr. Among other newly renovated residence halls are the Maison du Cambodge, and the Maison des Provinces de France. The Cité also has an office called BACE offering help to guest researchers looking for housing in Paris.
Health insurance
The US State Department provides extensive information on health insurance for Americans traveling abroad.
Office space and computer access
Inequality Fellows can have access to the computer lab at the Centre Americain. Fellows need to consult with Pierre Bollinger at pierre.bollinger@sciences-po.fr, chargé de mission at the American Center, for space there.
Timing
The best time to do a research residency at Sciences Po is between early October and early February, and the end of February to mid-June, when classes for undergraduate and masters programs end. The classes for doctoral programs run from November until mid-May. Most researchers will be in Paris until the national holiday on July 14.
Transportation
See the “Guide de Bienvenue” for information on transportation in Paris. In 2003, a monthly pass for Paris cost 46.05 euros. Also visit the RATP website for information on transportation in Paris, and the website of SNCF for information on train travel in France. For a list of low-cost airlines operating in Europe, visit http://www.discountairfares.com/lcosteur.htm. To print out a location on a map, go to http://www.mappy.com./
Visa information
U.S. citizens do not need a visa if they stay in France as tourists for less than 90 days. For the latest visa-related information, see the US State Department’s website.
Ruth Grosrichard, Secrétaire Générale à la Direction des Affaires
Internationales et des Echanges at Sciences Po, strongly recommended that Inequality Fellows apply for a student visa with the French Consulate in Boston. For a student visa, Fellows need to get a letter d’admission from Sebastien Linden, (sebastien.linden@sciences-po.fr), Secrétaire Général of the Ecole Doctorale. They will need to apply for a student visa with that admission letter at the Consulate and will then get a carte d’étudiant (student id) from Sebastien Linden as well as access to the library.
Inequality Fellows who are planning on staying in France for more than three months will need to apply for a residency permit (carte de séjour). If students initially stay for two months and then decide that they want to stay longer than three months once they are in France, they will have to leave France to apply for a visa.
Within three weeks upon arrival, students will need to get a carte de séjour at the local prefecture de police. (Only if they arrive in September to mid-October and in February can they get the carte de séjour through the International Student Office.) The prefecture de police is located in the 15th arrondissement, 13, rue Miollis, metro Cambronne, phone: 800 95 95 75. Among other documents, students will need copies of their passport, their birth certificate, translated by a certified translator approved by the French Consulate in Boston, their entry visa (sticker in passport), and proof of accommodation (“justicatif de domicile”), for instance from the Cité Internationale, if they stay there.
(Source: Katrin Križ' site visit 2003).
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