Pierre PÉNET - Graduate Institute of International and Development

PIERRE PÉNET
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Department of International History
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, 1202 Genève
[email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
August 2014--
Graduate Institute Geneva, Department of International History
Marie Curie MACROHIST Postdoctoral Fellow
EDUCATION
2008-2014
2006-2008
2002-2006
Northwestern University & SciencesPo Paris
Joint Ph.D. in Sociology (dissertation defended in November 2014)
-Dissertation Title: “Calculating and Governing Risk in Times of Crisis:
the Role of Credit Ratings in Regulatory Reasoning and Legal Change
(1930s - 2010s)”
-Committee: Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern University, primary
advisor in the U.S.), Wendy Espeland (Northwestern University),
Grégoire Mallard (Graduate Institute Geneva, rapporteur), Louis
Chauvel (SciencesPo Paris, primary advisor in France), Olivier Borraz
(SciencesPo Paris, président du jury), Michael Loriaux (Northwestern
University, rapporteur).
SciencesPo Paris
M.A. in Sociology
Political Sciences Institute of Rennes (IEP Rennes)
B.A. in Sociology
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2014
2014
AY 2013-14
2013
2013
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Robert F. Winch Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer,
Northwestern University
For: “Time of Crisis: An International Perspective on the Social and
Political Consequences of the 2008 Financial Collapse,”
undergraduate-level course taught at Northwestern University
Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies,
Dissertation Research Award, Northwestern University
Graduate Fellowship in Legal Studies, Center for Legal Studies,
Northwestern University
Robert F. Winch Prize for Best Student Paper Published, Northwestern
University
For: “Prize & Price: The Turner Prize as a Valuation Device in the
Contemporary Art Market,” published in Poetics.
MacArthur Summer Research Grant, Sociology Department, Northwestern
University
AY 2011-12
2010
2008-2011
2005
For: “From Risk Models to Loan Contracts: Austerity as the Calculation
of Austerity by Other Means,” published in Journal of Critical
Globalisation Studies.
Fulbright Scholar in Sociology, U.S. Department of State
Sociology Research Award, Sociology Department, Northwestern University
Doctoral Fellowship (“Allocation”) French Ministry of Research
Research Internship Grant, International Political Science Association
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Pierre Pénet and Grégoire Mallard. 2014. “From Risk Models to Loan Contracts: Austerity as
the Continuation of Calculation by Other Means.” Journal of Critical Globalisation
Studies, 7, 4-47.
Pierre Pénet and Kangsan Lee. 2014. “Prize & Price: The Turner Prize as a Valuation Device in
the Contemporary Art Market.” Poetics, 43, 149-171.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Pierre Pénet. 2015 [forthcoming]. “Rating Reports as Figuring Devices: How CRAs Build
Scenarios of the Future,” in Making Things Valuable, edited by Martin Kornberger,
Oxford University Press.
Pierre Pénet. 2015 [forthcoming]. “Prizing Contemporary Art,” in Center and Periphery in the
Field of Art, edited by Christophe Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, Valérie Knoll, and Ulf
Wuggenig, Sternberg Press.
Grégoire Mallard and Pierre Pénet. 2013. “Seeing Like a Credit Rating Agency: The
constitution of Financial Uncertainties during the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis.” Pp.
164-174 in Financial Crises: Identification, Forecasting and Effects on Transition
Economies, edited by Cooper Hawthorne. New York: Nova Publishers.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Pierre Pénet. 2015 [forthcoming]. “Credit rating,” signed entry for the Sage Encyclopedia of
Corporate Reputation, edited by Craig E. Carroll, Sage Publications.
Pierre Pénet. 2015 [forthcoming]. Compte rendu pour Sociologie du Travail de l’ouvrage :
Michael Grenfell and Frédéric Lebaron (Eds). 2014. Bourdieu and Data Analysis,
Oxford University Press.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS / UNDER REVIEW
“The colonization of U.S financial regulation by credit ratings during the Interwar period
(1926-1938)” in preparation for Administrative Science Quarterly
-to be presented at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (March) and the Max Planck
Institute (April/Cologne)
“Pollution rituals and the birth of financial regulation in the U.S. during the interwar period
(1918-1938)” in preparation for American Journal of Sociology
-to be presented at the Association française de sociologie (June/Paris) and SASE
(June/London)
« De l’utilité de l’ignorance dans la conduite de la politique monétaire en temps incertains : les
leçons de la crise de la dette souveraine européenne » in preparation for Genèses
-to be presented at the International Conference on Public Policy (July/Milan)
“Making public things with private instruments: modes of regulatory reliance on ratings (19302010s)”
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-to be presented at Colloque International Recherche & Régulation 2015 : « La théorie
de la régulation à l’épreuve des crises » (June/Paris)
« Le pouvoir de la notation du crédit en jugement : les leçons d’un procès historique » in
preparation for Le Monde Diplomatique, April issue.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011
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“Prizing Contemporary Art.”
-Workshop: “Art awards in contemporary art markets”
@ Sociology Department, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
“Regulatory interventions following the stock market crash of 1929: a
forbearance vs purification dilemma.”
-Seminar: “The Stock Exchange and the Economy,” Macroeconomics
and Financial History (MACROHIST) network
@ Graduate Institute Geneva
« Styles d'interventionnisme régulateur durant la Grande Dépression: le New
Deal entre indulgence et purification. »
-Séminaire interne Institut P. Bairoch
@ Université de Genève
“Anticipatory Knowledge as an Instrument of Market Governance: Examples
from the Recent Debt Crisis.”
-International History Department Colloquium
@ Graduate Institute Geneva
-Anthropology and Sociology Department Colloquium (with Grégoire
Mallard)
@ Graduate Institute Geneva
“Governing markets with legal fictions: Credit ratings and austerity
programs during the Greek sovereign debt crisis (2008-2010).”
-Doctoral Seminar
@ Max Planck-Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market
Societies, Paris.
“The Invention of Regulatory Reliance on Ratings: Calculative Governance
and Anti-Metrology Resistance during the Interwar Period.”
-Conference: “Law and Globalization in a Comparative Perspective: The
Interwar versus the Post-Cold War Periods”
@ SciencesPo Paris
“Seeing Like a Rating Agency: the Constitution of Financial Uncertainties
during the Greek Sovereign Crisis.”
-Conference: “Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance
Conference”
@ Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
“Inside the Shark Tank: The Turner Prize and the Valuation of
Contemporary British Artists.”
-Culture & Society Workshop
@ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
«Crises Financières, crises de l’information financière : Le cas de la notation
de la dette souveraine».
-Conférence : « Approches Pluridisciplinaires de l’Économie »
@ École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
“Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling: Recent
Transatlantic Developments in the Geometric School of Data Analysis.”
(With Brigitte le Roux and Frédéric Lebaron.)
-Statistical Workshop
@ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
2011
2010
2010
2008
2008
2008
2007
“Fields and Markets of Cultural Production: Geometric Data Analysis in the
French Tradition as a Tool for Representing Complex Data.”
@ Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
“The Blending of Taste: The Case of the French Field of Film Production.”
-European Sociological Association Midterm Conference
@ University of Surrey, England
-Conference: “30 years after ‘distinction’”
@ INHA, Paris
“Manufacturing Funeral Rituals in a Secular Age: Ethnographic Analysis in
Two Funeral Homes in France.”
-Ethnographic Workshop
@ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
«La valorisation des engagements associatifs sur le marché du travail: le cas
de la Junior Entreprise chez les étudiants d’HEC».
-Research Workshop Educ-Elites
@ SciencesPo Paris
“Cultural Capital and Comparative Approaches: Incommensurability or
Common Repertoires? The Case of France and the United States.”
-Social Stratification Seminary
@ SciencesPo Paris
“Middlebrow Art and Strategies of Distinction: The case of Cinema
Attendance in Great Britain.”
-Statistics in Social Science Seminary
@ SciencesPo Paris
«Les pratiques résidentielles et éducatives en banlieue parisiennes. Le cas de
Bondy et d’Épinay».
-Research Workshop Educ-Elites
@ SciencesPo Paris
TEACHING
AY 2012-14
Feb-Jun 2011
Feb-Jun 2009
“Times of Crisis: An International Perspective on the Social and Political
Consequences of the 2008 Financial Collapse”
-Northwestern
University,
Instructor,
International
Studies,
Undergraduate Level
“Introduction to Sociology”
-SciencesPo Paris, Instructor (with Étienne Ollion), Bachelor Level
“Socio-Political Cleavages in Europe”
-SciencesPo Paris, Teaching assistant, Bachelor Level
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
AY 2014-15
AY 2009-10
AY 2008-09
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Research assistant for Marc Flandreau for MACROHIST, a Marie Curie
Initial Training Action dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary expertise in
both macroeconomics and financial history
Principal organizer of statistical workshops for the diffusion of the French
school of geometric data analysis. Workshops held in University of Lüneburg
(Germany) and Northwestern University.
Research assistant for Educ-Elites, a SciencesPo-based research group
dedicated to the study of the reproduction of elites within the French
education system
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OUTREACH
Reviewer for the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Poetics, etc.
Member of the Fulbright Commission recruitment committee
Member of the SciencesPo international admission jury
Member of the American Sociological Association (Sections: Comparative and Historical
Sociology, Culture, and Economic Sociology), the Law and Society Association, and the
Economic History Association.
Recent interviews with Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS/Le Journal du Matin), and France Culture
(l’Atelier du Pouvoir) on various topics (credit rating agencies, the financial crisis,
Syriza, etc.)
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
English and French, fluent
Spanish (reading and conversation)
Italian, passive
Statistics and software: SPSS, STATA, SPAD
REFERENCES
Bruce Carruthers
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, Director of Buffett Center for International and
Comparative Studies, and Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208-1330
[email protected]
Wendy Espeland
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208-1330
[email protected]
Marc Flandreau
Professor of International Economics and International History
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, 1211 Genève
[email protected]
Galya Ruffer
Professor of Political Science, Director of International Studies
Department of International Studies
Northwestern University
2010 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
[email protected]
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