1 Department of Sociology 125 Wallace Hall Princeton University

Department of Sociology
125 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
[email protected]
Angèle Christin
Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT POSITION
The New School for Social Research, Department of Sociology
Mellon Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow
EDUCATION
Princeton University / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology (expected July 2014)
Dissertation Title: “Clicks or Pulitzers? Web Journalists and Their Work in the United States
and France”
Dissertation Committee: Kim Lane Scheppele and Florence Weber (co-chairs), Viviana Zelizer,
Paul DiMaggio
Princeton University
M.A., Sociology (2010) (with distinction)
Exams: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Law.
Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) (2003-2008)
Ecole Normale Supérieure / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
M.A., Social Sciences (2006) (with distinction)
Université Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne (Paris)
B.A., Economics and Sociology (2004) (with distinction)
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014:
Edward Shils – James Coleman Memorial Award for Best Student Paper, Theory
Section of the American Sociological Association
Award for Best Student Paper, Communication and Information Technologies Section
of the American Sociological Association
2013-2014:
Josephine DeKarman Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2012-2013:
Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship (Princeton Graduate School Honorific Fellowship),
awarded annually to four graduate students at Princeton for academic excellence.
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2011-2012:
Research grant from the Ministère de la Culture (Paris). Principal investigator on the
project: “Arts participation in the United States and France, 1981-2008.”
2009-2010:
Mellon Fellowship (Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University).
2008-2009:
Center for Human Values merit prize (Princeton University).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
BOOKS
Angèle Christin, Etienne Ollion. 2012. Contemporary Sociology in the United States [La Sociologie Aujourd’hui
aux Etats-Unis]. Paris, La Découverte.
(Reviewed in Alternatives Economiques, Sciences Humaines, Liens Socio)
Angèle Christin. 2008. Emergency Hearings : Inquiry on a Judiciary Practice [Comparutions Immédiates : Enquête
sur une Pratique Judiciaire], Paris, La Découverte.
(Widely reviewed in Esprit, Le Nouvel Observateur, France Culture, Sciences Humaines,
NonFiction, etc.).
ARTICLES
Peer-reviewed journals
Angèle Christin. 2012. “Gender and Highbrow Cultural Participation in the United States.” Poetics, 40
(5), 423-443.
Angèle Christin. 2011. “Le Rôle de la Socialisation Artistique durant l’Enfance: Genre et Pratiques
Culturelles Légitimes aux États-Unis.” Réseaux, 168-169(4), 59-86.
Angèle Christin, Paul Pasquali. 2011. “Caméra, Terrain et Sciences Sociales. Présentation.” Revue de
Synthèse, 132 (6), n° 3, 319-324.
Angèle Christin. 2006. “ Jurys Populaires et Juges Professionnels en France. Ou Comment Approcher
le Jugement Pénal”, Genèses, 65, 138-150.
Other journals
Angèle Christin, Olivier Donnat. 2014. “French and American Cultural Participation. Elements of
Comparison.” Culture Etudes, 2014-1.
http://culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Politiques-ministerielles/Etudes-et-statistiques/InEnglish/Culture-survey-2007-2014/French-and-American-Cultural-participation.-Elements-ofcomparison-1981-2008-CE-2014-1
Angèle Christin. 2011. R. McChesney et V. Pickard. Will the Last Reporter Please turn out the Lights,
Le Monde Diplomatique, September issue, 24.
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2011/09/CHRISTIN/20982
Angèle Christin. 2008. “Juger dans l'urgence,” Sciences Humaines, 119, 43-46.
http://www.scienceshumaines.com/juger-dans-l-urgence_fr_22968.html
WORKING PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
“Counting Clicks. Commensuration in Online Journalism in the United States and France” (Under
Review)
 Shils-Coleman Best Student Paper Award, Theory Section (ASA)
 Best Student Paper Award, CITASA section (ASA)
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“Which Bloggers get Paid? Journalistic Work, Evaluation, and Compensation at a French
News Organization” (under review)”
“’Sex, Scandal, and Celebrities’? Exploring the Determinants of Success in Online News” (under
review)
“From ‘Champs’ to ‘Fields’: Lost in Translation?” (with M. Blanchard).
“Snobs versus Omnivores? Musical Tastes in the United States and France,” CACPS working paper.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“Counting Clicks. Commensuration in Online Journalism in the United States and France”
 ASA 2014 Annual Meeting, Section on the Sociology of Culture Regular Session (August 2014)
 Invited presentation at Hunter College, CUNY, Sociology Department (November 2013)
 Invited presentation at Harvard University, Sociology Department (October 2013)
 Mini-conference on Comparative Cultural Sociology, Eastern Sociological Society (March 2013)
 Colloquium “Comparaisons Franco-Américaines,” Sciences-Po (Paris, June 2013)
“Which Bloggers Get Paid? Evaluation and Compensation at a French News Organization”
 ASA 2014 Annual Meeting, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section Regular Session
(August 2014)
 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Work/Culture Session (February 2014)
 Seminar “Sociology of Markets,” Sciences-Po (January 2013)
 Workshop Economie et Société, Ecole Normale Supérieure (November 2012)
“From ‘Champs’ to ‘Fields’: Lost in Translation?” (with M. Blanchard)
 ASA 2014 Annual Meeting, Section on the History of Sociology Regular Session (August 2014)
 Colloquium “Circulations Transnationales et Echelles d'Analyse,” Ecole Normale Supérieure
(May 2014)
 Séminaire “Chantiers Critiques en Sciences Sociales,” Ecole Normale Supérieure (January 2014)
 Junior Theorists Symposium, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (August 2013)
“”Sex, Scandals, and Celebrities? Exploring the Determinants of Success in Online News”
 CITASA mini-conference (August 2014)
 WIP workshop, Princeton University (February 2014)
“Living in the Market. How Freelance Journalists Manage Careers and Reputations in the United States
and France”
 CRISALID Workshop, Université Paris-Dauphine (May 2014)
 CSSO Workshop, Princeton University (December 2013)
“Gender and Cultural Participation in the United States”
 Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts (STP&A) (Fairfax, October 2010)
 Conference “Thirty years after Distinction” (Paris, November 2010)
 Conference “Childhood and Culture” (Paris, December 2010).
“Emergency Hearings: Inquiry on a Judiciary Practice”
 Invited talk, Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales
(CESDIP) (Paris, June 2008)
 Conference “Judiciary Practices,” Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Paris, March 2008)
 Conference “Ethnographie des Institutions,” Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, Dec. 2007)
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ACADEMIC TEACHING
Ecole Normale Supérieure / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Lecturer: Contemporary Sociology in the United States (with E. Ollion) (Fall 2012, 2011, Spring 2010)
Princeton University
Assistant in Instruction: Sociology of Law (Prof. Kim Lane Scheppele) (Spring 2011)
Princeton University
Assistant in Instruction: Money, Work and Social Life (Prof. Viviana Zelizer) (Fall 2010).
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Assistant in Instruction: Ethnographic Methods (Prof. Stéphane Beaud) (Fall 2007)
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
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June 2010 – June 2013: Principal investigator on the project “Arts participation in the United
States and France, 1981-2009.” Ministère de la Culture (Paris). Statistical analysis of the Survey
of Public Participation in the Arts and the Enquête sur les Pratiques Culturelles des Français.
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Summer 2009: Research assistant for Paul DiMaggio. Statistical analysis of the Survey of Public
Participation in the Arts.
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2007-2008 : Research assistant for Olivier Donnat, Ministère de la Culture (Paris). Elaboration
of the questionnaire for the Enquête sur les Pratiques Culturelles des Français.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ASSOCIATIONS
Reviewer for sociological journals (American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Poetics, Sociological Inquiry, The
Sociological Quarterly, Professions and Professionalism, etc.).
Member of the Princeton Committee for the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2013).
Presentation to the Graduate School Leadership Council and Alumni Day Luncheon, Princeton (2012).
Member of the American Sociological Association. Sections: Theory; Communication and Information
Technologies; Economic Sociology; Culture; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Media.
Member of the Eastern Sociological Society.
LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
French, native speaker.
English, fluent.
Spanish, fluent.
Statistics and programming: STATA, SAS.
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REFERENCES
Kim Lane Scheppele
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Sociology
Princeton University
415 Robertson Hall
609-751-2631
[email protected]
Florence Weber
Professeur des Universités
Département de Sciences Sociales
Ecole Normale Supérieure
48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
(+33) 1 44 32 30 00
[email protected]
Viviana A. Zelizer
Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Princeton University
120 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-4557
[email protected]
Paul J. DiMaggio
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Sociology Department and Woodrow Wilson School
118 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-1971
[email protected]
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