Florence Weber CV English

Florence Weber
Professor of Sociology and Ethnography
Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Ecole normale supérieure
Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS-EHESS-ENS)
48 Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris – France
33-1-43-13-62-26
[email protected]
http://www.cmh.ett.ens.fr/hopmembres/ficheperso.php?id=52&id_rub=4
CURRICULUM VITAE
Training
Philosophy and Greek at École normale supérieure de Jeunes Filles, Paris (1977-1982)
Master in Social Anthropology, EHESS (1981)
Agrégation in Social Sciences (1981)
PhD in Social Anthropology, EHESS (1986)
Habilitation in Sociology, Paris 8 University (2000)
Career
Junior researcher (1982-1986), researcher (1986-1993), senior researcher (1993-1998) at the
National Institute for Agronomic Research
Professor at ENS since 1998
Head of the ENS Department of Social Sciences, 2002-2005 and 2010-now
Undergraduate and graduate students’ Advisor at the ENS Department of Social Sciences, 20062009
Teaching and evaluation activities
Master in Social Sciences, ENS & EHESS: conferences, organization of cycles, organization of
students’ ethnographic fieldwork, seminaries and workshops since 1984
Courses in Sociology for the Agrégation in Economic and Social Sciences (1998-2006)
Visiting Professor at New York University, Institute of French Studies (Fall 2003): Family and
State in French contemporary Society
PhD Advisor and Director (Paris VIII, EHESS, ENS) since 1996
Member of the Admission Board at the Institut national du Patrimoine (training curators and
conservators of cultural heritage), Paris, 2007-2008
Editorial activities
Co-director with Stéphane Beaud of the Series in Ethnographic Studies, collection “Textes à
l’appui”, Paris, La Découverte, 1998-2006
Director of the Series “Selected works of Marcel Mauss” at Presses Universitaires de France,
collection Quadrige, Paris, 2012-2015
Director of the collection “Social Sciences”, Editions rue d’Ulm, Paris, from 2013.
Member of editorial Boards: Critiques sociales (1987-1997), Cahiers d’Economie et Sociologie
rurales (1986-1998), Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire (from 1990), Ethnography (from
2001), ethnographiques.org (from 2009)
Co-organization of the 2002 Annual Workshop of the ENS Department of Social Sciences:
Economics and Social Sciences.
Co-organization of the 2003 Jourdan Conference: Intra-family inequalities.
Member of the Scientific Committee for the 2005 Rio de Janeiro National Museum’s
Conference: Quantification and temporality: Ethnographic perspectives on Economy.
Co-organization of the 2007 Marne-la-Vallée University Conference: Informal Economy,
Underground Employment: Social and Economic Issues.
Member of the Scientific Board for the 2009 international Conference at the Collège de
France/CNAM (Paris): Work, Identities, Trade, Which Metamorphoses?
Organization of the 2013 international Conference at Ecole normale supérieure (Paris): Mental
health, society, cognition.
Organization of Research
Member of the Scientific Committee for Social Sciences Research, Ministère du Travail, des
relations sociales, de la famille et de la solidarité (Department of Health and Human Services),
Paris, 2006-2008
Member of the Scientific Committee for the Handicap and Health National Survey (INSEEDREES), 2006-2008
President of the Scientific Committee for Psychic Disability Research (DREES-MiRe), 20082011
Head of the team ENS-EHESP “Psychic Disability and Decision for Others” supported by Caisse
nationale de Solidarité pour l’Autonomie (CNSA), within Maison des Sciences socials du
Handicap, 2011-2015
March 16th, 2013