Curriculum Vitae (english) - csu

NICOLAS LARCHET
École Doctorale,
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Cultures et Sociétés Urbaines
(CSU-Cresppa, UMR 7112 CNRS/Université Paris 8)
59-61, rue Pouchet
75 849 Paris Cedex 17, France
Office: 011-33 (0)1-40-25-10-51
Cell: 011-33 (0)6-73-53-70-94
Email: [email protected]
Education
École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 2006-Present
 Ph.D., Sociology, Expected Spring 2015
 Dissertation: Des habitudes à changer ? Sociologie d’une réforme des pratiques alimentaires populaires à
La Nouvelle-Orléans (“Habits to Change? Sociology of a Reform of Popular Food Practices in New
Orleans”). Advisors: Christian Topalov and Dominique Memmi
 M.A., Social Sciences, “Territoires, Espaces et Sociétés”, 2007
Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP), University of Strasbourg, 2002-2006
 B.A., Social Sciences, Concentration in Political Sociology, 2006
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2004-2005
 Exchange Program (Senior-Level Courses in Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology)
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Larchet, Nicolas. “De l’urgence sociale à l’utopie sanitaire. La construction sociale de l’obésité et
l’occultation de la faim dans les villes américaines (Knoxville, 1981-1984).” Actes de la recherche en sciences
sociales (forthcoming).
Grillot, Thomas and Nicolas Larchet. “Alternative Foods, Activism and Strawberries in California: An
Interview with Julie Guthman.” Books and Ideas, 9 February 2015.
Grillot, Thomas and Nicolas Larchet (eds.) “À table ! Alimentation et sciences sociales.” La Vie des idées,
27 January 2015 (translated by Ophélie Siméon, “Let’s Eat! Food and the Social Sciences.” Books and Ideas,
9 February 2015).
Larchet, Nicolas. “Learning from the Corner Store. Food Reformers and the Black Urban Poor in a
Southern US City.” Food, Culture and Society 17, no. 4 (2014): 395-416.
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Larchet, Nicolas. “La catastrophe comme prétexte à l’action. Réformer l’alimentation au lendemain de
Katrina.” Terrain. Revue d’ethnologie de l’Europe, no. 54 (2010): 80-99.
Larchet, Nicolas. “Des citoyens sans cité : une analyse de la participation publique à la reconstruction de
La Nouvelle-Orléans.” Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, no. 75 (2009): 66-86.
Chapters in Edited Books
Larchet, Nicolas. “Planifier les besoins ou identifier les risques ? Formes et usages des enquêtes de
consommation du ministère de l’Agriculture des États-Unis (1935-1985).” In La juste mesure. Une sociologie
historique des normes alimentaires, edited by Thomas Depecker, Anne Lhuissier, and Aurélie Maurice, 149-189.
Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes et Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2013.
Larchet, Nicolas. “Food Reform Movements.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd
ed., vol. 1, edited by Andrew F. Smith, 796-805. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Larchet, Nicolas. “Pollan, Michael.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd ed., vol. 3,
edited by Andrew F. Smith, 37-39. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Book Reviews
Abend, Gabriel. The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2014. In “La morale, dernier rempart du capitalisme.” La Vie des idées, 11 September
2014.
Cottereau, Alain and Mokhtar Mohatar Marzok. Une famille andalouse. Ethnocomptabilité d’une économie invisible.
Saint-Denis: Bouchène, 2012. In Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales 67, no. 4 (2012): 1199-1201.
Huret, Romain. La fin de la pauvreté ? Les experts sociaux en guerre contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis (1945-1974).
Paris: Éditions de l’EHESS, 2008. In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 58, no. 3 (2011): 219-221.
Poulain, Jean-Pierre. Sociologie de l’obésité. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009. In Revue d’études en
agriculture et environnement/Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies, no. 91 (2010): 229-233.
Policy Report
Larchet, Nicolas. Food Policy Councils in North America : Structures, Resources and Issues. Report to the
Prevention Research Center, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2009.
Working Papers
Bense Ferreira-Alves, Celia, Sylvain Bordiec and Nicolas Larchet. “Race, classe et changements sociaux
dans la ville.” Presentation of the French Edition of Elijah Anderson. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an
Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. In Review at Éditions La Découverte
(Submitted September 2014).
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Bense Ferreira-Alves, Celia, Sylvain Bordiec and Nicolas Larchet. “Frontières de race et de classe.”
Presentation and Translation of Elijah Anderson. “Race and Class Boundaries.” Society 21, no. 1
(1983): 35-40. In Politix : revue des sciences sociales du politique (in Preparation for Submission).
PRESENTATIONS
Conference Papers
“Mohamed’s Corner. Le quotidien d’un patron d’épicerie mauritanien dans un quartier populaire noir
américain.” CSU Symposium,“Indépendant.e.s et classes sociales,” Paris: October 25, 2014.
“Réforme alimentaire et raison populaire. Les conditions sociales de l’imposition de nouvelles normes
d’alimentation dans les villes américaines.” 5th Congress of the French Sociological Association (AFS),
Nantes: September 4, 2013.
“‘It’s a Black Thing, you Won’t Understand!’: Consumption Practices, Respectability and the Social Order
of a Corner Store in New Orleans.” Elijah Anderson’s Conference at Université Paris 8, “Le ghetto
iconique et la canopée cosmopolite. Relations de race et de classe aux États-Unis aujourd’hui,” SaintDenis: May 29, 2013.
“Planifier les besoins ou dépister les risques ? Formes et usages des enquêtes de consommation du
Département de l’agriculture des États-Unis, 1935-1985.” INRA Symposium, “Mesure et réforme des
pratiques alimentaires (19e-20e siècles). Sciences, enquêtes et campagnes nutritionnelles,” Paris: October
14, 2011.
With Laure Pitti. “Guérir le social : enjeux épistémologiques.” 2nd CSU Conference, Paris: June 16, 2011.
“Comment entre-t-on en réforme ? Itinéraires individuels, action collective et références savantes autour
d’un projet de réforme de l’alimentation populaire à La Nouvelle-Orléans.” 2nd CSU Conference, Paris:
June 16, 2011.
“The Political Uses of Disaster: Reforming the Food System in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” XVII
International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Research Committee on Sociology of
Disasters, “Disaster Dissertations,” Göteborg: July 12, 2010.
“The Problem of Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans: An Ethnographic Counter-Perspective.” 2nd
Conference of the British Sociological Association Food Study Group, “Food, Society and Public Health,”
London: July 7, 2010.
“Enquêter sur les politiques de la reconstruction de La Nouvelle-Orléans à la suite de l’ouragan Katrina.”
IRIS-EHESS Symposium, “Catastrophes et risques : regards anthropologiques,” Paris: April 3, 2008.
Selected Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Discussion of Gabriel Abend. The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2014. CSU Conference, “Morales économiques : une sociologie historique des
‘business ethics’,” Paris: May 6, 2014.
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Co-Organization of Elijah Anderson’s Conference at Université Paris 8, “Le ghetto iconique et la canopée
cosmopolite. Relations de race et de classe aux États-Unis aujourd’hui,” Saint-Denis: May 29, 2013.
Chair, EHESS Master’s Program “Territoires, Espace, Sociétés” Symposium, “Espèces d’Espaces,” Paris:
May 18, 2011.
Discussion of Sara Le Menestrel. “‘Memory Lives in New Orleans’: the Process and Politics of
Commemoration,” and James M. Boyden. “God is Avenged: the Wage of Sin is Death? Hurricane Katrina
as a Providential Catastrophe.” EHESS Workshop, “Katrina 2005,” Paris: April 2, 2011.
Media
Interview in “Manger mieux pour 1,1 euros de plus par jour.” Le Figaro, December 6, 2013.
Interview in “Le grignotage est-il vraiment mauvais pour la santé ?” Sciences et Avenir, no. 787 (2012): 3839.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Research Interests
Social Movements and Collective Action
 Food Reform Movements, Social Construction of Hunger and Obesity in Contemporary
American Society (since 1970)
Sociology of Learned and Popular Cultures
 Ethnography of Popular Food and Consumption Practices, Historical Sociology of American
Food Consumption Surveys (19th-20th Centuries)
Urban Sociology
 Race and Class Relations in American Cities, Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina
Research Experience
Université Paris 8, Assistant Research Engineer (Assistant Ingénieur de Recherche et de Formation), 2013
 Development and Organization of Scientific Events (Budget: € 10,000).
 Co-Organization of the 3rd CSU Conference, Paris: June 13-15, 2013.
Collaborator: “Genèse et transmission des normes alimentaires en France au XXe siècle : des dynamiques
publiques aux dynamiques familiales.” Principal Investigator: Anne Lhuissier. Funded by the French
National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the Nestlé France Foundation (€ 200,000), 20092011.
 2-Part Research Project: 1° Genealogy of Food Standards and their Diffusion in France in the
20th Century, Translation of Scientific Knowledge into Behavioral and Social Norms;
2° Transmission Mechanisms of Food Standards through Social Institutions: Family, School and
Public Authorities.
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Grants and Awards
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, EHESS Commission de la Scolarité, 2012
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, CNRS and Université Paris 8, 2009-2010
Research Award, Nestlé France Foundation (€ 20,000), 2009
Teaching Experience
Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris (“Sciences Po”), Contractual Teaching and Research Assistant (Attaché
Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche), 2013-2014
 Introduction to Sociology
Université de Nantes, Contractual Teaching and Research Assistant (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de
Recherche), 2011-2012
 Sociology of the Family ; Sociology of Education ; Socio-Professional Groups ; Descriptive
Statistics ; Survey Methodology
Université Paris Est Créteil, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (chargé de cours), 2010-2011
 Introduction to Sociology ; Sociology of Organizations
SERVICE
Institutional
Editorial Board, Lettre du CSU (Research Center Newsletter), 2010-2013
Member, Cresppa Electoral Commission, 2012-2013
Member, Group on the CSU Website Design, 2011-2012
Member, Group on Book Purchases of the Cresppa Library, 2011-2012
Member, CSU Treasury Committee, 2010-2011
Doctoral Students’ Representative, CSU, 2010-2011
Community
Intern, Renaissance Project, New Orleans, 2009-2010
Consultant, Prevention Research Center, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical
Medicine, 2009
Volunteer, Hollygrove Market and Farm, New Orleans, 2009
Volunteer, New Orleans Food and Farm Network, 2009
Volunteer, ACORN, New Orleans, 2007
Professional Affiliations
French Sociological Association
International Sociological Association
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