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Goal
The Social History Prize is awarded by the Mattei Dogan Foundation and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme to two excellent doctoral theses dealing with a subject of social history, in the broadest sense of the term, from the 19th to the 21st century, one on France and the other on one or more foreign countries or a transnational subject.
Award
The prize is awarded for two doctoral theses defended (alone or in co-supervision) in a French higher education institution during the two years preceding the award year.
For the 2023 edition, theses will have been defended between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022.
The prize money is currently valued at €3,000 per winner.
Constitution of the file
- A copy of the thesis
- A summary of the thesis (2 to 3 pages)
- The report of the thesis jury
- The candidate’s curriculum vitae
Provide a separate pdf file for each part, called : NAME-Thesis.pdf, NAME-Summary.pdf, NAME-Report.pdf, NAME-CV.pdf.
All documents must be sent by email to: prix-histoiresociale@msh-paris.fr
Schedule
- 1st December 2022: publication of the call for applications
- 31 January 2023: application deadline
- February – May 2023: evaluation of applications (two sessions) and selection of two winning theses
- May – June 2023: results sent to candidates by the FMSH
- June 2023: Presentation of the Mattei Dogan Foundation & FMSH Social History Prize
Best doctoral theses in social history
Thomas
le Roux
Alexandre
Sumpf
Les bolcheviks et l’éducation politique de la paysannerie dans les années 1920
Frédéric
Viguier
Mobilisations humanitaires et transformations de l’État social en France depuis 1945
Volny
Fagès
Cosmogonies scientifiques en France (1860-1920) : acteurs, pratiques, représentations
Roman
Krakowsky
La Tchécoslovaquie 1948-1989
Anaïs
Albert
Une histoire sociale et culturelle du cycle de vie des objets dans les classes populaires parisiennes (des années 1880 aux années 1920)
Marie-
Paulle Hille
Ethnographie historique et anthropologique d’une communauté musulmane chinoise
(Gansu, 1857-2014)
Clélia
Coret
Écriture de l’histoire et légitimation du pouvoir au nord de la côte est-africaine (1812-1895)
Mathieu
Marly
Promotion, recrutement et discipline dans les rangs de l’armée française (1872-1914)
Julien
Caranton
Acteurs et enjeux de la régulation sociale (Grenoble, 1842-1938)
Ariane
Mak
Les mineurs britanniques au prisme des enquêtes du Mass Observation (1939-1945)
Julie
Marquet
Les affaires de caste dans les Établissements français de l'Inde, 1816-1870
Thibault
Bechini
Jiawen
Sun
Jean-Christophe
Balois-Proyart
Daniela
Duran
Agreement between the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Mattei Dogan Foundation for the attribution of prizes