Sophie Wahnich | |
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| Nationality | French |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Vovelle |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | French Revolution |
| Institutions | French National Centre for Scientific Research |
Sophie Wahnich is a French historian. She is director of research at theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a specialist in theFrench Revolution.
Sophie Wahnich holds anagrégation (1988)[1] and a doctorate in history (1994),[2] and is qualified to direct research (2007).[3]
Wahnich is director of research at the CNRS and director of theInstitut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC).[4][5] Her work focuses on the relationship between the French Revolution[6] and the present time.[7] Her thesis was on the notion of the foreigner in the discourse of the French Revolution, and herHabilitation was entitledHistoire des émotions et présents de l'histoire, une approche politique et anthropologique du sensible en politique.
She is involved in various collectives. For example, she was a member of the board of theComité de vigilance face aux usages publics de l'histoire (CVUH),[8] and in 2015, she participated in the creation of theConseils d'urgence citoyenne.[9]
She also denounces a "privatization of knowledge ",[10] which led her to be the candidate of thePirate Party in the 12th district of theHauts-de-Seine during the 2012 legislative elections.
She co-signed tribunes in various media, including one published in 2017 inMediapart entitled "Faire gagner la gauche passe par le vote Mélenchon" (Making the left win goes through theMélenchon vote).[11]
In 2019, Wahnich participated in the summer university ofRévolution permanente (revolutionary communist current of theNew Anticapitalist Party) where she gave a conference presentation entitled1789 : Révolution bourgeoise ou révolution populaire? (1789: Bourgeois revolution or popular revolution?).[12]
