Charlotte Thomas Hébert
Doctorante
(updated May 2020)
Education
2015-Present PhD in Political Science, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (expected Spring 2021)
Dissertation: Performing Disobedience: Engaging Power by Risking Arrest (New York, 2001-2020)
Adviser: Isabelle Sommier
Fall 2019 Visiting Research Scholar, Columbia Law School
Faculty sponsor: Bernard Harcourt
Spring 2018 Visiting Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, Brown University
Faculty sponsor: David Estlund
Fall 2017 Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Sociology,Graduate Center, City University of New York
Faculty sponsor: James Jasper
2015 (Auditor) MA in Political Science - Political Sociology, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2014 MA in International Relations - American Studies, (First Class Honors), Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle
2005 BA in Film Studies, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
- “"Going limp": The Practice and Mise en Scène of Vulnerability as Activist Strategy for Civil Disobedience Actions in the United States”, Genre, sexuality & Société, 2020 (forthcoming, in French).
- “The Trump Resistance’s Repertoire of Contention and its Conception and Practice of Civil Disobedience and Nonviolent Direct Action (2016-2018)”, Society of Americanists Review, 2, 2020 (forthcoming, in English).
- “Conducting Sensitive Research as an Alien Ethnographer in the United States”, American Studies Journal, 68, 2019, available online (in English).
- “The Escalation and Legitimation of Non-violent Direct Action in the United States in the 1970s: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, by Daniel Berrigan”, Parlement(s), 2019, 29 : 153-169, available online (in French).
- “The Assault on White Nationalist Richard Spencer at the Inauguration of Donald Trump”, Parlement(s), 2018, 28: 115-121, available online (in French).
Chapters in edited collections and collective projects
- “« On Anger », Barbarba Deming (1971)”, in Cécile Dubernet, Justin Scherer (eds.), Non-violence et politique, un compagnon pédagogique. Québec, Editions science et bien commun, 2020 (forthcoming - in French).
- "Epilogue: The Second Sex, Time and Again", Critique 13/13, New York, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, October 2019, available online (in English).
- “Mapping the American Radical Left since 2001”, in Nicolas Lebourg, Isabelle Sommier (eds.), La violence des marges politiques des années 1980 à nos jours. Paris, Riveneuve Éditions, 2017 : 93-107 (in French).
Translations
- Barbara Deming. "On Anger", in Cécile Dubernet, Justin Scherer (eds.), Non-violence et politique, un compagnon pédagogique. Québec, Editions science et bien commun, 2020(forthcoming). Translation from English to French.
- Isabelle Sommier. 2016. “French Involvement in the Global Justice Movement, from the European Social Forums to the World Social Forum in Dakar (2002-2013)”, French Politics, 2016, 14 (3): 311-328. Translation from French to English.
Workshop and conference organization
- Co-organizer of the panel “What Intersectionality Does - or Does not Do - to Activism”, 15th National Conference of the French Association of Political Science (AFSP), Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, July 2-4, 2019. Program available online (in French).
- Co-organizer of the conference “Social Mobilizations in the United States since 2008: The End of the Neoliberal Paradigm?”, a collaboration between the CESSP (Paris 1) and HDEA (Paris 4 Sorbonne) laboratories, Salle des Actes de la Sorbonne, Paris, France, June 23, 2017. Program available online (in French).
- Organizer of the monthly doctoral workshop on Mobilization and Political Engagement (Mobilisations et Engagements - MobeE) at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Invited conferences & talks
- “Disobedient Trajectories, Biographical Consequences, Vulnerability: High and Low Risk/Cost Activism as a Continuum” - General conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), section Current Research and Challenges on Political Participation and Mobilization, panel “The Effects of Political Participation and Social Movements”, University of Innsbruck, August 26-28, 2020.
- ""Going limp": Queer Vulnerability as Activist Strategy for Civil Disobedience Actions in the United States" - Queering the city ? Transatlantic Perspectives, International conference organized by université Paris Nanterre (CREA) and université Paris 8 (LEGS), June 11-13, 2020.
- "Resisting Definitions: Disobeying by Risking Arrest" - Interdisciplinary Conference "Civil Society and the Law: Civil Disobedience, Protests and the (Re)writing of Environmental Politics", Lausanne University, May 28-29, 2020.
- “The Trump Resistance’s Repertoire of Contention and its Conception and Practice of Civil Disobedience and Nonviolent Direct Action (2016-2018)” - Social Movements after the Global Crash: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Social Movement Studies Journal Conference, Loughborough University, London UK, June 27-29, 2019.
- “The Evolution of the New York Pride March, between Memory Construct, Institutional Constraints and Counter-protests” - Stonewall at 50 and beyond: Interrogating the Legacy and Memory of the 1969 Riots, International conference organized by Université Paris Est Créteil (IMAGER) and Université Paris Dauphine (IRISS), Paris France, June 3-5, 2019.
- “The Institutionalization of Protest? The Trump Resistance’s Repertoire of Contention and its Conception and Practice of Civil Disobedience and Nonviolent Direct Action (2016-2018)” - 51st Congress of the French Association of American Studies (AFEA), université de Nantes, France, May 21-24, 2019.
- “The Institutionalization of Protest? Civil Disobedience and Permitted Direct Action in the Trump Resistance” - American Politics Group of the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, January 3-5, 2019.
- “Judith Butler and Social Movement Studies” - Contemporary Critical Studies seminar, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, March 16, 2017.
- “Mapping the American Radical Left” - Violence and Radical Activism from the 1980s to the Present, conference organized by CRULH/Université de Lorraine and ANR Vioramil, Metz France, December 2, 2016.
University service
- 2019-2021: Student Representative at the Council of the Doctoral School of Political Science of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
- 2016-2018: Student Representative at the Academic Council - Research Commission of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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