Social History Mattei Dogan Prize

Prize of the Foundation Mattei Dogan and of the FMSH for a thesis of excellency

Ongoing call

Deadline for application

31 January 2025

The Foundation manages and awards various prizes financed by legacies established by deceased scientists or by associations that turn to it, confident in the relevance of its selection and in the rigor of its management.

The prize of social History is awarded to two PhD thesis on social History, in every sense of the term, from the 19th to the 20th century, and dealing with :

France
one or various foreign countries or a transnational subject.

The prize is awarded to a PhD thesis (co-supervised or not) defended in a French educational institution during the two years preceding the award.

To apply in 2025, the thesis should have been defended between January 1st, 2023 and December 31st, 2024.

The prize is worth 3000€.

The jury of the prize is composed of:

Jean-François Chanet, Sciences Po
Irène Favier, University of Grenoble
Patrick Fridenson, EHESS /CRH
Anne Rasmussen, EHESS/CAK
Charlotte Vorms, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Mattei Dogan

Mattei Dogan (1920 –2010) was a political sociologist and senior research officer emeritus of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and professor emeritus of political science of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Over a period of 22 years, he also taught at UCLA, Yale University, Indiana University, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, and the University of Florence. He also received the CNRS Silver medal.

His main research domains include elite studies, interdisciplinary approaches and international comparative analysis. His publications have dealt with the relationship between political behavior and religious behavior, political legitimacy and the ruling class. He also worked on the Italian society and political regime.

In 2001, Mattei Dogan founded the Foundation Mattei Dogan, exclusively dedicated to the social sciences, in order to promote the major issues of advanced – or post-industrial - societies in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.