Marcia Consolim

Marcia Consolim is a full professor at the School of Philosophy, Letters, and Humanities at the Federal University of São Paulo. Her research focuses primarily on the following areas: sociology of intellectuals and the humanities and social sciences, and the international circulation of scientists and intellectuals. Her latest publications focus on the history of psychology and sociology in France, as well as the international mobility of professors between France, Brazil, and the United States during the first half of the 20th century. Member of the Brazilian Institute of Durkheimian Studies. Visiting researcher at the European Center for Sociology and Political Science, the Alexandre Koyré Center, and the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History. Coordinator of the SciCi - Science in Circulation laboratory at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Unifesp and participating member of irl2024 – Maison CNRS – USP (Worlds in Transition).

The project

Titre : Human sciences in combat: dissemination, publication, internationalization (1920-1945)

" The aim of this project is to study the social and intellectual conditions surrounding collective publications in the humanities in France during the first half of the 20th century. This project focuses in particular on a collective publication edited by Georges Dumas (1866-1946), published at two different times during this period: the Traité de Psychologie (Treatise on Psychology) in 1923-1924, and the Nouveau Traité de Psychologie (New Treatise on Psychology) between 1930 and 1948. The starting point for this research is the assumption that this encyclopedic publication played a key role in the controversies surrounding the legitimate definition of several sciences and scientific approaches. Given that the publication of collective works is an expression of academic cultures and forms of sociability, the hypothesis guiding this analysis is that the positions defended by the 35 contributors to the two treatises correspond to their social and intellectual trajectories. "

Hosting institution: École Normale Supérieure (ENS)

Selective Bibliography

• Consolim, Marcia. (2024). “Universidade de São Paulo: epicentro de uma controvérsia transnacional”. Tempo Social, v. 36, p. 133-172.
• Consolim, Marcia. (2023). « L’enseignement des sciences sociales au Brésil Français, Nord-Américains et Brésiliens (1933-1945) ». Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines, v. 1, p. 15-48.
• Consolim, Marcia. (2021) “Circulação de intelectuais e recepção das novas ciências do homem francesas no Brasil: 1908- 1932”, Tempo Social, v. 33, p. 17-51.
• Consolim, Marcia (2020). “Georges Dumas et Marcel Mauss”. Durkheimian Studies. v. 24, p. 144-174, 2020.
• Consolim, Marcia (2019). « La réception de la psychologie dans (1898-1927) ». L'Année sociologique, v. 69, p. 103-142.