Annabelle Allouch

Annabelle Allouch is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Picardie-Jules Verne (CURAPP-ESS) and an associate researcher at the Institut national de l’Audiovisuel (INA). After completing a sociology thesis at Sciences Po on the sociology of social inclusion in the Grandes Ecoles, her current research focuses on the production and circulation of academic hierarchies and rankings in France and the Anglo-American world, from a perspective inspired by political sociology, economic sociology and the sociology of emotions.

She is also leading a series of research projects funded by the Défense des droits, the INJEP and the Research Mission of the Ministry of Justice on the ways in which school judgements are contested, on appeals against the Parcoursup and on access to master’s courses (with Delphine Espagno-Abadie).

She is the author of La Société du concours. L’empire des classements scolaires, published by Seuil/La République des idées in 2017, and Mérite, published by Anamosa in 2021. She has also co-edited several journal issues on the sociology of higher education, the notion of anxiety through the lens of the social sciences, and representations of masculinity in the media.

She was a visiting scholar at Oxford University (2008/2009) and then at the Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies at Harvard University (2015/2016).

Her website: https://u-picardie.academia.edu/AnnabelleALLOUCH