HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
A former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS), and "agrégé" in philosophy (ranked 2nd in the 2011 session of the high-level competitive national exam, "l’agrégation"), my doctoral research (2012-2018) emphasised the importance of the deliberations of the people in Rousseau's political philosophy.
My articles in the history of political thought have been published in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Consecutio Temporum, and Asterion. The book resulting from my thesis, entitled Les Délibérations du peuple. Contexte et concepts de la philosophie politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The People’s Deliberations: Context and Concepts of the Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau), was published in 2024 by Classiques Garnier.
CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY
In 2015, I received a regional grant to conduct a research stay at the Ethics Research Center of the University of Montreal. During my stay, I further delved into deliberative democracy and epistemic democracy. To cement my entry into the field of democratic theory, as well as to enrich it with an interdisciplinary approach, in 2018 I founded the junior laboratory MAAD (Current Changes and Approaches to Democracy) with two political scientists and a team of ten other young researchers at the ENS of Lyon. The common thread running through my research within this laboratory was extra-electoral democracy and the new model of democratic citizenship that emerges from it. My participation in the observation of the Citizens Convention for Climate was linked to this project.
My articles in political theory have been published in Philosophiques, Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, Raisons Politiques, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Critical Review.
ONGOING RESEARCH
Since July 2023, I have been a postdoctoral associate at Yale, where I am continuing my work on democratic theory and deliberative democracy, with a more applied angle. I am currently collaborating with Helene Landemore on two articles on the two French Citizens' Conventions (on climate and end-of-life issues).
My long-term personal project is to produce an argument for what I tentatively call the priority of equality. This project relates to the metaphysical and moral (problem of merit) as well as the anthropological (problem of envy and social comparisons), gender, social and political philosophy domains, while having ramifications on matters as diverse as distributive justice, criminal justice, family life, immigration, and democratic politics.
