
Past Member
Sophie Wahnich
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
History of the French Revolution
Home Institution
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Website
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Sophie Wahnich works on the role of emotions in the construction of social bonds in a past/present relationship. She plans to compare our anxiety today in the face of “hyperbolic doubt” to that arising in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the emergence of a plurality of creeds. She will focus especially on historical anthropology of rituals and of the sacred.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Social Science
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Degrees
EHESS
Habilitation à diriger des recherches
2007
Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
Ph.D.
1994
Éducation Nationale
Agrégation
1988
Appointments
CNRS/EHESS
2016–2018
laboratory director (IIAC, CNRS)
CNRS
2010–2018
research director (DR1 CNRS),