Sylvie Tissot

Visiting Scholar
Assistant Professor
Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x297
E-Mail: stissot@fas.harvard.edu
E-Mail (Secondary): stissot@umb.u-strasbg.fr



Biographical Statement

Dr. Tissot is an assistant professor at Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg and a researcher at the Center of Urban Culture and Society, Paris. In her doctorate, which will be published in early 2007, she explored the history of the category of "quartier sensible" (underprivileged areas). She has published articles in Genèses, Politix, and French Politics, and Culture and Society. She also edited two special issues of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales on "Thinking, Classifying, and Administering Poverty," as well as a book on activists. Her research focuses on urban reform, in France and in the United States, and her current fieldwork is in the South End neighborhood of Boston. She will be in residence at CES from January through June of 2007.