Marie-Claude Maurel#
| Membership Number: | 4773 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ehess.fr/fr/centre-détudes-mondes-russe-caucasien-et-centre-européen-cercec |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Chair Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris)
- 2010 - 2013 Director of the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris (an institution devoted to the promotion of academic excellence)
- 2006 - 2010 Director of the French Research Center in Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2002 - 2006 Chair Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris)
- 1997 - 2001 Director of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the CNRS, Paris
- 1986 - 1997 Full Professor at the Paul Valery University, Montpellier
- 1978 - 1985 Associate Professor at the Paul Valery University, Montpellier
- 1970 - 1978 Assistant Professor at the Paul Valery University, Montpellier
Fields of Scholarship
- Patterns of post-socialist transformation in the rural areas of Central Europe
- Local democracy and administrative reforms in Central Europe during the transition of system
- The soviet collective model of agriculture in Russia (1960-1991)
- Rural societies and countryside in Eastern and Central Europe
- Local development stakeholders and the European model
- Property regimes, land ownership and land use in Central Europe
- Agrarian decollectivisation in Central Europe (1989- 2004)
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Bronze Medal of the CNRS
- 1995 Prize of the Geographic Society, Paris
- 1996 Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite
- 1991 - 1996 Junior Member of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF)
- 2000 Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’honneur
- 2005 Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies ‘Collegium Budapest’ in Hungary.
- 2010 Officier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’honneur
- 2010 František Palacky Medal in Historical sciences, Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Correspondent Member of the French Academy for Agriculture
- 2012 Trnka Medal, Czech Technical University, Prague
- 2016 Full Member of the French Academy for Agriculture
