2024
Serge Vaucelle, Jouer, S’Exercer, S’Entraîner. Une Histoire Culturelle de la Performance Sportive, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Sciences du sport, Université de Toulouse, soutenue le 12 avril 2024 sous la direction de Jean Saint-Martin. Autres membres du jury : Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Daphné Bolz, Olivier Chovaux, Philippe Terral et Georges Vigarello.
2022
Francois-René Julliard, « Cette médaille est pour l’Amérique noire”. Les athlètes olympiques noirs américains, entre excellence sportive et lutte pour l’égalité (1896-1984), Thèse de doctorat en Histoire contemporaine, Université Clermont Auvergne, soutenue le 16 décembre 2022 sous la direction de Fabien Conord et de Caroline Rolland-Diamond (Université Paris 10). Autres membres du jury : Justine Faure, Éric Agbessi, Thomas J. Sugrue et Laurence Cossu-Beaumont
Rachel Ozerkevich, Aestheticizing sport : representations of athletes in France, 1881-1914, Doctoral theses in Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, defended on May 3, 2022 under the direction of Daniel J. Sherman. Other members of the jury: Jennifer Bauer, Eduardo Douglas, Gordon Hughes, Donald Reid.
Zineb Belmaati-Cherkaoui, The geopolitical stakes of the Mediterranean sports worlds: the Mediterranean Games, Doctoral theses in Sports Science under the supervision of Olivier le Noé and Pascal Charitas, University of Paris 10 (co-director), expected to be defended on 5 September 2022. Other members of the jury: Daphné Bolz, Dominique Connan, Marion Fontaine, Claude Kemo-Keimbou
Clément Astruc, Brazilian football around the world. Issues of international projection through sport (1945-1979), Doctoral thesis in Contemporary History under the supervision of Olivier Compagnon and Fabien Archambault, Paris 3 and Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne (co-supervision), expected to be defended on 21 October 2022. Other members of the jury: Justine Faure, Laurent Vidal, Bernardo Buarque, Pascale Goetschel
2021
Lorenzo Jalabert d’Amado, The origins of the World Cup: Montevideo 1930. Mass culture: political uses of sport and national construction, Doctoral thesis in Contemporary History under the supervision of Olivier Compagnon and Denis Merklen, Université Paris 3 (co-director), defended on 18 October 2021. Position: Rapporteur of the thesis project. Other members of the jury: Fabien Archambault, Daphné Bolz, Gerardo Caetano, William Gasparini.
Lionel Pabion, Sport in the military? The military training societies in France: militarised leisure activities (1880s - 1930s), Doctoral thesis in Contemporary History under the supervision of Édouard Lynch, Université Lyon 2, defended on 12 November 2021. Position: Rapporteur of the thesis project. Other members of the jury: Anne Rasmussen, Olivier Chovaux, Emmanuel Saint-Fuscien, Daphné Bolz
2020
Florys Castan-Vicente, A body of one's own? Physical activities and feminism during the 'first wave' (France, late 19th century - late 1930s), Doctoral thesis in Contemporary History under the supervision of Pascal Ory, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, defended on 23 November 2020. Position: Rapporteur of the thesis project. Other members of the jury: Christine Bard, Anaïs Bohuon, Daphné Bolz, Pascale Gœtschel.
2019
Daniel de Souza Malanski, Narratives of Brazil – Brazilian Identity representations in International Mega-Events – the cases of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, Doctoral thesis in Artistic and Cultural History under the supervision of Catherine Bertho-Lavenir and Emilio Fernández, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (cotutelle), defended on 29 May 2019. Position: Rapporteur of the thesis project. Other members of the jury: Évelyne Cohen, Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho, Arnaud Richard.
Claire Nicolas, Sport, Citizenship and Gender in West Africa: A Comparative Social and Political History of Youth in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire in the 20th Century, Doctoral thesis in political science and sports science under the supervision of Richard Banégas and Nicolas Bancel, Institut d'études politiques de Paris and Université de Lausanne (cotutelle), defended on 17 December 2019. Other members of the jury: Anaïs Bohuon, Anne Hugon, Alexander Keese, Anne Marcellini.
2018
Sébastien Moreau, Sports meetings. A social and cultural history of sport in Reims, a center of national and European sport (1918-1939), Doctoral thesis in Contemporary History under the supervision of Christophe Charle, Université Paris 1, defended in September 2018. Other members of the jury: Stéphane Beaud, Marion Fontaine, Manuel Schotté, Denis Scuto
Lucie Hémeury, The Untraceable Pact. Sport, Peronism and Society in Argentina 1946-1955, Thèse de doctorat en Histoire contemporaine sous la direction d’Olivier Compagnon, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, soutenue le 11 décembre 2018. Fonction : Rapporteur du projet de thèse. Autres membres du jury : Fabien Archambault, Marcela Ferrari, Denis Merklen, Danielle Tartakowsky.
2016
Sylvain Dufraisse, The "Heroes of Sport": The Making of the Soviet Sports Elite (1934-1980), Doctoral thesis in Contemporary History under the supervision of Marie-Pierre Rey, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, defended on 12 March 2016. Position: Rapporteur of the thesis project. Other members of the jury: Sophie Cœuré, Martine Mespoulet, Pascal Ory.
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