My book, Devant l’histoire en crise (PUM, 2022), for which was awarded the Prix Francophone from the Canadian Political Science Association in 2024, is now available. You can visit the PUM website to order a copy. Here is a blurb in English.

Mon livre intitulé Devant l’histoire en crise. Raymond Aron et Leo Strauss, et pour lequel j’ai reçu en 2024 le Prix francophone de l’Association canadienne de science politique, est maintenant disponible sur le site des PUM. Vous trouverez ici un court vidéo de présentation de l’ouvrage.

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I am an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa. I specialize in modern and contemporary political philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century German thought, philosophy of history, French democratic theory as well as interpretive approaches in the history of political ideas.

I am the author of Devant l’histoire en crise. Raymond Aron et Leo Strauss (University of Montreal Press, 2022). The book offers a fresh interpretation of the intellectual exchange between two key figures in 20th-century political thought. In it, I examine how the crisis of historicism—particularly in interwar Germany and France—shaped debates about the possibilities and limits of political judgment.

My published work also includes contributions in continental political thought, democratic theory, epistemology of the social sciences and theory of history. My research has appeared in The Review of Politics, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, H-Diplo, Cahiers Philosophiques, Politique & Sociétés among others. I also led a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2020-2024) funded project investigating how the concept of “crisis” functions in contemporary political discourse. Drawing on Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte approach, my research traces the evolution, uses, and performative power of “crisis” as a rhetorical and conceptual tool in politics and analyzes how the social imaginary of crisis shapes our understanding of politics.

Before joining the Department of Political Science at Carleton, I completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in political theory at the University of Toronto. A native of Quebec, I earned her BA in Political Science and Philosophy and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa before completing my PhD in Political Philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. I have also held a Visiting Doctoral Fellowship at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

I teach a wide range of courses in political theory, including classical political thought (Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Thucydides), modern political thought (from La Boétie and Machiavelli to J.S. Mill and Nietzsche) as well as contemporary political theory. When I am not doing research, reading, writing, or teaching, I enjoy playing the piano and the – less noble – accordion. Since 2017, I am also the organizer of a monthly reading group at Carleton University entitled “Reading the Classics of Social Sciences,” in which Faculty members, graduate and advanced undergraduate students meet to read and discuss authors that have left a significant mark in the field of the social sciences. So far we have studied Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, Foucault’s Sécurité, Territoire, Population, Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and some of Isaiah Berlin’s essays.

For more info on my research projects and publications, see my Academia profile.

Je suis présentement professeure agrégée en théorie politique au département de science politique de l’Université Carleton à Ottawa. Mes intérêts de recherche portent notamment sur la philosophie politique contemporaine, la pensée politique allemande et française (19e-20e siècles), la philosophie de l’histoire, la théorie démocratique française, l’épistémologie des sciences sociales et les approaches interprétatives en histoire des idées politiques.

Avant mon arrivée à Ottawa, j’ai complété un fellowship postdoctoral en théorie politique à l’Université de Toronto, où j’étais également postdoctorante affiliée au Centre for Ethics. J’ai obtenu un doctorat en philosophie et sciences sociales (spécialisation en philosophie politique) de l’École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) à Paris. J’ai également été Visiting Doctoral Fellow au Committee on Social Thought de l’Université de Chicago. Je détiens un double baccalauréat en Philosophie et Science Politique, de même qu’une maîtrise en philosophie, de l’Université d’Ottawa.

Pour plus d’informations sur mes projets de recherches et articles, voir mon profil Academia.