Prof. Dr. Christine Musselin

Christine Musselin is a member of the Centre for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO), a Sciences Po and CNRS research unit, which she directed from 2007 to 2013. She then has served as the Vice-president for Research of Sciences Po until 2018. She leads comparative studies on university governance, higher education policies and academic labour markets. On her academic path, she was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellow in 1984-85 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998-99.

From 2011 to 2014, Christine Musselin has been a member of the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres). She participated also in the strategic commission of the German Excellence Initiative from 2009 to 2015, and she sat on the CNRS administration board from 2014 to 2021. She is the author of The long March of French Universities, New York, Routledge (2005) and The markets for academics, New York, Routledge (2009). One of her latest books La grande course des universités was published by the Presses de Sciences Po in 2017.