Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Romaine Girod, PhD in social sciences (supervisor Véronique Mottier)
“La réparation mise en cause. S’engager pour les droits des victimes de violences sexuelles dans l’Eglise catholique en Suisse Romande”
jury member (in the role of PhD supervisor)
internal colloque: tbc
public defense (viva): tbd
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Kwaku Adomako, PhD in social sciences (supervisor Sébastien Chauvin)
“Translating realities: how pro and anti-LGBT* advocates in transnational advocacy networks shape Ghanaian social and political landscapes”
jury member
internal colloque: 30 octobre 2025
public defense (viva): 16 mars 2026
Université de Genève, Département de Sociologie
Marco Nardone, PhD in sociology (supervisor Sandro Cattacin)
“Jeunesses marginalisées et institution psychiatrique: le cas des internements forcés de mineur.e.s dans le canton du Tessin (1945-1985)”
jury member
internal colloque: 30 January 2026
public defense (viva) with written PhD report: 15 June 2026
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Noëllie Genre, PhD in social sciences (supervisor Franco Panese)
“De l’objet-médicament à ses usages sociaux: reconfigurations de la prophylaxie du VIH en Suisse.”
jury member
internal colloque: 25 September 2025
public defense (viva): 28 January 2026
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Melanie Pinon, PhD in social sciences (co-supervisors René Knusel + Véronique Mottier)
“Vivre sans-abri à Genève : ce que l’état de santé révèle des processus de désocialisation et de grande précarité des personnes à la rue”
jury member (as PhD co-supervisor)
internal colloque: 2 May 2025
public defense (viva): 30 September 2025
Université de Lausanne, Institut d’Etudes Politiques
Baptiste Dufournet, PhD in political science (supervisor Florence Passy)
“The Boundaries of activism. How the mind and the cultural context shape the way activists delimit and construct their action repertoires”
jury member
internal colloque: 8 October 2024
public PhD defense (viva): 21 May 2025
University of Cambridge, Centre for Latin-American Studies
Beatriz Santos Bareto (supervisor Pedro Mendes Loreiro)
“Inner Dilemmas of LGBTQ+ movements in Brazil: a queer intersectional approach”
Internal Examiner
PhD viva with written report: 24 November 2024
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Charlene Calderaro, PhD in social sciences (supervisors Eléonore Lépinard + Sara Farris)
“Far-righting feminism? Criminalising street harassment in France and Britain”
jury member”
internal colloque: 28 June 2024
public defence (viva) with written report: 22 November 2024
Université de Lausanne
Wanwarung Softic (supervisor Olivier Voirol)
“Spectatorship and ideology in film: a case study of Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives“
jury member
internal colloque: 9 November 2022
public defence (viva): 9 February 2024
University of Cambridge, Centre for Gender Studies
Waruguru Gaitho (supervisor Holly Porter)
“‘To revolutionary type love’: legal mobilisation by Black lesbian bisexual and queer (LBQ+) women and non-binary people in Kenya and South Africa”
Faculty Advisor + evaluation of 1st year progress report: 16 October 2023
Université de Lausanne, Institute of Social Sciences
Carla Vaucher (supervisor Franco Panese)
“Réparer les coeurs, faconner les enfants. Trajectoires d’enfants béninois et togolais bénéficiant d’interventions chirurgicales en Suisse”
jury member
internal colloque: 3 February 2023
public defence (viva): 9 June 2023
2022: (list under construction)
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Lucile Quéré, PhD in Gender Studies (supervisor Eléonore Lépinard)
“Du corps au nous. Produire un sujet politique par le self-help féministe”
jury member
internal colloque: 11 June 2021
public defence (viva) with written report: 13 September 2021
University of Cambridge, Sociology Department
Julius Rogenhofer, PhD en sociologie (supervisor Filipe da Silva)
“Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder. Rethinking Germany’s response to irregular migration”.
Internal Examiner (with written reports before and after the viva): 10 September 2021
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Dagna Rams, PhD en Anthropologie (supervisor Mark Goodale)
“Scrap worlds in Ghana: assembling migrant livelihoods, metal markets and transnational interventions.”
jury member
internal colloque: 25 June 2021
public defence (viva): 9 September 2021
Université de Lausanne, Institut de psychologie
Amaelle Gavin, PhD in psychology (supervisor Marie Santiago)
“Professionnel.le.s et enfants de résident.e.s face à la sexualité des personnes agées en établissement médico-social en Suisse.”
jury member
internal colloque: 20 April 2021
public defence (viva): 5 July 2021
University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology
Yvonne Frankfurth, PhD in sociology (supervisor Sarah Franklin)
“Egg donation in Germany: a sociological study”.
Internal Examiner (with written reports before and after the viva): 27 April 2021
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département de science politique
Anne-Sophie Crosetti, PhD in sociology (supervisor Catherine Frenay) “Sexuellement libre et responsable. Les centres catholiques de planning familial face à la ‘révolution sexuelle’ (Belgique 1950-1990).”
jury member
internal colloque (with written report): 21 August 2020
public defence (with written report): 16 September 2020
University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology
Marieke Bigg, PhD in sociology (supervisor Sarah Franklin)
“Anne McLaren and the human embryo research debates in Britain, 1982-1990: sociological biography in the analysis of public debate.”
Internal Examiner (with written reports before and after the viva): 16 March 2020
Université de Genève, Département de Sociologie
Vanessa Fargnoli, PhD in sociology (supervisor Claudine Burton-Jeangros), “Vivre avec le VIH: une condition invisible.”
jury member
internal colloque with written report: 12 June 2019
public defence (viva) with written report: 1 October 2019
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Caroline Chautems, PhD in anthropology (supervisor Irène Maffi)
“Breastfeeding and the construction of new parents. An ethnography of holistic postpartum care in Switzerland.”
jury member
internal colloque: February 2019
public defence (viva): 25 September 2019
European University Institute, Florence
Mairena Hirschberg, PhD in History (supervisor Laura Lee Downs)
“There are many spare places at the table of life: a global history of the British child emigration society’s and the New York Children’s Aid Society’s child emigration schemes in the early twentieth century (1890-1939)”
member and President of the jury (with written report): 23 September 2019
University of Cambridge, Sociology Department
Abdullah Awad, PhD in sociology (supervisor Patrick Baert)
“The Frankfurt School in Jordan”
evaluation of 2nd year progress report (with written report): 21 June 2019
University of Cambridge, Sociology Department
Ruichen Zhang (supervisor Tiffany Page)
“Social media in China”
evaluation of 2nd year progress report (with written report): 20 juin 2019
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département de Psychologie
Sara Aguirre-Sanchez-Beato, PhD in psychology (supervisors Rorive & Closon) “Discursive practices constructing normative and trans Sex/gender categories. The effects of the legal certification of sex in Belgium and the definition of the (gendered) worked subject“
jury member
internal colloque (with written report): 3 May 2019
public defence (viva, with written report): 17 May 2019
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Dina Bader, PhD in sociology (supervisor V. Mottier)
“Gender, race and nation. Femonationalism and the problematisation of female circumcision and genital cosmetic surgery in the Swiss public sphere, 1983-2015”.
jury member (in the role of PhD supervisor)
internal colloque: 23 August 2018
public defence (with written report): 17 December 2018
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Gloria Casas-Vila, PhD in sociology (supervisor V. Mottier)
“Violences machistes et médiation familiale en Catalogne et en Espagne. Enjeux de la mise en œuvre d’un cadre légal d’inspiration féministe.”
jury member (in the role of PhD supervisor)
internal colloque: 3 September 2018
public defence (viva, with written report for French concours): 14 December 2018
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Claire Vionnet, PhD in social sciences (supervisor Vincent Barras)
“Les ombres en danse contemporaine. Métaphores pour penser le(s) sens de l’expérience du sujet dansant”
jury member
internal colloque: 20 June 2017
public defence (viva): 31 January 2018
University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies
Zoe Petkanas, PhD in political science (supervisor George Joffe)
“Politics of parity: gendering the Tunisian Second Republic 2011-2014”.
Internal Examiner (with written reports before and after the viva): 30 October 2017
University of Cambridge, Sociology Department
Rachell Sanchez, PhD en sociologie (dir. de thèse Monica Moreno): ‘Eugenics in Mexico.’
jury member, evaluation 2nd year progress report (with written report), 6 October 2017
Université de Lausanne, Institut des Sciences Sociales
Edmée Ballif, PhD en sociologie (dir. de thèse V. Mottier): « Mettre en mots avant de mettre au monde. Modalités temporelles de l’accompagnement psychosocial des femmes enceintes. »
member of jury (as PhD supervisor) colloque interne, 5 April 2017
membre du jury (dans le rôle de directrice de thèse), soutenance publique, 19 July 2017
University of Cambridge, Centre for Gender Studies
Liz Yarrow, PhD en Gender Studies (dir. de thèse Robbie Duschinsky): “Gendered bodies: institutions, sexbinarism and the experiences of gender minority groups within health and education systems.”
member of jury, PhD registration (with written report), 27 June 2017
University of Cambridge, Sociology Department
Rachell Sanchez, PhD in sociology (supervisor Monica Moreno): ‘Eugenics in Mexico.’
faculty advisor and 1st progress report examination for PhD registration (with written report), 22 June 2016
University of Cambridge, Sociology Department
Katie Hammond, PhD in sociology (supervisor Sarah Franklin)
‘What money can buy: eggs transactions in Canada.’
internal examiner (with written reports before and after the viva), 31 March 2016
Université Paris-Nanterre
Marie-Laure Schick, PhD Lettres et sciences humaines (co-supervisors J.P. Chaumeil/Paris & I. Rossi, Unil): ‘Une délicate rencontre entre savoirs autochtones et experts. Enjeux des politiques interculturelles dans le domaine de la prévention de la violence à l’égard des femmes kichwa en Amazonie équatoriale.’
jury member (with written reports before and after the viva), 8 October 2015
PhD juries pre-2015: list under construction
University of Loughborough, Department of Politics, History and International Relations
Jarmila Rajas, PhD in political science (supervisor Moya Lloyd): ‘State racist governmentality: a Foucaultian discourse theoretical analysis of Finnish Immigration policy’.
external examiner (with written report), 11 June 2014
Cambridge University, Department of politics and international studies
Marjan Radjavi, PhD in international relations (co-supervisors Glen Rangwala & Markus Gehring) : ‘Gender, international law and justice: reworking the assumptions about change in Iran.’
Internal Examiner (with written report), PhD Viva: 14 October 2013
Université de Lausanne
Manuela Honegger, PhD en science politique
2013
Université de Lausanne
Lorraine Odier Da Cruz, PhD en sciences sociales (dir. de thèse V. Mottier)
2013
Université de Lausanne
Rose-Anne Foley, PhD en anthropologie
2010/2012
Cambridge University, Sociology Departement
Robbie Duschinsky, PhD in sociology (dir. de thèse V. Mottier): ‘The politics of purity: new social theoretical reflections on the sexualisation of childhood in Britain.’
January 2012
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHEES), Paris + Université de Lausanne (co-tutelle)
Yannis Papadaniel (co-supervisors Alban Bensa + Ilario Rossi)
jury member (with written report), EHEES: 2011
University of Geneva, Department of Political Science
Léa Sgier, PhD in Political Science
“Parliamentary debates on gender quotas in Switzerland and France (1998-2000). A discourse analysis.”
jury member
public defence (with written report): 4 March 2010
Université de Lausanne
Thierry Delessert, PhD in political science
jury member, 2010
Université de Lausanne
Rose-Ann Foley
2010
University of Cambridge, Geography Department
Rory Gallagher, PhD in social geography (supervisor Gerry Kearns): ‘Queering sex tourism: the geographies of gay, transgender and female sex tourism in South-East Asia in the time of HIV.’
internal examiner (with written report), February 2008
University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy
Natalia Gerodetti, PhD in sociology and social policy (External co-supervisor V. Mottier): ‘Modernising nation, modernising sexuality: the regulation of homosexuality in the codification of Swiss criminal law.’
2002
Véronique Mottier 