Anne-Lise Dall’Agnola
Doctoral Student at Paris 8 University
Areas of Research
- Body sociology
- Military sociology
Dissertation Topic
Anne-Lise Dall’Agnola, Harmed Forces. Engaging one’s body through military service in France and the United States nowadays, Supervised by Dominique Memmi.
Summary:
“Empty sleeves” and “gueules cassées” (lit. “broken faces” or “broken gargoyles”), haunting figures of war violence, are often thought to belong to the past. But today societies continue to receive home service men and women affected by disfiguring injuries. However, the public image of the military, nature of warfare, and armed forces demographics, have changed, along with the societies for whom they fight. By comparing how war-injured soldiers are viewed by French and American societies since the turn of the 21st century, I intend to reveal the social stakes behind their sacrifice. To what extent and under which circumstances is it today socially acceptable to jeopardize one’s body for the Homeland?
Keywords : military sociology, comparative sociology, disfigurement, stigma, disabled veterans.
Publications
Published talks
2018, « Le soldat, le marin et l’aviateur : trois corps en campagnes », in Carpigo E., Gebel H., Gourinat V., Kefi N., Ludwig S. (dir.), Corps meurtris, beaux et subversifs. Réflexions transdisciplinaires sur les modifications corporelles, Nancy, Presses universitaires de Nancy - Editions Universitaires de Lorraine.
Book Reviews
- 2017, « Jeanne Teboul, Corps combattant. La production du soldat », Lectures (online), Les comptes rendus, posted on June 21st 2017. URL : http://lectures.revues.org/23130
- 2015, Compte rendu de : « Baptiste Brossard, Se blesser soi-même. Une jeunesse autocontrôlée, Paris : Alma éditeur, 2014 » Revue française de sociologie, vol.56, n°3, p.609-612
Communications
2019, « De biens résilients guerriers. Représentations institutionnelles des blessures en service des militaires français et américains au 21ème siècle » [Resilient Warriors. Institutional representations of service-connected injuries in French and American militaries in the 21st Century] , Colloque annuel de l’AEGES « Corps et guerre », Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France, December 20th 2019
2019, « Becoming a disabled veteran. A Comparison of the care systems and social representations of French and American disabled veterans since 2001 », 2019 Biennial International Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Reston, Virginia, États-Unis, November 9th 2019
2019, « "Gueules Cassées" : a discreet yet powerful veterans’ organization », Veterans: Enduring, Surviving, and Remembering War. An International Conference, US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, États-Unis, September 13th 2019
2016, Le soldat, le marin et l’aviateur : trois corps en campagnes [Soldier, Seaman and Aviator, the Bodies of three Campaigns], Colloque Corps meurtris, beaux, subversifs : réflexions transdisciplinaires sur les modifications corporelles, UMR7367 Dynamiques Européennes, Université de Strasbourg, France, April 29th 2016
2018, Des soldats sans violence? Les arguments du recrutement de l’armée de Terre et de l’US Army aujourd’hui [Soldiers without violence? Recruiting in nowadays’ French armée de Terre and US Army], Journées d’Études du CSU, La Chapelle Gauthier, France June 21st 2018
- 2019, Devenir blessé-e de guerre : sociologie d’un engagement par corps [Becoming a disabled veteran : a sociology of embodiment], Séminaire Jeunes Chercheur-euse-s Handicap(s) et Sociétés, EHESS, Paris, June 4th 2019
- 2018, Des soldats sans violence? Les arguments du recrutement de l’armée de Terre et de l’US Army aujourd’hui [Soldiers without violence? Recruiting in nowadays’ French armée de Terre and US Army], Seminar “Sociologie et Anthropologie des corps en transformation” [Sociology and Anthropology of transforming bodies], EHESS, Paris June 15th 2018.
2019, Coton C., 2017, Officiers: des classes en lutte sous l’uniforme, Marseille, Agone, Séminaire "Corps et Sciences Sociales”, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord / Cresppa-CSU / Université Paris 3 Panthéon Sorbonne, 4/10/2019
2019, Kinder J.M., 2015, Paying with their bodies: American war and the problem of the disabled veteran, Chicago ; London, The University of Chicago Press, Séminaire "Corps et Sciences Sociales”, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord / Cresppa-CSU, 12/04/2019
2018, Barthe Y., 2017, Les retombées du passé: le paradoxe de la victime, Paris, Seuil, Séminaire “Approches sociologiques des forces armées”, CESSP/Cresppa, Paris, 14/06/2018
2016, Delaporte F., Fournier E. et Devauchelle B. (dir.), 2010, La fabrique du visage. De la physiognomonie antique à la première greffe, Turnhout, Ed. Brepols, Séminaire "Corps et Sciences Sociales", Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, 5/02/2016
2015, Brossard B., 2014, Se blesser soi-même : Une jeunesse autocontrôlée, Paris, Alma, Séminaire "Corps et Sciences Sociales », Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, 6/02/2015
Other research activities
2018-ongoing, Organization assistant, séminaire "Corps et Sciences Sociales », Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord / Cresppa CSU
Teaching Experience
2022-2023, Enseignante contractuelle [contract teacher], Institut National Universitaire Champollion, Albi, France
2022, Teaching Assistant, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, Sciences Po, Paris, France
- Introduction to sociology (class taught by Pierre François), 16h
- Organizational societies (class taught by Emmanuel Lazega), 16h
2020-2021, Vacataire [non-salaried part-time teacher], Department of Sciences and Techniques of Physical Activities, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Valenciennes, France
- English for adapted physical activities, 90h
2018-2020, Attachée Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche [Temporary teaching and research assistant], Department of Sciences and Techniques of Physical Activities, Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, Valenciennes, France
- Histoire sociales des activités sportives [Social history of physical activities], 120h of lecture, 45h of remedial class
- English for adapted physical activities, 90h
- Remédiation en français [Remedial French], 36h
- Tutorat Projet Voltaire, [French Grammar and Spelling workshop], 15h
2015-2016, Monitrice [Teaching assistant], Department of Sociology, Université Paris 8 Vincennes St-Denis, St-Denis, France
- Méthodologie du Travail Universitaire [Freshmen College Methodology], 39h
- Tutorat Projet Voltaire, [French Grammar and Spelling workshop], 16h
Education
- Visting (predoctoral) Researcher, August 2016 - February 2018. Department of History, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A. Supervisor : Pr. Bruno Cabanes
- PhD in Sociology, (2015-ongoing). Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, Paris, France
- M.A. in Social Sciences, Summa Cum Laude, 2015. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
- B.A. in Sociology, Magna Cum Laude, 2013. Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- M.A. in Humanities, Summa Cum Laude, 2010. Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France
- B.A. in Communication Sciences, Magna Cum Laude, 2008. Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France
- Semester abroad in Cultural Studies and Communication, 2007
- The Hague School of European Studies, The Hague, Netherlands
Awards and scholarships
- 2017, Arthur King Peters Travel Grant Award
- 2016-2017, Fulbright Foreign Student Program Scholarship
- 2015-2018, PhD Scholarship Université Paris Lumières
- 2008-2009, Merit Scholarship, CROUS Aix-Marseille
