Nonna Mayer, Council Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF)

Nonna Mayer, Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF)
Council, 2007-09

Nonna Mayer belongs to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 1974. She is research professor at the Centre for political research of Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) and she teaches political sociology in the research master programme of Sciences Po “Politics and Societies in Europe”. Since 1991 she also is visiting professor at the Stanford Overseas Program in Paris. She received a B.A in public law from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, an M.A in Public Law from the University of Paris II, an MA and a PhD in political science from Sciences Po and she is a doctor honoris causa of the Free university of Brussels (ULB).

Her main fields of expertise are political and electoral sociology, right wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism. Her books include La boutique contre la gauche (Presses de Sciences Po, 1986),  Le Front national à découvert (Presses de Sciences Po, 1989-1996, with Pascal Perrineau), Les comportements politiques (Armand Colin, 1992), The French Voter Decides (University of Michigan Press,1993, with Daniel Boy), L’électeur a ses raisons (Presses de Sciences Po, 1997, with Daniel Boy), Ces Français qui votent Le Pen (Flammarion 2002), La démocratie à l’épreuve : une nouvelle approche de l’opinion des Français (Presses de Sciences Po, 2002, with Gérard Grunberg, Paul M. Sniderman), Le nouveau désordre électoral. Les leçons du 21 avril 2002 (Presses de Sciences Po, 2004, with Bruno Cautrès) and Extreme Right Activists in Europe. Through the Magnifying Glass (Routledge, 2006, with Bert Klandermans).
   
Her current research projects are about racism and anti-Semitism in France and in Europe, as expert for the annual survey on racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia of the French National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH), involved in the Racism and Xenophobia European Network (RAXEN) and member of the international Group Focused Enmity project (GFE).

She is on the editorial board of Patterns of Prejudice and on the advisory board of the Swiss Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, French Politics and International Journal of Conflict and Violence. Since 2005, she is president of the French Political Science Association. Her major aims are to strengthen cooperation between political science associations on both sides of the Atlantic, promote diversity and question the priorities of political science in the world of today.