Anne Verjus

Anne Verjus is a Research Director at the CNRS (section 40: Politics, Power, Organization) and Director of the Triangle laboratory (UMR 5206) at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her work focuses on the social and political exclusion of women through marriage, motherhood, and familialism in France, Great Britain, and German-speaking countries. She explores historical forms of patriarchal domination and contemporary frameworks for emancipated motherhood.

• Education: IEP Grenoble (Political Sciences), DEA in Political Studies, PhD from EHESS (1997).
• Research Interests: History of women's suffrage, feminist utopianism, revolutionary-era family dynamics, political motherhood, and gendered citizenship.

Recent publications include Abolishing Patriarchy: The Feminist Utopia of James H. Lawrence (2025) and studies on 18th- and 19th-century gender politics. She actively organizes conferences on feminist history and political theory.

Grants: Co-lead of the ANR CONSENT project (2021–2025). Students: Supervising Jessica Blouin (PhD) and directing Margot Giacinti's thesis (defended 2023).