Christelle Avril

Christelle Avril is a Lecturer in Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), affiliated with the Maurice Halbwachs Center (CMH), LabEx Tepsis, Convergences Migration Institute, and EUR GSST. She specializes in the sociology of service relations, focusing on gender, class, and migration within domestic and public service employment.

• Doctorate in Sociology (EHESS, 2007)
• Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2024)
• Agrégation de Sciences économiques et sociales (1999)

Her research explores the ethics of free work in service employment, using ethnographic and statistical methods. Key projects include studies on medical secretaries in public hospitals and international networks on subordinate labor.

She supervises PhD and Master’s students in sociology and migration studies, and has co-edited journals like Sociologie du travail and Sociétés contemporaines. Her work critiques the naturalization of care work and examines labor precarity in domestic and healthcare sectors.