Frédérique Matonti

Frédérique Matonti (born August 29, 1958 ) is a French political scientist. She is a professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is an expert in the history of political philosophy, political parties, and gender studies.

Career Matonti attended the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres, from 1978 to 1983. She then completed an Agrégée in philosophy (fr) in 1985. In 1996, she graduated from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne with a doctorate in political science. Her thesis was entitled La Double illusion. "La Nouvelle Critique", une revue du pcf (1967-1980), and was conducted under the supervision of Évelyne Pisier. In 1999, she earned an Agrégée in political science (fr).

Matonti's work has been cited, or she has been interviewed, in news outlets like Le Monde, L'Est Républicain, CNN, Libération, France Culture, Le Parisien, and RFI.

Selected works Le comportement politique des Français, Colin (1998) Hérault de Séchelles ou Les infortunes de la beauté, La Dispute (1998) La démobilisation politique, La Dispute (2005) Intellectuels communistes : essai sur l'obéissance politique, La Nouvelle Critique, La Découverte (2005) Mai-juin 1968, Editions de l'Atelier/Éditions ouvrières, with Dominique Damamme, Boris Gobille and Bernard Pudal (fr) (2008) Sexes, genre et politique, Économica, with Catherine Achin, Lucie Bargel, Delphine Dulong, et al. (2007)

Selected awards Chevalier, Legion of Honor.