Margot Giacinti and Sarah Jean-Jacques are joint recipients of this PhD thesis award.
Gender Institute – Dissertation Award
To support early-career researchers and encourage the dissemination of knowledge in the field of gender and sexuality, the Gender Institute established a PhD thesis Award in 2012. The award is open to PhD graduates who have defended a dissertation focusing primarily on issues of gender and sexuality at a partner institution of the Gender Institute.
The ceremony will take place at the Condorcet campus on December 10, 2025.
Margot Giacinti
Margot Giacinti is a co-winner of the 2024 PhD Thesis Award from the Institut du Genre for her thesis titled “When No Men Die. A Socio-History of Femicide in France (1791–1976)” (political science), supervised by Anne Verjus and defended at ENS de Lyon on November 27, 2023. More information on the thesis defense
Margot Giacinti is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lille but remains affiliated with the Triangle laboratory. She is involved in the research project “Gender, Feminisms, Politics.”
In 2020, she co-published a book supported by Triangle and LabEx Comod: Théoriser en féministe (Hermann), following a three-day conference, one session of which took place at the École.
She is currently working on a book to be published by Divergences in February 2025 titled Le Commun des mortelles. Faire face au féminicide.
Her dissertation
This political science dissertation, titled “When No Men Die: A Socio-History of Femicide in France (1791–1976),” aims, on the one hand, to trace the evolution of interpretations of the murder of women prior to the emergence of the concept of femicide. On the other hand, drawing on court cases from 1791 to 1976, it examines the characteristics of murders of women, discussing what would allow them to be categorized—or not—as femicides. She concludes that femicide did not wait to be named to exist: this crime results from a desire for gendered targeting, stems from a logic of male predation and punishment of certain women’s agency, and manifests as the exercise of extreme violence aimed at keeping women in a subordinate position.