Elisa Klüger

KLÜGER, Elisa

ORCID: 0000-0002-2375-8565

Current position

Since 2025 - Maîtresse de conférences (tenured assistant professor) – Faculty of Economy and Management Laboratory of Economics and Sociology of Work – Aix-Marseille University – France.

Since 2022 - Associated researcher – Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning – São Paulo, Brazil. Previous positions

Previous positions

2022-2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Economy and Sociology of Work, National Center for Scientific Research – Aix-Marseille University (LEST, CNRS- AMU) – France. Supervisor: Claire Bidart.

02/2022-03/2022: Data analysis and article writing for the ANR research projet: "VICO, La vie en confinement". Laboratoire d'Économie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST, CNRS-AMU).

2018-2019 Postdoctoral visiting research fellow at Princeton University – United States of America (12 months). Supervisor: Jeremy Adelman.

2017-2021 Individual postdoctoral fellow at the International Postdoctoral Program of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) – Brazil. Supervisor: Alvaro Augusto Comin.

Education

2014-2015 : PhD student mobility at the University of California – Berkeley – United States of America (7 months). Supervisor: Marion Fourcade.

2012-2013 : PhD student mobility at the University of Picardie Jules Verne – France (6 months). Supervisor: Frédéric Lebaron.

2011-2016 : Doctorat direct en Sociologie – Département de Sociologie de l’Université de São Paulo. Thèse : « Méritocratie de liens : genèses et reconfigurations de l’espace des économistes au Brésil » (en portuguais). Directrice : Prof. Sylvia Garcia Gemignani

2006-2010 : Licence en Relations Internationales – Université de São Paulo

Language skills

I collect data, publish, and present my research in Portuguese, French, English, and Spanish.

Academic supervision

Co-supervision (with Mathieu Génois) of the PhD student Gabriel Maurial, at the Theoretical Physics Center, CNRS-AMU. Dissertation in sociophysics analyzing the social structures and temporal network dynamics from datasets of face-to-face interactions of scientists. 

Supervision of a 5-month visiting research stay at the LEST of the Master student Guilherme Olimpio Fagundes, from the Sociology Department of the University of São Paulo, studying gender effects in personal networks of entrepreneurs.

Co-supervision (with Alvaro Comin) of the Master’s student Heloísa Rosa Pinheiro de Castro, at the Department of Sociology of the University of São Paulo. Thesis: “Chicago Oldies? A comparative study of the institutionalization, socialization and performance of Brazilian and Chilean economists trained at the University of Chicago” (206 pages, in Portuguese). Best Brazilian master’s thesis in Sociology prize attributed by the National Association of Postgraduate Research in Social Sciences, 2023.

Fields of research:

Social science methodologies: social network analysis, multiple correspondence analysis, database construction and analysis, interviews and biographical analysis, archival data processing and analysis, mixed methods.

Sociology of science: economics and social sciences in Latin America, international circulation of scientists and knowledge, sociology of economics.

Sociology of economics: development banks, sociology of economists, economic bureaucracy, public policies for the economy, and development.

Sociology of migration: international circulation, migration networks and exile. 

Sociology of elites: economic and intellectual elites and state bureaucracies.

Organization of special issues in peer-reviewed journals:

1. SERINO, M.; ROSSIER, T; KLÜGER, E. et ÉLOIRE, F. (2025). Mapping relational structures in culture. Poetics, 110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102005.
2. BENZ, P.; MORIN, J. G.; KLÜGER, E. et ROSSIER, T. (2024) International Circulations and inequalities in the Social Sciences Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 8(1-2). 10.7146/serendipities.v8i1-2.144872.

Publication of articles in peer-reviewed journals:

1. SERINO, M. ; ROSSIER, T. ; KLÜGER, E. ; ELOIRE, F. (2025). Mapping relational structures in culture. Poetics, 110 :1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102005
2. BIDART, C.; BOZOULS, L.; JOUBERT, L.; KLÜGER, E.; PEREZ, P.; et TUCCI, I. (2024). Imbriquer les méthodes pour comprendre la dégradation des relations interpersonnelles en temps de crises. Revue Française de Sociologie, 65(1-2) : 91-128. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.651.0091.
3. BENZ, P.; MORIN, J. G.; KLÜGER, E. et ROSSIER, T. (2024) International Circulations and inequalities in the Social Sciences: an introduction. Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 8(1-2): 1–19. 10.7146/serendipities.v8i1-2.144872.
4. KLÜGER, E. et GUIMARÃES, J. I. D. (2024) Circulação internacional e reconfigurações da noção de excelência no mercado do vinho: aportes de uma etnografia histórica, relacional e multidimensional. Revista Pós Ciências Sociais, 21(2): 276–288. https://doi.org/10.18764/2236-9473v21n2.2024.13
5. KLÜGER, E.; MORIN, J. G. et ROSSIER, T. (2023). The first School of Latin American Economic Studies for Graduates (ESCOLATINA) between “autochthonous” and international logics (1956-1964). Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines, 42: 49-84. https://doi.org/10.4000/rhsh.8086 
6. KLÜGER, E.; WANDERLEY, S. & BARBOSA, A. F. (2022). The CEPAL-BNDE Center and the building of a generation of intellectuals engaged in planning the Brazilian development. CEPAL Review,136: 133-154. https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48044 
7. KLÜGER, E. (2021). Celso Furtado: por uma Ciência Econômica iconoclasta e inconformista. Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 78: 66-85. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v1i78p66-85 
8. KLÜGER, E. (2020). Celso Furtado: um economista com lentes de literato. Revista Estudos Avançados, 34(100): 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0103-4014.2020.34100.016 
9. KLÜGER, E. et KRON, L. V. H. (2019). Por uma sociologia da economia de cunho etnográfico e histórico: Entrevista com Marie France Garcia-Parpet. Tempo social, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2019.155376 
10. KLÜGER, E. (2018). Mario Henrique Simonsen e Antonio Delfim Netto: Socializações Desiguais, Carreiras Análogas, Modalidades Díspares de Exercício do Poder. Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais, 61: 301-339. https://doi.org/10.1590/001152582018161 
11. KLÜGER, E. (2018). Mapping the inflections in the policies of the Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank during the nineties and two thousands within social spaces and networks. Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung, 43: 274-302. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.274-302 
12. KLÜGER, E. (2018). Análise de correspondências múltiplas: fundamentos, elaboração e interpretação. Revista Brasileira de Informação Bibliográfica em Ciências Sociais - BIB, 86(2): 68-97. DOI: 10.17666/bib8604/2018 https://bibanpocs.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/452/430 
13. KLÜGER, E. (2017). Circulations périphériques : les effets sur l’espace politique brésilien de l’exil des intellectuels de gauche au Chili entre 1964 et 1973.Revue internationale des études du développement, 230: 29-56. DOI: 10.3917/ried.230.0029 https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-des-etudes-du-developpement-2017-2-page-29.html 
14. KLÜGER, E. (2017). Espaço social e redes: contribuições metodológicas à sociologia das elites. Tempo social, 29(3): 83-110. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2017.125961 
15. KLÜGER,E.(2015).Construindoumaburocraciaeconômicadeexcelência:concursosdeseleçãoparaoBancoNacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), de 1955 a 2012. Plural: revista do programa de pós-graduação em sociologia, 22: 81-114 https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2015.112451 
16. KLÜGER, E. (2015). A contraposição das noções de técnica e política nos discursos de uma elite burocrática. Revista de Sociologia e Política, 23: 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-987315235505 
17. KLÜGER, E. (2014). Técnicos e políticos nos primeiros anos do BNDE. Cadernos do Desenvolvimento, 9: 59-81. http://www.cadernosdodesenvolvimento.org.br/ojs-2.4.8/index.php/cdes/article/view/124/127 
18. KLÜGER, E. (2011). As Sociologias da Ciência Econômica. Revista Brasileira de Informação Bibliográfica em Ciências Sociais - BIB, 72: 101-116. https://bibanpocs.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/361/345  

Book chapters:

1. KLÜGER, E. (2024). The Brazilian National Development Bank’s public policy examined through multiple correspondence analysis and social network analysis. In: DUBOIS, Vincent (Ed.). Bringing Bourdieu''s Theory of Fields to Critical Policy Analysis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 37-56. Table des matières : https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/bringing-bourdieu-s-theory-of-fields-to-critical-policy-analysis-9781803923994.html 
2. KLÜGER, E. (2022). L’espace de la politique économique au Brésil: analyse des correspondances multiples et analyse de réseaux. In : DUBOIS, Vincent (Ed.). Les structures sociales de l’action publique. Analyser les politiques publiques avec la sociologie des champs. Vulaines sur Seine: Éditions du Croquant: 59-86. Table des matières : https://editions-croquant.org/action-publique/876-les-structures-sociales-de-laction-publique-analyser-les-politiques-publi ques-avec-la-sociologie-des-champs.html
3. KLÜGER, E. (2021). Apresentação. In: BOURDIEU, Pierre. O Desencantamento do Mundo: Estruturas Econômicas e Estruturas Temporais. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva. Table des matières : https://editoraperspectiva.com.br/produtos/o-desencantamento-do-mundo-pierre-bourdieu/
4. KLÜGER, E. (2021). Paths of international circulation: how do economists and economic knowledge flow? In : Maesse, J. et al. (Ed.). Power and Influence of Economists. London: Routledge, 248-265. Livre complet : https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/47581/9781000222234.pdf
5. KLÜGER, E. (2020). A contraposição das noções de técnica e política nos discursos de uma elite burocrática. In: Igor Gastal Grill; Eliana Tavares dos Reis. (Ed.). Estudos de elites e formas de dominação. 1ed. São Leopoldo: EDUFMA, 244-277. Livre complet : https://ba9efab709.cbaucdnwnd.com/6c9ac9faa26db6de06742654852ebd5e/200000093-32fff33001/Estudos%20de%20 elites%20e%20formas%20de%20domina%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20-%20E-BOOK.pdf 
6. HEY, A. P. et KLÜGER, E. (2017). “Esprit de corps” et “Noblesse d’état (la): grandes écoles et esprit de corps.” In: CATANI, Afrânio et al. (Ed.). Vocabulário Bourdieu. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Editora, 179-181 et 277-281. Table des matières : https://grupoautentica.com.br/autentica/livros/vocabulario-bourdieu/1518 

PhD Dissertation :

KLÜGER, Elisa. Meritocracia de laços: gênese e reconfigurações do espaço dos economistas no Brasil. 855p. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia). São Paulo: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras, Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, 2017.

https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-06022017-113838/publico/2017_ElisaKluger_VCorr.pdf