Léa Renard
VITA
Léa Renard is a habilitation candidate at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Heidelberg University, and Early Career Fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg. From 2023 to 2025, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology (Chair for Empirical Macrosociology). Prior to that, she conducted her research within the framework of the DFG-funded project “Forced labour as a shifting global category: classification, comparison and meanings of work in the International Labour Organization (ILO), 1919 – 2017” at the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin (2020-2022). She holds a binational PhD degree from the University of Potsdam and Université Grenoble Alpes (2019). Her research interests lie in the historical sociology of knowledge production, especially statistical categorization of work and migration.
She is co-investigator of the DFG-funded Scientific Network “Global Cultures of Enquête: Towards a Praxeology of Surveying (17th–21st Century)” (together with Martin Herrnstadt, University of Bremen).
Mutterinstitut:
Universität Freiburg/Universität Heidelberg
Research
Forschungsthemen
Historical sociology
Sociology of knowledge
Sociology of colonialism
Sociology of work
Research Project
DFG-funded Scientific Network “Global Cultures of Enquête: Towards a Praxeology of Surveying (17th–21st Century)” (coordination with Martin Herrnstadt, University of Bremen).
The international network aims to establish an interdisciplinary research agenda linking historical as well as social science through a praxeology of surveying. By collectively exploring global cultures of enquête, the network bridges research questions from (historical) sociology, the history of science and quantification, as well as colonial history.
Publications