Fabrice Boudjaaba appointed Director of CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences

The historian and demographer Fabrice Boudjaaba, who joined the CNRS in 2006, is the holder of an agrégation and a PhD in early modern and modern history defended in 2005 at l’université Paris-Sorbonne. He has been authorised to supervise research since 2019. A CNRS Senior Researcher at the Center for Historical Studies1 , his work primarily focuses on the evolution of family systems and the role of the family as the crucible for processes of reproduction and social mobility, as well as an economic unit driving the economic and social transformations of European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He explores these processes through subjects as varied as the functioning of Ancien Régime real estate markets; the relation individuals have to the land; processes of inheritance transmission; the relation to work; individual and family migrations; and the process by which populations establish themselves in territories.

Initially focusing on rural areas, his research subsequently expanded to urban areas and the Mediterranean space, and emphasises quantitative and serial approaches. He has published two individual books, edited or co-edited ten others, written nearly fifty articles and book chapters, and presented sixty communications in conferences and congresses. He has also served as the editor-in-chief of Annales de Démographie Historique since 2018.

As Deputy Scientific Director from 2016 to 2021, he was notably tasked with monitoring laboratories falling within the Early Modern and Modern Section (section 35, ex-33), in addition to interdisciplinarity and research infrastructure in the humanities and social sciences. He has served as Deputy Director of CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences since 2021.

• 1CNRS/École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales.