Camille Mazé

Camille Mazé holds a PhD in Social Sciences with a major in political studies from EHESS / ENS. After working in environmental science laboratories, she obtained her HDR (a post-doctoral French qualification allowing the holder to supervise doctoral theses) in environmental science in 2020 at the University of La Rochelle's research centre LIENSs.  She joined the CEVIPOF in 2024.

Since 2015, she has been a research fellow in political science at the CNRS in section 40 and interdisciplinary commission 52. Prior to this, she lectured in political science at the University of Brest. Her thesis was awarded the Prix Pierre Pflimlin for the best thesis on the building of Europe in France and Germany. Her HDR (a post-doctoral French qualification allowing the holder to supervise doctoral theses) thesis was also included in the prize.

Camille Mazé's work focuses on the analysis and transformation of how seas and oceans are governed, critical analysis of natural resource management and, more broadly, the identification of socio-political levers and obstacles to transformation towards sustainability in the context of global change. As an interdisciplinary socio-anthropologist of politics, she has extensive experience of collaboration with the life and earth sciences, and also with the hard sciences.

Drawing on these varied perspectives, she founded and leads the Collectif Chercheurs sans frontières – the APOLIMER International Research Network, (CNRS/INSHS) in collaboration with the universities of Hawaii, Ottawa and Vancouver. She works with the CEVIPOF Overseas Chair to further her research on marine and ultra-marine territories.

camille.maze@sciencespo.fr