Romain Jaouen

Romain Jaouen is a temporary lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. He holds a master’s degree (2016) and a PhD (2025) in History from Sciences Po. He specializes in the history of gender and sexuality and the regulation of morality in 20th-century France.

His first published work, which received the 2016 Mnémosyne Prize for gender history 2016, explored the police surveillance of male sexualities in the interwar period. His PhD thesis (“Bad Mores: Homosexual Life(s) and Urban Regulations in Paris, 1919-1982”) takes a broader look at the regulation of queer social life and practices in Paris from the 1920s to the early 1980s. It shows the combined role of institutions and ordinary city dwellers (concierges, neighbors, hoteliers, passers-by, users, shopkeepers) in the regulation of everyday life. The thesis lies at the crossroads of social history, urban history, the history of normativity and the history of private life.

Romain Jaouen is currently pursuing his research on the regulation of sexual outcasts and morality in contemporary societies.

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