About
Sociologist and historian, researcher at the CNRS (European Center for Sociology and Political Science, CESSP, EHESS-Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne). He is currently working on the comparative history of mass violence in the 20th century.
Most viewed articles
Are the civil wars of the 16th century the future of mass violence studies? (Regarding: Jérémie Foa, Survivre. Une histoire des guerres de Religion, Seuil, 2024)
In Genèses (2025/4 N° 141)
Does One Need a Reason to Kill?
On Several Explanations about the Violence of War
In Genèses (2003/4 No 53)
Elementary Forms of Collective Effervescence or the Supposed Mob Mentality
In Revue française de science politique (2001/5 Vol. 51)
Survey Respondents' Habitus
Questions without Answers; Presence of Institutions
In Politix (2012/4 No 100)
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Articles
Are the civil wars of the 16th century the future of mass violence studies? (Regarding: Jérémie Foa, Survivre. Une histoire des guerres de Religion, Seuil, 2024)
In Genèses (2025/4 N° 141)
Observing (oneself) as a national Socialist
On: “A Third Reich, as I See It”: Politics, Society and Private Life in the Diaries of Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, Janosch Steuwer, translated from German by Bernard Heise, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2023, 649 p. (original edition »Ein Drittes Reich, wie ich es auffasse«. Politik, Gesellschaft und privates Leben in Tagebüchern 1933-1939, Göttingen, Wallstein, 2017)
In Genèses (2025/3 N° 140)
Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole and Alberto Giordano (eds.). Geographies of the Holocaust. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2014, X-246 p.
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2018/4 73rd year)
Bypassing Birkenau, Autumn 1942 : Re-examining the diary of SS-Doctor Johann Paul Kremer in Auschwitz
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2018/3 No 139)
Social Encounters in the French Trenches
In French Politics, Culture & Society (2018/2 Vol. 36)
Do Doctors in Political Science Believe in Their Academic Degrees?
Dynamic Mapping of French Political Science PHDS
In Revue française de science politique (2017/1 Vol. 67)
The Vicissitudes of Interdisciplinarity
Genèses and the French Social Sciences
- By Julien Boelaert,
- Nicolas Mariot,
- Étienne Ollion
- et al.
In Genèses (2015/3 No 100-101)
A Celebration of the Introduction
In Genèses (2015/3 No 100-101)
“I think they don’t hate me.”
Expressions of Hostility in Written Correspondences during World War I
In Genèses (2014/3 No 96)
Whom Do We Write History With?
The Case of Soldiers’ Accounts in French Historiography of the Great War
In Genèses (2014/2 No 95)
Different Regions, Unequal Casualties? Spatial Analysis of First World War Deaths and its Problems
A Comment on "Economic Geography of First World War Deaths in France"
- By André Loez
- and Nicolas Mariot
In Revue économique (2014/3 Vol. 65)
Survey Respondents' Habitus
Questions without Answers; Presence of Institutions
In Politix (2012/4 No 100)
Why Did Students Die en Masse in 1914–1918?: A Structural Explanation
In Pôle Sud (2012/1 No 36)
The Crowd as a Topic of Discussion?
In Hypothèses (2011/1 14)
The Collective Manufacturing of Unanimity: Explaining the Parliamentary Suicides of March 1933 and July 1940
On the Subject of Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdication by Yvan Ermakoff (2008)
In Sociologie (2010/3 Vol. 1)
Savoir-faire
In Genèses (2008/4 No 73)
What Is “Civic Enthusiasm”?
The Historiography of Political Festivities in France since 1789
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2008/1 63rd)
Identification, Self-Identification: Census, Self-Declarations and Persecutions of the Jewish Population of Lens (1940 – 1945)
- By Nicolas Mariot
- and Claire Zalc
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2007/3 No 54-3)
Homage to one's own and return to the sources
The pilgrimages of the presidents to their old fiefdoms
In Politix (2007/1 No 77)
The Archives of Saint Besse: Conditions and Reception of Direct Surveys in the Durkheimian Mileu
In Genèses (2006/2 No 63)
The Two Types of Social Capital
The Relational Structure of Characteristics of Doctoral Thesis Juries and Hiring in the Field of Political Science in France
- By Olivier Godechot
- and Nicolas Mariot
In Revue française de sociologie (2004/2 Vol. 45)
Does One Need a Reason to Kill?
On Several Explanations about the Violence of War
In Genèses (2003/4 No 53)
Elementary Forms of Collective Effervescence or the Supposed Mob Mentality
In Revue française de science politique (2001/5 Vol. 51)
Jubilant Crowds and Popular Support for Marshall Petain
Do Images of Petain’s Official Trips Reflect Shifts in Opinion?
In Sociétés & Représentations (2001/2 No 12)
Morphology of Behaviors and Induction of Beliefs
Remarks on the Circularity of Integrating Functions of Rites
In Hypothèses (1997/1 1)