PIERRE PÉNET. Graduate Institute Geneva, Department of International History Marie Curie MACROHIST Postdoctoral Fellow

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1 PIERRE PÉNET Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Department of International History Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, 1202 Genève CURRENT POSITION August Graduate Institute Geneva, Department of International History Marie Curie MACROHIST Postdoctoral Fellow EDUCATION & SciencesPo Paris Joint Ph.D. in Sociology (dissertation defended in November 2014) -Dissertation Title: Calculating and Governing Risk in Times of Crisis: the Role of Credit Ratings in Regulatory Reasoning and Legal Change (1930s s) -Committee: Bruce Carruthers (, primary advisor in the U.S.), Wendy Espeland (), Grégoire Mallard (Graduate Institute Geneva, rapporteur), Louis Chauvel (SciencesPo Paris, primary advisor in France), Olivier Borraz (SciencesPo Paris, président du jury), Michael Loriaux (Northwestern University, rapporteur) SciencesPo Paris M.A. in Sociology Political Sciences Institute of Rennes (IEP Rennes) B.A. in Sociology SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2014 Robert F. Winch Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer, For: Time of Crisis: An International Perspective on the Social and Political Consequences of the 2008 Financial Collapse, undergraduate-level course taught at 2014 Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Dissertation Research Award, AY Graduate Fellowship in Legal Studies, Center for Legal Studies, 2013 Robert F. Winch Prize for Best Student Paper Published, Northwestern University For: Prize & Price: The Turner Prize as a Valuation Device in the Contemporary Art Market, published in Poetics MacArthur Summer Research Grant, Sociology Department, Northwestern University Page 1 of 5

2 For: From Risk Models to Loan Contracts: Austerity as the Calculation of Austerity by Other Means, published in Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies. AY Fulbright Scholar in Sociology, U.S. Department of State 2010 Sociology Research Award, Sociology Department, Doctoral Fellowship ( Allocation ) French Ministry of Research 2005 Research Internship Grant, International Political Science Association PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES Pierre Pénet and Grégoire Mallard From Risk Models to Loan Contracts: Austerity as the Calculation of Austerity by Other Means. Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, 7, Pierre Pénet and Kangsan Lee Prize & Price: The Turner Prize as a Valuation Device in the Contemporary Art Market. Poetics, 43, BOOK CHAPTERS Pierre Pénet [forthcoming]. Rating Reports as Figuring Devices: How CRAs Build Scenarios of the Future, in Making Things Valuable, edited by Martin Kornberger, Oxford University Press. Pierre Pénet [forthcoming]. Prizing Contemporary Art, in Center and Periphery in the Field of Art, edited by Christophe Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, Valérie Knoll, and Ulf Wuggenig, Sternberg Press. Grégoire Mallard and Pierre Pénet Seeing Like a Credit Rating Agency: The constitution of Financial Uncertainties during the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis. Pp in Financial Crises: Identification, Forecasting and Effects on Transition Economies, edited by Cooper Hawthorne. New York: Nova Publishers. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Pierre Pénet [forthcoming]. Credit rating, signed entry for the Sage Encyclopedia of Corporate Reputation, edited by Craig E. Carroll, Sage Publications. Pierre Pénet [forthcoming]. Compte rendu pour Sociologie du Travail de l ouvrage : Michael Grenfell and Frédéric Lebaron (Eds) Bourdieu and Data Analysis, Oxford University Press. MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS / UNDER REVIEW The colonization of U.S financial regulation by credit ratings during the Interwar period ( ) in preparation for Administrative Science Quarterly -to be presented at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (March) and the Max Planck Institute (April/Cologne) Pollution rituals and the birth of financial regulation in the U.S. during the interwar period ( ) in preparation for American Journal of Sociology -to be presented at the Association française de sociologie (June/Paris) and SASE (June/London) «De l utilité de l ignorance dans la conduite de la politique monétaire en temps incertains : les leçons de la crise de la dette souveraine européenne» in preparation for Genèses -to be presented at the International Conference on Public Policy (July/Milan) Making public things with private instruments: modes of regulatory reliance on ratings ( s) Page 2 of 5

3 -to be presented at Colloque International Recherche & Régulation 2015 : «La théorie de la régulation à l épreuve des crises» (June/Paris) «Le pouvoir de la notation du crédit en jugement : les leçons d un procès historique» in preparation for Le Monde Diplomatique, April issue. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 2014 Prizing Contemporary Art. -Workshop: Art awards in contemporary art Sociology Department, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany 2014 Regulatory interventions following the stock market crash of 1929: a forbearance vs purification dilemma. -Seminar: The Stock Exchange and the Economy, Macroeconomics and Financial History (MACROHIST) network 2014 «Styles d'interventionnisme régulateur durant la Grande Dépression: le New Deal entre indulgence et purification.» -Séminaire interne Institut P. Université de Genève 2014 Anticipatory Knowledge as an Instrument of Market Governance: Examples from the Recent Debt Crisis. -International History Department Colloquium -Anthropology and Sociology Department Colloquium (with Grégoire Mallard) 2014 Governing markets with legal fictions: Credit ratings and austerity programs during the Greek sovereign debt crisis ( ). -Doctoral Max Planck-Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, Paris The Invention of Regulatory Reliance on Ratings: Calculative Governance and Anti-Metrology Resistance during the Interwar Period. -Conference: Law and Globalization in a Comparative Perspective: The Interwar versus the Post-Cold War Periods 2013 Seeing Like a Rating Agency: the Constitution of Financial Uncertainties during the Greek Sovereign Crisis. -Conference: Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada Inside the Shark Tank: The Turner Prize and the Valuation of Contemporary British Artists. -Culture & Society Evanston, IL, USA 2012 «Crises Financières, crises de l information financière : Le cas de la notation de la dette souveraine». -Conférence : «Approches Pluridisciplinaires de l École Normale Supérieure, Paris Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling: Recent Transatlantic Developments in the Geometric School of Data Analysis. (With Brigitte le Roux and Frédéric Lebaron.) -Statistical Evanston, IL, USA Page 3 of 5

4 2011 Fields and Markets of Cultural Production: Geometric Data Analysis in the French Tradition as a Tool for Representing Complex Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany 2010 The Blending of Taste: The Case of the French Field of Film Production. -European Sociological Association Midterm University of Surrey, England -Conference: 30 years after INHA, Paris 2010 Manufacturing Funeral Rituals in a Secular Age: Ethnographic Analysis in Two Funeral Homes in France. -Ethnographic Evanston, IL, USA «La valorisation des engagements associatifs sur le marché du travail: le cas de la Junior Entreprise chez les étudiants d HEC». -Research Workshop Educ-Elites 2008 Cultural Capital and Comparative Approaches: Incommensurability or Common Repertoires? The Case of France and the United States. -Social Stratification Seminary 2008 Middlebrow Art and Strategies of Distinction: The case of Cinema Attendance in Great Britain. -Statistics in Social Science Seminary 2007 «Les pratiques résidentielles et éducatives en banlieue parisiennes. Le cas de Bondy et d Épinay». -Research Workshop Educ-Elites TEACHING AY Feb-Jun 2011 Feb-Jun 2009 Times of Crisis: An International Perspective on the Social and Political Consequences of the 2008 Financial Collapse -, Instructor, International Studies, Undergraduate Level Introduction to Sociology -SciencesPo Paris, Instructor (with Étienne Ollion), Bachelor Level Socio-Political Cleavages in Europe -SciencesPo Paris, Teaching assistant, Bachelor Level RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AY AY AY Research assistant for Marc Flandreau for MACROHIST, a Marie Curie Initial Training Action dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary expertise in both macroeconomics and financial history Principal organizer of statistical workshops for the diffusion of the French school of geometric data analysis. Workshops held in University of Lüneburg (Germany) and. Research assistant for Educ-Elites, a SciencesPo-based research group dedicated to the study of the reproduction of elites within the French education system Page 4 of 5

5 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OUTREACH Reviewer for the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Poetics, etc. Member of the Fulbright Commission recruitment committee Member of the SciencesPo international admission jury Member of the American Sociological Association (Sections: Comparative and Historical Sociology, Culture, and Economic Sociology), the Law and Society Association, and the Economic History Association. Recent interviews with Radio Télévision Suisse (Le Journal du Matin), and France Culture (l Atelier du Pouvoir) on various topics (credit rating agencies, the financial crisis, Syriza, etc.) LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMING English and French, fluent Spanish (reading and conversation) Italian, passive Statistics and software: SPSS, STATA, SPAD REFERENCES Bruce Carruthers John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, Director of Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, and Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology 1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL Wendy Espeland Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology 1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL Marc Flandreau Professor of International Economics and International History Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, 1211 Genève Galya Ruffer Professor of Political Science, Director of International Studies Department of International Studies 2010 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL Page 5 of 5