Alice Daquin Awarded 2025 PUCA/APERAU Thesis Prize for Outstanding Research on Urban Margins

We are very happy to announce that Alice Daquin,  Anthropology and Sociology Department recent graduate, has been awarded the Grand Prize of the 2025 PUCA/APERAU on the City for her recently defended thesis.

Her thesis, entitled ““L’intermédiation aux marges de l’État. Une ethnographie du maternalisme politique dans un quartier populaire de Marseille”,  supervised by Professor Dennis Rodgers,  explores through a rich ethnographic approach, how political maternalism operates as a form of intermediation between residents and the state in marginalized urban contexts.

The Prix de thèse sur la ville PUCA/APERAU, jointly organized by the Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture (PUCA) and the Association pour la Promotion de l’Enseignement et de la Recherche en Aménagement et Urbanisme (APERAU Internationale), recognizes exceptional doctoral research written in French that offers innovative perspectives on contemporary urban challenges and informs public policy and urban practice.

This recognition highlights the importance of interdisciplinary and field-based research in understanding the complexities of urban life and governance.

"A valuable opportunity for a young researcher to share her work and contribute to advancing public debate on these crucial issues for the social and political life of our cities and working-class neighborhoods." A. Daquin

Congratulations to Dr Alice Daquin on this remarkable achievement!