Karine Clément | S26 Tue Fri
Karine Clément
Ph.D. in Sociology
Karine Clément is an independent researcher based in Paris, who has a long experience of working as a
professor and researcher in Russian Academic institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Her last
position in Russia was Associate Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of
Saint-Petersburg State University. From 2014 till 2018 she was Director of the Andrew Gagarin Center
for Civil Society and Human Rights.
After 25 years in Russia, she came back in France in 2019 and had the opportunity to study the Yellow
Vests movement in her native region in North-East France. Since 2022 she has distanced herself from
the academic world but is still monitoring the situation in her field.
She is the author and editor of five books in French and Russian dedicated to social mobilization
dynamics, as well as many academic papers, including in high-ranking international journals. She is
highly concerned by grassroots activism and civic engagement.