Stéphane Dufoix is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre (Sophiapol research center) and aSenior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He also teaches about world sociologies in the doctoral curriculum of the University of Paris and at the EHESS.  His research focus includes globalization theory, historical sociology of social science, sociological and historical semantics of concepts, and political sociology of national identity discourses. Among his mots recent publications : Le Tournant global des sciences sociales (co-edited with Alain Caillé), Paris, La Découverte, 2013 ; Pierre Bourdieu dans l’espace des disciplines (co-edited with Christian Laval), Nanterre, Presses universitaires de Paris-Nanterre, 2018. For about years, he has been the co-coordinator (with Eric Macé and now with Marie Salaün), of a seminar devoted to non-hegemonic world sociology that is being hosted by the Collège d'études mondiales (FMSH) and the GRIP (University of Paris). He's now working with Sébastien Mosbah-Natanson on a book about the World history of sociology that gathers a team of more than 50 authors (to be published at La Découverte in 2023).