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Isabelle Ferreras

Isabelle Ferreras (born in Ottignies, Belgium, August 21, 1975) is a senior tenured fellow (maître de recherches) of the Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research Brussels. She is professor of sociology at the University of Louvain and a member of its Center for interdisciplinary research Democracy, Institutions and Subjectivity, which is a part of the Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain)in Belgium. Ferreras is also a senior research associate of [|the Labor and Worklife Program] , Harvard University. Ferreras also serves as academic coordinator of the Democracy, Cultures & Action Fund established by the University of Louvain in 2015. Her main research areas are the political sociology of work, the study of the firm, the study of capitalism, and democratic theory. Ferreras has proposed to establish a new field of study (2012, 2017) called the political theory of the firm, an interdisciplinary field of research that takes a critical approach to the current state of the economy and seeks to contribute to a version of democratic theory that embeds the economy. Since 2017, Ferreras has been a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (Technology and Society Class).

1.	Education and Early Career

Secondary education: from 1987 to 1988, Ferreras attended the Institut Saint-Boniface Parnasse in Brussels, and from 1993 to 1995 attended the Lycée Martin V in Louvain-la-Neuve. She completed her studies at the the University of Louvain in 1998. In 1997, Ferreras graduated summa cum laude with a bachelors’ degree (Licence) in sociology from UCLouvain. In 1999, Ferreras began her doctoral studies as an FNRS Doctoral Fellow (Aspirante), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fund_for_Scientific_Research at UCLouvain. In 2000, she spent a semester as a Visiting Scholar in the Sociology Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin–Madison. Ferreras decided to round out her background in sociology by studying both philosophy and political theory, and in 2003, was accepted to the MIT Political Science Department, where she graduated with a master of science in political science. Her supervisors were philosopher Joshua Cohen and political economist Michael Piore.In 2004, she completed her PhD in sociology at UCLouvain. Immediately afterward, she embarked on a post-doctoral research fellowship as a Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program working with economist Richard B. Freeman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Freeman ) to develop the US chapter of the Wage Indicator Foundation, and enrolled in the Harvard Law School’s Trade Union Program under Elaine Bernard’s leadership. Ferreras is a member of the Harvard TUP Class of 2005. From 2003 to 2005, Ferreras was also research affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. In 2007, she was appointed to a DAAD Chair for International Comparative Studies as a Guest Professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Bremen (Germany), where she stayed on as a Fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst.

In 2007 at age 32, Ferreras was selected for a tenured position as permanent researcher (chercheur qualifé) of the Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research (F.N.R.S.-F.R.S., Brussels)and associate professor of University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium, where she became a full professor since 2015. In 2017, Ferreras was elected the youngest female member of the Royal Academy of Belgium where she belongs to the Technology and Society Class.