Sylvie Tissot
Professor of Political Science, University of Paris-8; Activist and Documentary Filmmaker
Sylvie Tissot is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris-8. Her research focuses on the intersection of class analysis and urban studies. Her Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston’s South End (Verso, 2015) reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them. Tissot has conducted another field-based research project on so-called ‘gay-friendly’ heterosexuals in France and the United States (Gayfriendly, Polity, 2023). She is also a founder of the collective Les Mots Sont Importants and engages in debates on feminism, race, and religion.