School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) is one of the most selective and prestigious social sciences Grandes écoles in Paris, France.The Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales

EHESS was originally a department of the École pratique des hautes études, founded in 1868 to train academic researchers. It became an independent institution in 1975. Today, its research covers the fields of economics and finance, cognitive sciences, humanities, and politics, such as the sciences, applied mathematics and statistics, development studies, sociology, anthropology, history, musicology, and the philosophy of the social sciences.L’EHESS, une grande école ouverte aux réfugiés

 Notable Teacher 
 Roland Barthes, French philosopher
 Michel Chodkiewicz, French author and a scholar of Sufism
 Marc Ferro, French historian
 Gérard Genette, French literary theorist
 Jacques Mehler, Spanish-born French-American influential cognitive psychologist
 Pierre Nora, French historian
 Alain Touraine, French sociologist

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Category:Universities in Paris
Category:1947 establishments in France