11 Facts About Margaret Archer

Margaret Archer was a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Margaret Archer is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach.

On 14 April 2014, Archer was named by Pope Francis to succeed former Harvard law professor and US Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and served in this position until her retirement on 27 March 2019.

Margaret Archer studied at the University of London, graduating BSc in 1964 and PhD in 1967 with a thesis on The Educational Aspirations of English Working Class Parents.

Margaret Archer was a lecturer at the University of Reading from 1966 to 1973.

Margaret Archer was one of the most influential theorists in the critical realist tradition.

Margaret Archer was a trustee of the Centre for Critical Realism.

Margaret Archer supervised a number of PhD students, some of whom went on to contribute towards the substantive development of critical realism in the social sciences, including Robert Margaret Archer, author of Education Policy and Realist Social Theory, Sean Creaven, author of Marxism and Realism, and Justin Cruickshank, author of Realism and Sociology.

Margaret Archer discussed morphogenetic social theory, structure agency and culture, and her later work on the morphogenic society in a useful interview in the Journal of Critical Realism.

Margaret Archer accused Sanders of a "monumental discourtesy", claiming he sought to politicize his attendance after having lobbied for an invitation to the conference, failing to notify her office.

Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the Chancellor of the academy, and senior to Margaret Archer, took issue with Margaret Archer's version of events.