10 Facts About Sylvie Tissot

Sylvie Tissot is a French sociologist, activist and documentary filmmaker.

Sylvie Tissot is a professor of Political Science at University of Paris-8 and a founder of the collective Les Mots Sont Importants.

Sylvie Tissot began her career as an assistant professor at University of Strasbourg and now serves as a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis Paris-8, directing the "Discrimination, Diversity and Representations" track in Master's Program in Political Science.

Sylvie Tissot has been a Fulbright Scholar as well as a visiting scholar at NYU and Harvard University.

Sylvie Tissot argues that a view of social ills as localized in at-risk neighborhoods replaced systemic economic analysis in French public policy.

Sylvie Tissot focuses particularly on the ambivalent tool of "diversity", detailing the central role this principle played as a group of progressive upper-middle-class residents established themselves as a local elite in the formerly working-class neighborhood.

Sylvie Tissot is a member of the Cultures et Societes Urbaines and Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris units at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and serves on the editorial board of leading social science journal Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, founded in 1975 by Pierre Bourdieu.

In 2001, Sylvie Tissot founded the activist collective Les Mots Sonts Importants with Pierre Tevanian and the lmsi.

Sylvie Tissot stands for equal rights to marriage and parenthood between homosexuals and heterosexuals.

In 2015, Sylvie Tissot released two documentaries she directed with her sister, curator and filmmaker Florence Sylvie Tissot: Je ne suis pas feministe, mais.