Copyright

Marie Buscatto; Sari Karttunen; Mathilde Provansal;

Published On

2025-06-23

Page Range

pp. 197–200

Language

  • English

Print Length

4 pages

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Contributors

Marie Buscatto

(author)
Full Professor of Sociology at Pantheon-Sorbonne University

Marie Buscatto is a Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at IDHE.S (Paris 1—CNRS). She is a sociologist of work, gender and the arts, and a specialist in qualitative methods. Her current work focuses on gender inequalities in art worlds and prestigious professions, gender-based violence in the arts and the paradoxes of artistic work in Europe, North America and Japan. Her most recent publications in English include Women in Jazz. Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization (Routledge, 2021) and ‘Getting Old in Art. Revisiting the Trajectories of ‘Modest’ Artists’ (Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques, 2019). To find out more about her (more than) 160 publications, go to https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marie-Buscatto

Sari Karttunen

(author)
Senior Researcher at Center for Cultural Policy Research

Sari Karttunen, DSoc Sc, is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Cultural

Policy Research CUPORE in Helsinki. She is also a Visiting Researcher

at the University of the Arts Helsinki and holds the title of Adjunct

Professor in cultural policy at the University of Jyväskylä. Her expertise

lies in the sociology of artistic occupations and the analysis and critique

of cultural statistics and other knowledge bases used in cultural policy.

Currently, her research interests focus on diversity issues within cultural

policy. Sari is an active member of the Research Network on Sociology

of the Arts of the European Sociological Association, having served as

co-coordinator from 2017 to 2019 and coordinator from 2019 to 2021.

Mathilde Provansal

(author)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Mathilde Provansal is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of

Sociology of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany).

Her research concerns gender inequality and gender-based violence in

art schools and contemporary art. She published the monograph Artistes

mais femmes. Une enquête sociologique dans l’art contemporain (ENS Éditions,

2023), based on her dissertation on gender inequality in contemporary

art, which was awarded two prizes: the Valois prize 2020 from the French

Ministry of Culture, and the Louis Gruel prize from the Observatoire

National de la Vie Étudiante (National Student Life Observatory). She

has also published several articles, including ‘Precarious Professional

Identities. Women Artists and Gender Inequality within Contemporary

Art’ (L’Année Sociologique, 2024).