Curriculum Vitae
Matthieu Kwasniuk
PhD Candidate (2024–2027) — Université Paris Dauphine–PSL
Project Mananger, HIMO Project
My research examines the institutionalization of management in twentieth-century United States, with particular attention to managerial learned societies (e.g., the Academy of Management, the Society for the Advancement of Management, and the American Management Association) and the ways they helped produce, legitimate, and circulate managerial knowledge and practices.
My dissertation, “Representing to control: a historico-ethnographic analysis of American management learned societies in the 20th century”, combines archival research with a historico-ethnographic and genealogical approach to reconstruct institutional dynamics, scientific controversies, and actor configurations.
Within the HIMO project, I contribute to large-scale archival corpus building (~200,000 pages) and the development of historico-algorithmic tools (OCR/HTR, semantic indexing, lexicometric and diachronic analyses).
CONTACT
Email
matthieu.kwasniuk@dauphine.psl.eu
Affiliation
DRM (CNRS UMR 7088), Université Paris Dauphine–PSL
Research areas
History of management • Learned societies • Representation & control
Research Agenda
My doctoral research examines how managerial knowledge became institutionalized in the United States during the twentieth century. Focusing on managerial learned societies, I reconstruct how management was progressively formalized as a scientific, professional, and political domain.
A central contribution of my work is to analyze managerial representation systems—classification schemes, indicators, pedagogical devices, and governance tools—as historical instruments of coordination and control. Through this lens, I connect organization studies, administrative history, and the sociology of expertise.
IN BRIEF
- Field: History of management (U.S., 20th c.)
- Core objects: Learned societies; representation systems
- Methods: Archival research; interviews; historico-ethnography
- Tools (HIMO): OCR/HTR; semantic indexing; diachronic analysis
Appointments & Projects
SINCE 2024
Scientific & Operational Coordinator — HIMO Project
Université Paris Dauphine–PSL (DRM, CNRS UMR 7088). Coordination of an international research program on the institutionalization of management, including large-scale archival corpus construction (~200,000 pages) and the development of historico-algorithmic research tools (OCR/HTR, semantic indexing, diachronic analysis).
2024–2027
Doctoral Dissertation
Representing to control: a historico-ethnographic analysis of American management learned societies in the twentieth century
Supervisor: François-Xavier de Vaujany.
Education
2024–2027
PhD in Management Sciences
Université Paris Dauphine–PSL (DRM, CNRS UMR 7088) — Contractual doctoral researcher.
Dissertation: “Representing to control: a historico-ethnographic analysis of American management learned societies in the twentieth century.”
Supervisor: François-Xavier de Vaujany.
2023–2024
Research Assistant — Management Research
École Polytechnique (Palaiseau) — Centre de Recherche en Gestion (CRG), Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation (i3), CNRS.
Research-action, bibliographies, interviews and qualitative coding; manuscript editing prior to submission; production of research summaries for scientific outreach.
2020–2022
MA Research — Philosophy of Science
Sorbonne Université (Paris).
- MA2 (2021–2022): Thesis in Philosophy of Economics — rationality in decision-making under risk (honors).
- MA1 (2020–2021): Thesis in Philosophy of Behavioral Biology — gut symbiosis and human behavior (honors).
2015–2020
Undergraduate Training
- BA in Philosophy (2017–2020): Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne — honors, valedictorian/major of cohort.
Publications
Coming soon
Teaching
2025 · 24 hours · English
Teaching Fellow (TA) — MIE 554 (MSc)
École Polytechnique — Strategy / Innovation
Critical analysis and design of innovative and sustainable business models, based on emerging digital technologies (e.g., AI, blockchain), integrating economic, societal, and environmental challenges.
2024 · 24 hours · English
Teaching Fellow (TA) — MIE 554 (MSc)
École Polytechnique — Strategy / Innovation
Critical analysis and design of innovative and sustainable business models, based on emerging digital technologies (e.g., AI, blockchain), integrating economic, societal, and environmental challenges.
2022 · 12 hours · French
Teaching Assistant — Undergraduate Philosophy
Sorbonne Université (Paris IV)
- Logic: propositional logic, first-order logic, predicate calculus, modal logic.
- Philosophy: essay writing and close-reading methodology.
2021 · 12 hours · French
Teaching Assistant — Undergraduate Philosophy
Sorbonne Université (Paris IV)
- Logic: propositional logic, first-order logic, predicate calculus, modal logic.
- Philosophy: essay writing and close-reading methodology.