Anouchka Dybal

Anouchka Dybal

Anouchka Dybal

Country of origin: France Visiting period: October 2014 - June 2015 Faculty sponsor: Lowell Turner, Ph.D. Email: ad592@cornell.edu

Background and Previous Experience

Anouchka Dybal has a background in Sociology and Economics and holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in both subjects. She comes from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan in France. In 2012, Dybal spent time at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) where she investigated the struggle for LGBT rights after the passing of the same-sex marriage law in Denmark in 2012. Having always been passionate about gender equality, she then became familiar with the intersectionality and the multiple sides of the struggle for women's rights and LGBT rights, which led her to focus on the need to link different social movements. At ENS, she had the opportunity to pursue a full year of pre-doctoral research work abroad in order to obtain some hands-on training to deepen her research interests. Thanks to the relationship between Institutions et Dynamiques historiques de l'économie et de la société (IDHES) at ENS and the ILR School, she now has the opportunity to be at Cornell and explore the American labor movement.

Current Research at ILR

At the ILR School, Dybal aims to build on the work of IDHES and the Worker Institute's work on the revitalization of the labor movement and her own interests in gender issues and global civil society. She is currently working on a research project on women's leadership in the labor movement, specifically focused on the attempts of women union leaders to shift from traditional unionism to a broader social movement by linking worker's rights with women's rights, as well as migrant, and human rights.

Anouchka Dybal