Florence Delmotte

Florence Delmotte is a Research Associate (Maîtresse de recherche) at the F.R.S.-FNRS and has been a Professor at UCLouvain (formerly Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) since 2010. She currently conducts her research within the CReSPo (Centre de recherche en science politique) and the Institute for European Studies. Additionally, she is an Associate Researcher at the Centre Émile-Durkheim at Sciences Po Bordeaux.

At UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, she teaches courses on Political Doctrines and the Historical Sociology of European Integration. Having previously directed CReSPo from 2015 to 2021, she resumed her role as its director in March 2025. Among her other mandates, she has represented FNRS researchers on the union side of the FNRS Consultation and Negotiation Body (Organe de concertation et de négociation) since its establishment in 2013.

At the intersection of political science, sociology, and political theory, her research explores the contemporary political relevance of historical sociology—particularly that of Norbert Elias—to examine Europe and the processes of political community identification across different levels. Her current research focuses on the transmission of nationalism during childhood, as well as how gender relations can be understood within a sociology of civilizing processes.

Florence Delmotte defended her PhD thesis at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2006, examining the epistemological and political stakes of Norbert Elias’s historical sociology. In 2007, she joined Université Saint-Louis as part of an interdisciplinary research project dedicated to new urban development tools in Brussels.