Marjorie Glas is a socio-historian. She holds a PhD in sociology from EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris), she teaches at ENSATT (National School for the Arts and Techniques of Theatre in Lyon), and she serves both as a research officer at COREPS AURA (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region Committee for Live Performance) and as a research affiliate with IRIS-EHESS (Interdisciplinary Institute for Social Issues).

Her work focuses on the sociology of cultural practices, the history of public leisure activities, and the way culture has been assigned a social mission of emancipating the people. She is the author of the book Quand l’art chasse le Populaire. Socio-histoire du théâtre public en France depuis 1945 (When Art Excludes the People: A Socio-history of Public Theatre in France Since 1945), published in 2023 by Agone.

She currently works on a comparative socio-history of public cultural policies in France and French-speaking Switzerland with the University of Lausanne’s Laboratory for Capitalism, Culture, and Society, as well as on the relationship between the working class and the cultural world in France during the 1950s.