2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

She graduated in Political Science in 1952 from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (SciencePo) and earned a PhD in History in 1963 with a thesis on the revolution in Central Asia, and a PhD in Letters and Humanities in 1976 with a thesis on the Bolsheviks and the nation. Professor of History at the Paris 1 University, in 1969 she became a lecturer and researcher at SciencePo, where she spent a major part of her career and headed the Department of Soviet Studies at the Centre for International Research. She taught at the College of Europe in Bruges and as a visiting lecturer at various universities outside of France

As a historian, Carrère d’Encausse is an international reference in Slavic studies, a specialist in the extinct Soviet Union (USSR) and Russia.