The following is a selection of my French-to-English translation and related English-language editorial work in the humanities and social sciences. It includes books, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, shorter online publications, research dossiers and policy reports, covering subjects such as literary and cultural studies, sociology, environmental thought, health research, international affairs and strategic foresight.
Unless otherwise indicated, I was the sole translator. Where my role involved editorial work or the translation of only part of a publication, this is specified below.
Books
Cédric Hugrée and Tristan Poullaouec, Graduating France, Selecting Students: Dilemmas in the Land of Cultural Capital (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Vincent Ferré (ed.), The Worlds of Christopher Tolkien (HarperCollins, forthcoming November 2026). Publication details
Louis Hébert, How to Find the Buddha within You: Buddhism in Brief: Philosophy, Meditation, Daily Life, 2nd edn (2026). Co-translated with the author. Read online
Stéphane Moriou, Feedback: The Power of Conversations: The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback (Dunod, 2025). Publisher page
Claude Calame, Humans and Their Environment: Beyond the Nature/Culture Opposition (Transnational Press London, 2023). Publisher page
Louis Hébert, Introduction to Literary Analysis: A Complete Methodology (Routledge, 2022). Publisher page
Jean-Luc Nancy, Dies Irae (University of Westminster Press, 2019), translated for Cadenza Academic Translations. DOI
Chapters, journal articles and shorter publications
Axelle Brodiez-Dolino, ‘How to Quantify the Poor, and Why? Transnational Movements and the Creation of a Poverty Line in France and Europe (1960s–1970s)’, Social History, 50.3 (2025), 334–53. DOI
Bruno Latour, ‘Ecological Mutation and Christian Cosmology’, translated by Sam Ferguson, in If We Lose the Earth, We Lose Our Souls, translated by Catherine Porter and Sam Ferguson (Polity, 2024). Publisher page
Éric Méchoulan, ‘Love in Material Culture’, in Katherine Ibbett (ed.), A Cultural History of Love in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Publisher page
Étienne Penissat, Cécile Rodrigues and Alexis Spire, ‘A Configurational Approach to Job Quality Analysis: Forms of Inequalities at Work in Europe’, European Societies, 26.4 (2024), 1395–1419. DOI
Costanza Puppo, Yves Hansmann, Catherine Chirouze, Pascale Frey-Klett and Marie Préau, ‘When General Practitioners Say “I Don’t Know”: A Qualitative Study on the Construction of Lyme Borreliosis Diagnosis’, Archives of Family Medicine and General Practice, 9.1 (2024), 211–19. English-language editing and translation of interview extracts. DOI
Claude Calame, ‘Greek Mythology: Discourse, Belief, and Ritual Action’, in Alison James, Akihiro Kubo and Françoise Lavocat (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief (Routledge, 2023), pp. 339–48. DOI
Pierre Papon, ‘China: Science and Technology under Communist Party Control’, Futuribles International, 13 April 2023. Read online
Claude Calame, ‘For an Ecosocialist Transition that Breaks from Capitalism: Arguments and Proposals’, Global Ecosocialist Network, 13 April 2021. Read online
Three articles in Barthes Studies, 5 (2019): Claudia Amigo Pino, ‘The Rhetorical Mission: Barthes’s Seminars from 1964 to 1969’; Claude Coste, ‘Roland Barthes’s Visits to Greece’; and Christophe Corbier, ‘“The Material Effectiveness of Music” in Barthes’s 1941 Postgraduate Dissertation “Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque”’.
Pierre Bourdieu, ‘The Marriage Between the Past and the Present in North African-Saharan Societies’, French Ethnology, 48.1 (2018), 177–86, translated for Cadenza Academic Translations. DOI
Antoine Compagnon, ‘Writing Mourning’, Textual Practice, 30.2 (2016), 209–19. DOI
Marie Gil, ‘Roland Barthes: Life as a Text’, Barthes Studies, 1 (2015), 35–60. Read online
Reports, policy papers and research dossiers
CNP Assurances, Youth by 2040: Aspirations, Challenges, Opportunities (CNP Assurances, in partnership with Futuribles, 2025). Report
Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara and Ibrahima Poudiougou, Living under Blockade: The Case of Areas under JNIM Influence in Mali (SIPRI/REcAP Network, Working Paper no. 5, 2025). Report
Luxembourg Stratégie, ECO2050 Vision (Ministry of the Economy, 2023). Translation and English-language editing. Project page
Alain Dieckhoff (ed.), After the 7 October 2023 (CERI, Sciences Po, 2023), a dossier of articles by CERI researchers. Translation of selected contributions. Read online
Dr Sam Ferguson | Academic Translator, Editor and Researcher 