Elise Lantz is a PhD in Sociology, a Teaching Assistant at the University of Montpellier and a member of the Santé, Education et Situation de Handicap [Health, Education and Disability Situations] research unit. Her doctoral thesis « Des Marginalités Encadrées » [« Of Controlled Marginalities »] dealt with the relation between disability and association networks in the world of contemporary French circus. She teaches classes on the sociology of disability, health, body and sports.