Nadège Vezinat is a Fellow in Sociology at CEE (Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, France). Her PhD dissertation at EHESS-Paris is concerned with the professionalization of financial advisors in the French Post Office Bank, and with the legitimization of that bank. It analyses the emergence of a commercial position within a rapidly changing State administration. Her research interests center on sociology of work and professions, sociology of organizations and economical sociology. At Harvard, she will continue her post-doctoral research on the European postal strategies in a context of liberalization.