[4] Her dissertation was entitled Les classes moyennes indépendantes dans la vie politique: le cas des petits commerçants français.

[4] Mayer is Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, affiliated with the Centre de Recherches Politiques at Sciences Po (fr), and she runs the political sociology program of the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

She and Edmond Préteceille (fr) manage the Societies in Motion section of the Sciences Po Press.

[6] Mayer also participates in the Racism and Xenophobia European Network, and in the Group Focused Enmity comparative survey led by Wilhelm Heitmeyer.

[6] In February 2016, she was appointed member of the scientific council of the Inter-Ministerial Delegation to Combat Racism and Anti-Semitism, chaired by Dominique Schnapper.