[1] Her doctoral dissertation, "Les Orientaux dans l'Égypte grecque et romaine: onomastique, identité culturelle et statut personnel" ("Orientals in Ptolemic and Roman Egypt: Onomastics, cultural identity and personal status"), was supervised by Professor Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski.
[1] While studying for her doctorate, Honigman worked part-time in the department of history at Paris-Est Créteil University from 1991 to 1994.
In the 1994-1995 academic year she was a full-time doctoral student in the department of history at the University of Caen Normandy.
[2] Notably, she has idiosyncratic views downplaying the reliability of the books of Maccabees as a source on the Maccabean Revolt compared to other historians.
She has argued that the persecution of traditionalist Jews under Antiochus IV Epiphanes was greatly overstated in the surviving sources, and the conflict was more due to economic factors than religious ones.