[2] Born in 1971, Tissot studied at Sciences-Po, the University of Minnesota, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where she earned a PhD with highest honors.

Tissot's research deals with urban policy and the transformation of major cities in France and the United States, focusing on such topics as public housing and gentrification.

Genèse d'une catégorie de l'action publique (Seuil 2007)[3] examines the evolution of public housing in France since World War II and the emergence of the "quartier sensible" ("sensitive neighborhood") as a category of state intervention.

[7] She focuses particularly on the ambivalent tool of "diversity", detailing the central role this principle played as a group of progressive upper-middle-class residents established themselves as a local elite in the formerly working-class neighborhood.

[10] Je ne suis pas féministe, mais... premiered in March 2015 and traces the biography, career and intellectual contributions of Christine Delphy, one of the founders of the French Women's Liberation Movement and of materialist feminism.