Researchers

Chercheuse accueillie à l’IFAS-Recherche en délégation CNRS en 2024-2025 | Researcher posted at IFAS-Research for 2024-2025

Prof. Sophie Chevalier
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. Head of the research center UR4287 Habiter le Monde. Find out more about her work here, and her publications here.
Posted at IFAS-Research: 2024-2025. Based in Johannesburg and in Durban, South Africa.



Chercheur·ses associé·es à l’IFAS-Recherche | Associate researchers at IFAS-Research

Dr Carla Bocchetti
PhD in Classics and Ancient History (University of Warwick).

Dr Laurent Bruxelles
Geomorphologist, Senior Researcher at the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (INRAP).
Currently posted at the University of Toulouse, Laboratory: Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés (TRACES) – UMR 5608.
Posted at IFAS-Research between 2016 and 2019.

Dr Annie Devenish
Lecturer, Department of History, University of the Witwatersrand.

Dr Chaymaa Hassabo
Associate Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg.

Dr Dostin Lakika
PhD in Sociology (African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand).

Dr Marie Opplert
PhD in Sustainable Development (University of Brasília, CIRAD).

Dr Guillaume Porraz
Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Currently posted at Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique (Lampea) – UMR 7269.
Posted at IFAS-Research between 2013 and 2015.

Dr Matthieu Rey
Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), History.
Posted at IFAS-Research: 2019-2021. Based in Johannesburg.



Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche | IFAS-Research grant recipients



Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2025 | 2025 IFAS-Research grant recipients

Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2024 | 2024 IFAS-Research grant recipients

Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2023 | 2023 IFAS-Research grant recipients

Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2022 | 2022 IFAS-Research grant recipients

Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2021 | 2021 IFAS-Research grant recipients

En 2020, les allocataires retenu·es étaient au nombre de 27 ; 14 missions de terrain ont dû être annulées en raison de la crise sanitaire et/ou reportées à 2021. | In 2020, 27 recipients were selected; 14 field missions had to be cancelled due to the health crisis and/or postponed to 2021.

Allocataires de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2019 | 2019 IFAS-Research grant recipients

Lauréat·es 2018 du programme de mobilités Atlas de la FMSH | Laureates of the FMSH 2018 Atlas Mobility Programme