PhD Research (1994 to 1999) Fieldwork and PhD thesis on kinship and social organization in the Australian Western Desert — EHESS (School for Advanced Social Studies, Paris) Received the price for best PhD of the year after completion in 1999.Field Research (1994 to now) Field Research in the Australian Western Desert — Funded by EHESS, AIATSIS, CREDO, ANR, ARC....(and others) Many field trips over the years on various subjects, mainly among Ngaatjatjarra-speaking people.Academic Position (2000 to 2002) Postdoctoral and ARC postdoctoral positions at The University of Western Australia — The University of Western Australia, PerthAcademic Position (2003 to now) A/prof at the EHESS — EHESS (School for Advanced Social Studies, Paris)Teaching Experiences (2003 to now) Weekly seminar in Australian Aboriginal Studies — EHESS (School for Advanced Social Studies, Marseille)Field Research (2008 to now) Field research on politics in Malekula, Vanuatu — CREDOAcademic Position (2008 to 2014) Director of CREDO — Aix-Marseille University - CNRS - EHESS Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie, MarseillesCollaborative Project (2008 to 2015) Participant of the Australian ARC-linkage project AustKin — Australian Research Council, with Australian National UniversityCollaborative Project (2009 to 2012) Leader of a French National Research Agency funded collaborative project on political organization in Melanesia — French National Research AgencyCollaborative Project (2010 to 2012) Responsible for the establishment of the national research unit on Digital Humanities "Corpus IR" — Ministry for Research and Higher Education, CNRS, Aix-Marseille UniversityAcademic Position (2011 to now) Member of the board and researcher of the Labex (Laboratory of Excellence) Corail — French National Agency for Scientific Research Research on coral reefs and their relationships to human societies.Academic Position (2014 to now) Co-editor of the journal Anthropological Forum — The University of Western AustraliaAcademic Position (2015 to now) Directeur d'Etudes (Professor) — EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Holding the chair of "Elicitation and social values" |