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UCL Email: ucsafod@ucl.ac.uk
Year of start: 2018
Supervisors: Jerome Lewis, Ludovic Coupaye
Subject: Anthropology
Fieldsite: Madagascar
PhD Research
Ecologies of Desire: Constituting Life in the Forests of North East Madagascar.
Research in the North East of Madagascar seeks to understand how diverse theories of life and their accompanying practices shape the constitution of relations of life in the forest and fallow.
Research interests
- Shifting Cultivation
- Fallow and Forest
- Ecology
- Ethnobiology
- Theories of Life
- Political and Human Ecology
- Taste and Flavour
- Invisibility and the Unseen
- Consumption and Commodities
- Fairness and Inequality
- Value and the Marketplace
Presentations & Conferences
- 2019 “Tasting the Anthropocene: Flavour, Desire and the Reassembling of Ecology in the Forests of North East Madagascar”, European Conference on African Studies, June 2019, University of Edinburgh.
- 2019 “Ecologies of Desire: Value and the Constitution of Life in the Forests of North East Madagascar”, Human Ecology Research Group Seminar Series, University College London.
Education History
- MSc Anthropology Environment and Development - Department of Anthropology, University College London (2016 -2018)
- Research Trainee – European Commission Joint Research Centre, Climate Risk Management Unit (2014-2015)
- MA Global Studies - Institute for History, University of Vienna / Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig (2012 -2014)
- BA Anthropology and Music - School of Oriental and African Studies (2006-2009)
Honours, Awards & Funding
- Economic and Social Research Council PhD Studentship (2017-2021)
- Tropical Agriculture Award Fund – MSc Fieldwork Award (2018)
- University of Vienna Leistungsstipendium (2013)
- Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (2012 -2014)