IFRA New Researcher
Henri Médard, a professor of African history at Aix-Marseille University (AMU) and the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF), has joined IFRA on a one- or two-year (délégation CNRS) starting in September 2024. He has...
Category: Researchers
Clélia Coret – Director
Clélia Coret is a Historian and specialist of East Africa and the Swahili coast in the 19th and 20th centuries. She holds a PhD in Contemporary History from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her award-winning thesis (Mattei Dogan...
Clément Dulac – Intern 2022
Clément Dulac is a Master’s student in Development Studies at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He will be an intern at IFRA from June to end of August 2022, between his first and his second...
Francesca di Matteo – Researcher and Deputy Director
Francesca Di Matteo holds a PhD in Political Anthropology (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Scieces Sociale, Marseille) while her previous academic training was in Politics (SciencesPo Bordeaux; Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna). The doctoral study...
Elisa Crestani Befve – Intern 2021
Elisa Crestani Befve was a third-year student at Sciences Po Paris, in the Europe-Africa program in 2021. As IFRA’s intern from September to December 2021, she supported IFRA team in communication on social medias...
Marie-Aude Fouéré – 2018-22
Marie-Aude Fouéré is a Social and Political Anthropologist researching on collective memories and the uses of the past; ethnicity, nation and race; African socialism and revolution. She mainly works in Tanzania mainland (Morogoro, Rufiji, Butiama)...
Chloé Josse-Durand – 2016-2021
Chloé Josse-Durand was IFRA’s Resident Researcher and Deputy Director from February 2016 to August 2021. She is a political scientist. She pursued her PhD at Les Afriques dans le Monde, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de...
Maëline Le Lay – 2018-21
Maëline Le Lay is specialised in African literatures. Her research deals with theatre, performing arts and literature in the Great Lakes Region (eastern DR-Congo, Rwanda, Burundi) today. She is interested in the interactions between...
Aude Franklin- PhD Student
Aude Franklin is a PhD student in Social Anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (EHESS) in association with IFRA-Nairobi. Titled «(Re)constructing family and kinship relationships: An anthropology of...
Hope Shete- Intern 2020
Hope Chao Shete is a Journalism graduate from Multimedia University of Kenya. She will be IFRA’s intern from February to December 2020. Hope assists the team in improving the communication of IFRA’s messages to...
