I grew up in southeastern France before moving to Paris in 2013 when I enrolled at Sciences Po Paris. I obtained a Bachelor degree in 2015, spent one year at the McGill University in Montreal, before obtaining a Master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Management from the School of Public Affairs of Sciences Po Paris in 2019. In 2020, I graduated among the first promotion of the Environmental Studies Master of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
My master’s thesis under the supervision of Christophe Bonneuil and Violette Pouillard described ivory extraction on the African continent, as well as its main importation, transformation and consumption in the French national context, from 1860 to 1918. It aimed to show how precolonial and colonial trade were enmeshed, how the material conditions of ivory and its extraction influenced forms of exploitation of wildlife, how ivory has been a factor of imperialist projection in the field and how discourses on ivory as a resource were conditioned by its accessibility for the industrialized metropolises.
My research interests are environmental history and colonial history, with a strong tropism towards Central Africa. I am also very interested in more contemporary history, environmental studies and cultural studies.