Christine Chivallon is both an anthropologist and a geographer her research focuses on materiality, space and identity, mainly in the Caribbean societies and through Caribbean migration in Europe, including research on the memory of slavery and cultural trauma. She also works on theories of cultures, production of knowledge and postcolonial and decolonial controversies. In 2000, she was awarded the Bronze Medal from the CNRS for her body of scientific work. She was elected as Director of Research at the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research) in 2007 by the “Space and Society” academic committee and was promoted to First Class Director by this same committee in October 2014. Chivallon has been elected as Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford since 2013, and is the founder of the Research Group “Mondes Caraïbes et transatlantiques en mouvement” which brings together several institutions, mainly the FMSH Paris.
