Election statement 2019: Presently an Associate Professor of Anthropology in Mayotte – an ultra-peripheral region of Europe – I do know what it means to live and work on short-term research and teaching contracts. Between 2016-2018 while still a precarious researcher I served on the EASA Executive Board as a precarity and lobby liaison. I struggled to make our community aware of this delicate issue and to recognise its shared responsibility. If re-elected, I will carry on our campaign to deal with precarity. A priority will be to establish a task force to represent the membership of EASA at higher European institutional levels. You may also count on my personal commitment to make anthropology more visible. EASA members should be encouraged to contribute to public understanding in these turbulent and challenging times.
Nominating member: Sabine Strasser (Bern University). Supporting member: Adam Kuper (visiting professor, Boston University).
Election statement 2017: EASA has come to represent one of the major anthropological associations in which I recognize myself as a young researcher in motion. Having a fieldwork experience in Europe (Romania), Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Mayotte and Reunion Island) and a teaching experience as a Visiting Lecturer in Estonia and Italy, I integrated different multidisciplinary research teams in Europe and Indian Ocean Region. Since my nomination as a Secretary and Treasurer of the Italian Association of Anthropologists in 2012, I have been actively involved in activities concerning the future of anthropology and the importance of research networking. If elected, I will promote the following long-term goals: Strengthening the presence of young anthropologists inside academia and in the public domain; Making anthropology more relevant to European decisional and funding institutions; Recognising the teaching of anthropology at the level of secondary education.
Nominated and supported by Filippo Zerilli (University of Cagliari) and Michal Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University).
Election statement 2015: The best words to describe myself would be “researcher in motion” and many of the EASA members would probably recognize themselves as such. Having been trained as an anthropologist in Italy and France, I’m currently a Fernand Braudel Fellow at IRD France in an interdisciplinary team in the field of environmental anthropology. Since my nomination as Secretary and Treasurer of the Italian Association of Academic Anthropologists in 2012, I have been actively involved in the association’s activities focused on the future of anthropology and the importance of networking between anthropological associations. If elected, I will work on the following long-term goals: (1) strengthening the presence of young anthropologists inside the academia and in the public domain (2) making anthropology more relevant at the level of European decisional and funding institutions (3) incrementing the role of anthropology as a teaching discipline in the academia and at the level of secondary education.
Nominated and supported by Françoise Lafaye (UMR EVS (ENTPE, CNRS, Université de Lyon, AFEA President) and Alexander Koensler (Queen’s University Belfast)