Julie Billaud

I am a legal and political anthropologist working on human rights and humanitarianism and an Associate Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. I have studied these themes through ethnographic fieldwork in Afghanistan, Britain, in Geneva at the United Nations and transnationally, with the International Committee of the Red Cross. In these different sites, I have examined how notions of rights, justice and accountability are operationalized in everyday practices. I have been an active member of EASA since 2012. In 2021, I became co-convener of LAWNET (with Agathe Mora). As a member of the editorial collective of the open-access publication platform Allegra Lab, I am dedicated to making scholarly debates more accessible and relevant to understand contemporary world events. Above all, I am committed to helping find ways to tackle some of the most pressing human rights issues affecting our anthropological community, notably the current suppression of academic freedom and freedom of expression on universities’ campuses.