I am a faculty-member at Grenoble-Alpes University and Pacte, teaching geography at the Arts and Human Sciences (Arsh) research unit.
My PhD research focused on relations between geography and the political arena in the early-19th century, comparing France, Prussia and Great Britain. I am still interested in historical and epistemological questions, but I have broadened their scope and redirected them, currently working on questions of producing and disseminating science in the light of geography. In particular I am investigating, from a historical or contemporary standpoint:
- the effects of translation from one linguistic sphere to another (drawing in particular on the work of Alexander von Humboldt);
- the circulation of concepts, notions or objects between geography and other human or social sciences;
- the relations between politics and the production of geographic learning.
Adopting a pluri or inter-disciplinary perspective I am also querying the borders of human and social science, ultimately probing the nature of these sciences.