2025 | Research fellows

Richard Price is an anthropologist and historian who has written extensively on the history and culture of African Americans throughout the hemisphere. He has taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins, and William & Mary, and in France, the Netherlands, and Brazil. His prize-winning books, translated into several languages, include First-Time, Alabi’s World, The Convict and the Colonel, Travels with Tooy, and Rainforest Warriors and, most recently with Sally Price, Saamaka Dreaming and Maroons in Guyane. His latest book is a memoir: Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology (2022).

Sally Price has conducted anthropological field research in French Guiana, Martinique, Mexico, Spain, and Suriname, as well as with art collectors and museum curators in Europe. She has taught in the United States, Brazil, and France, and is the author of many books, including Primitive Art in Civilized Places, also published in Chinese, Dutch, French. German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) and Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac’s Museum on the Quai Branly (2007, French edition 2011, Chinese edition in press). She and Richard Price are the authors of Enigma Variations (a novel about art forgery) and Saamaka Dreaming (about their two-year residence in a village in the Amazonian rain forest). She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). 

Dr. Yanique Hume is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus specializing in Caribbean cultural thought and the religious and performance cultures of the African diaspora. She conducts interdisciplinary research in the humanities and creative arts, utilizing cultural anthropology, cultural studies, comparative religion, performance studies, and critical dance practice.  Dr. Hume has worked with companies across the Caribbean exploring a range of ritual and modern dance idioms. She is also a member of the dance-scholar collective, “Afro-Feminist Performance Routes.” Dr. Hume is the co-editor of Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation Diaspora (2013); Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (2016); and Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean (2018). Her current book project, "Ecstatic Play: Transcending Spirit in the Traditions of the Wake," engages in a comparative investigation of the aesthetic and performative dimensions of Black Atlantic mortuary customs as it explores the work of play in sustaining black lives. She is the recipient of grants from esteemed institutions such as the Social Science Research Council, the International Development Research Centre, Ford Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. 

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.