Laetitia Atlani-Duault

Prof. Laëtitia Atlani-Duault (PhD. University of Nanterre Paris X, 2002) is Directeur de Recherche in Social Anthropology at the French National Development Research Institute (IRD), Visiting Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) / Hunter College (Anthropology department), and Visiting Research Fellow at CUNY Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.

She is also a member of SESSTIM and the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC) at France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)(http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/lesc/spip.php?article51), and teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2012/ue/296/ andhttp://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/enseignements/2012/ue/358/) and at University of Nanterre Paris X. She was previously tenured Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Nanterre Paris X.

Her research focuses on the Politics of Humanitarian and Development Aid. She is the author of numerous articles in international journals as well as books and journal special issues, such as Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries. An Anthropological Perspective (Routledge, 2007, originally published in french as Au bonheur des autres:Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire by Société d'Ethnologie in 2005 and re-published by Armand Colin in 2009); Les ONG à l'heure de la
'bonne gouvernance' (NGOs in the era of "good governance") (Autrepart 2005); Anthropologue et ONG, des liaisons fructueuses?
(Anthropologists and NGOs: Promising Relations?) (Humanitaire 2007); Eclats d'empire, un nouveau Sud ? L'Asie centrale et la Transcaucasie(Shattered Empires - a new South? Central Asia and Transcaucasia)(Tiers Monde 2008); Anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire et du développement (Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid and Development) (with L. Vidal (ed), Armand Colin, 2009) ; and Ethnographies de l'aide(Ethnographies of Aid) (Ethnologie française 2011). France's National Centre for Scientific Research(CNRS) recently awarded her its prestigious Medal 'for outstanding achievement by a young researcher'.