Winner of the IRASEC 2025 field grants
marvin.freyne etu.u-paris.fr
Marvin Freyne is a doctoral student in anthropology at Paris Cité University, affiliated with the Center for Population and Development (CEPED – UMR 196 : Paris Cité University, IRD, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Inserm). His thesis, supervised by Laëtitia Atlani-Duault (IRD/CEPED) & Myriam de Loenzien (IRD/CEPED), focuses on the mobilizations in Vietnam and France resulting from the long-term consequences of Agent (...)

Fields of interest
International Business Strategy Corruption Technology Diffusion
Experience
Roberto Martin N. Galang teaches strategy at the John Gokongwei School of Management at Ateneo de Manila University. His research interests revolve around the impact of government institutional inefficiencies on firm behavior. His work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Business and Society, and the Academy of Management Best (...)

Researcher at the Human Sciences Center of New Delhi, Laurent GAYER is coordinator of the transversal program "Dynamics of Contemporary Islam in Asia", financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His thesis was devoted to the dynamics of internationalization of the Sikh and Mohajir nationalist movements. He is currently working on Karachi’s urban conflicts and on the spread of martyrdom in South Asia. (...)

Maxime Ghazarian is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History at Montpellier University Paul-Valéry, affiliated with the CRISES research center, and currently based in Hanoi, working at the intersection of European studies, Vietnamese studies, and Cold War history. His dissertation, supervised by Prof. Pierre Journoud, examines how the European Community constructed - and repeatedly reconfigured - its relationship with Việt Nam between 1973 and 1996, treating Việt Nam as a revealing “laboratory” (...)

Awardee the IRASEC 2019 Field Scholarships

Phd student in anthropology, EHESS – CASE.
Research topic : Religious pluralism and performance arts : study of the syncretic practices of Javanese Islam in the masked theatre wayang topèng in Central Java.
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Specialized in the study of Islamic societies, Michel Gilquin is a researcher at the Center for Social Science and Humanities in Rabat, Morocco. In addition to his book on Thai Muslims (2002), he has also published two books on Malaysia, and regularly visits Thailand.
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urban planner, emeritus professor of Universities, Paris VIII University, former director of the French Institute of Urban Planning, associate researcher Ipraus/UMR AUSser, member of the GEMDEV Steering Committee.
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Sara Gonzalez Devant is a freelance writer and Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo (AECID) scholar. She worked in Timor-Leste between 2005-2006. She has also published ’Displacement in the 2006 Dili Conflict : Dynamics of an Ongoing Crisis’ (2008), Refugee Studies Centre Working Paper 45, University of Oxford.
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Professor Yves Goudineau is a former director of the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) where he now holds the chair of ‘Comparative anthropology of Southeast Asia’. Over the decades, he has spent eight years in Laos, working mostly in the south among Austroasiatic minorities in the Annamese cordillera.
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Resident Researcher from 2014 to 2016
Jean-Marc de Grave is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at Aix-Marseille University (AMU). He is currently on a CNRS delegation at the Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, USR 3142) where he is conducting research on the learning of practices and values among Indonesian high school students. He is the author of “Initiation rituelle et arts martiaux. Trois écoles de kanuragan javanais” (L’Harmattan, Prix J. Cuisinier 2001). (...)