Mathilde Morin

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DPhil Student

St Cross College

Email: mathilde.morin@stx.ox.ac.uk

 

Mathilde Morin is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography of the University of Oxford. She works under the supervision of Dr. Dace Dzenovska and Prof. Denis Laborde (Directeur d’études, EHESS – Médaille d’argent du CNRS 2020). Her doctoral research interests revolve around French modernity, alternative economies, and pastoral lifeworlds in the Anthropocene.

Mathilde’s ethnographic fieldwork takes place in the Northern or ‘French’ Basque Country in South-Western France. More specifically, she works in this region's smallest and most remote province: Soule or Xiberoa in Basque. There, she conducts ethnographic research on the thriving pastoral culture of the province. She is interested in understanding how pastoralism – an ancient social and economic form of organization – survived ‘despite’ the advent of modernity. The broader question she poses is why this remote valley of the Pyrenees has been relatively preserved from the emptiness that pervades most rural areas in post-industrial countries. 

Apart from her academic work, Mathilde is a consultant for various organizations. She has notably worked for French multinational hospitality business AccorHotels, assisting Brune Poirson (former Secretary of State to the Minster of the Environment of France) to make tourism practices more sustainable in France. As such, Mathilde is committed to making anthropological knowledge present outside of academic institutions.

Mathilde has taught at the Stanford University Program in Paris.

Education-wise, Mathilde was first trained as a classe préparatoire student in the humanities at Lycée Henri IV, before receiving an East Asian Studies master’s degree (Mention Très Bien) from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. Subsequently, Mathilde studied Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford (Master of Science, Distinction).

 

Awards and Grants

Summer 2023: School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography Conference Award, University of Oxford.

Spring 2023: School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography Fieldwork Skills Award, University of Oxford. 

Spring 2023: School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography Travel Award, University of Oxford. 

Spring 2023: Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Scholarship. 

Winter 2023: Academic Skills & Languages Fund Grant St Cross College, University of Oxford. 

Summer 2022: Peter Memorial Fund and Philip Bagby Fund School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.

Winter 2022: Travel & Research Fund Grant St Cross College, University of Oxford.

Winter 2022: Travel Award Bursary, University of Oxford.

Fall 2021: Kuo Tong Soo Bursary St Cross College, University of Oxford.

Fall 2021: Academic Skills & Languages Fund Grant St Cross College, University of Oxford.

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