Hélène Quiniou

Hélène Quiniou

Dissertation Review Committee

David Scott
Nadia L. Abu El-Haj
Brinkley M. Messick

Research Interest

Colonial/Decolonial
Visual and Sound Cultures
Legalities
Memory, Museums, and the Archive

Research Sub-interest

Terror, Media and Technologies, Memory and Trauma, Witnessing

Regions

Europe; France

Biography

Hélène Quiniou’s work is concerned with the temporalities and chronologies that underwrite contemporary histories of the present. Her doctoral research investigates the multiple grammars of trauma, survival, and witnessing in the wake of the November 13, 2015 series of coordinated terrorist attacks in France. Fieldwork for this project is supported by the Alliance Doctoral Mobility Program and the Social Science Research Council.

Education

Columbia University, MPhil in Anthropology
Columbia University, MA in French and Francophone Studies
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, BA, MA in Philosophy