Education:
Licence d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie, Université la Sorbonne - Paris I;

Licence d'ethnologie, Université Paris VII;

Diplôme d'anthropologie historique de L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS);

Doctorat d'anthropologie de l'EHESS

• Caribbean anthropology
• Medical anthropology
• Anthropology of landscape and nature
• Post-Colonialism, Transnationalism, Human Rights

Professor Benoît has B.A. degrees in Archeology and Art History, and Anthropology from the University of La Sorbonne-Paris I and Paris VII. She earned M.A. degrees in Archeology and Anthropology as well as her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

She served as Chair of the anthropology department from 2004-2006.

Professor Benoît 's research deals with research questions that developed in the field of medical anthropology. At a theoretical level she is interested in the study of creolization processes in the Caribbean. As an anthropologist who considers that anthropology is a discipline whose analytical tools can help in changing the world, she is involved in the implementation of public health programs regarding Sickle-Cell disease or AIDS in the Caribbean.

Her second book, Corps, Jardins, Mémoires - Anthropologie du corps et de l'espace a la Guadeloupe (Body, Gardens and Memories - Anthropology of the Body and Space in Guadeloupe) as well as several articles, studies the embodiment of African-American gardens in Guadeloupe (FWI) as a way towards understanding ethnicity and creolization among traditional healers and the patients in a multiethnic society.

Professor Benoît is currently involved in two research projects. She is working on a book on the experience of space and nature in the African diaspora of the Americas for which she received several fellowships and grants.

Professor Benoît was a fellow in Gardens and Landscape Architecture Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) in 2000-2001 as well as in the summer of 2003, where she conducted comparative research about the development of gardens in the African diaspora of the Americas. During the fall semester 2004, she was a fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University to work on the history of slave gardens in the Americas.

During the year 2005 Professor Benoît was also a consultant for UNESCO/UNAIDS in Haiti. She is developing a research project which aims to implement the distribution of anti-retroviral therapies in Haiti. This research involves Haitian psychologists, doctors and associations of people living with AIDS.

In addition to her published books, Professor Benoît has published numerous articles, book reviews, has presented papers at international conferences and has also organized a number of symposia and lecture series.

Professor Benoît has extensive teaching experience in France, the Caribbean and creole societies in the Indian Ocean.

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