Personal Info

E-mail: helene.neveu(at)anthro.ox.ac.uk

Tel: (01865) 613 915

Web Links:

http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/staff/academic/pratten/HeleneNeveu_Kringelbach.html
http://www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/resources/staff_a-z_directory/staff-africa/helene_neveu

Academic Background:

Masters in Business Studies (ICN, University of Nancy 2, France, 1991); MSc Social Anthropology (ISCA, University of Oxford, 2000); DPhil Social Anthropology (ISCA, University of Oxford, 2005); Junior Research Fellowship in African Anthropology (St Anne’s College, 2002–04); ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (ISCA, 2005–06); Departmental Lectureship in African Studies (University of Oxford, 2006–08); Departmental Lectureship in Anthropology and African Studies (University of Oxford and St Anne’s College 2008–present).

Teaching Interests:

Graduate:

MSc African Studies; MSc, MPhil and DPhil Social Anthropology; MPhil Migration Studies.

Research Interests:

Dr Neveu’s doctoral research focused on the relationship between performance and social mobility in urban Senegal. It looked at how various forms of dance are transformed as a result of global artistic circuits, changes in the local political and economic context, performers’ desire for mobility and individual creativity. She is now working on a monograph building up from her thesis, and on a volume on the Anthropology of Dance, co-edited with Dr Jonathan Skinner. Both volumes will be published by Berghahn Books. In addition, she is in the initial stages of developing a new research project on transnational families involving a Senegalese partner.

Selected Publications:

Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Book review: F. Castaldi, ‘Choreographies of African Identities’, in African Arts, 41(2), 2008
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, ‘Cool play: emotionality in dance as a resource in Senegalese urban women’s associations’, in H. Wulff (ed.), The Emotions: A Cultural Reader, 2007
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, ‘Le poids du succès: construction du corps, danse et carrière à Dakar’, in Politique Africaine, 107, 2007