Emilie studied History, Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology at the Universities of Montpellier (Paul Valery), of Minnesota (USA) and of the Sorbonne-Paris I, before completing a double cotutelle PhD in Prehistory from the Sorbonne and the ANU. Her PhD thesis focused on New Caledonia precolonial archaeology and the application of archaeobotany in the region. 

After completing her PhD, Emilie worked at the University of Western Australia in Archaeology as a research associate, building on her research interest about the relationships between people and forests in Australia and the Pacific. This has led to a number of archaeobotany projects in the region, including through international collaborations and students supervision. She is now leading the Archaeobotany Lab @ UWA.

In 2015, she joined the ANU as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within Prof. Matthew Spriggs's ARC Laureate Project "The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific - a Hidden History", where she was part of team developping a new field of studies investigating the Historiography of Archaeology in the region. She focused on the history of francophone archaeology in the region: Pour une Histoire de la Prehistoire / Towards a History of Pacific Prehistory

Since 2020, Emilie has been working on her DECRA research project, back at UWA, continuing to investigate the history of archaeology in the Pacific and focusing on the hidden contribution of women in the eary days of the discipline: Pacific Matildas - also see here: Finding the Women in the History of Pacific Archaeology et sur le site de l'AFRAN pour une presentation du projet en francais

Senior Lecturer

DECRA research fellow

Archaeobotanist (wood charcoal analysis and tropical Australasia)

Archaeology Honours coordinator

Editorial Boards: Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research ,

History of archaeology in the Indo-Pacific, focusing on women and indigenous scholars

Devlopment and applications of archaeobotany in the Indo-Pacific

2020-2024. DECRA Research Fellow at UWA

2015-2020.Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Laureate Project: The Collective Biography of Pacific Archaeology - a Hidden History (CI Prof. M. Spriggs), School of Anthropology and Archaeology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, the Australian National University.

2011-2015. Research Associate, UWA School of Social Sciences

2010-current.Associate post doctoral researcher, Equipe d'Ethnologie Prehistorique, CNRS, France

2024 (see below)

2023

ARCY1001 - Think like an archaeologist - tutorials
ARCY2006 - Archaeology of Death - tutorials
ARCY4104 - Advanced Methods in Archaeology - teaching support

2021-22:

GEOG1106 - Climate Change: Environment and Society (Environmental Archaeology component)

ARCY 1-4xxx - Casual teaching for undergraduate archaeology courses on laboratory techniques and analyses, archaeobotany (2012-present)

French

English

basic Spanish