Formerly Senior Lecturer at IEDES (Institut du Developpement Economique et Social/Université de Paris 1) from 1980 to 2013; since 1999, researcher member of the history laboratory MALD (Mutations Africaines sur le Longue Durée) then of the IMAF (Institut des Mondes Africaines/Université de Paris 1, EPHE,, Univ Aix-Marseille) with which is still associated. Member of the office of the French Association of Anthropologists since 2013 and of the editorial committee of the Journal des anthropologues (co-responsible for the Recherches et débats section) as well as the monthly seminar: Psychanalyse et Anthropologie, Crises Globales.

Three main axes have punctuated both seminars and research themes: the politico-religious movements in the Middle East and in Latin America; “modernity” and the paths of modernization; the non-African diasporas of Africa and particular, the Indian diasporas in the Portuguese-speaking space.
Publication of many articles, book chapters, books related to this research.

Since 2020, a sustained collaboration with the CESA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa and in particular with Joana Pereira Leite has resulted in the publication of thematic files, an international conference (2011, Lisbon), articles published in specialized journals, book chapters and two books concerning the question of the Indian diasporas (in particular the Ismailis in/of the Portuguese Empire from the end of the 19th century to the present day). Her current research concerns Goanese writers from the former British East Africa (1970-2020) whose results were presented at the Congresso Iberico de Estudos Africanos (July 2022, Lisbon) and have been asked for the publication of a chapter of book on Afro-Asian literary and intellectual circulations after Bandung at the Indian Ocean University Press (edition planned for early 2023).