alexandra.lavrillier [at] uvsq.fr
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Associate professor (PhD, Habilitation) in Social and Cultural Anthropology & Eco-Anthropology (Maître de conférences – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherche HDR), Master 1&2 Arctic Studies, CEARC Research Centre, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin (OVSQ, UVSQ), France.
Membre senior of the Academic Institute of France (IUF – Institut Universitaire de France) since 2021.
Co-coordinator of OVSQ’s Multidisciplinary Arctic Network – Environment and Societies Facing Global Issues (with J.-D. Paris) since 2011.
Member of the multidisciplinary research group GDR AREES “ARctique: Enjeux pour l’Environnement et les Sociétés” (CNRS 2012).
Coordinator of BRISK’S OBSQ ENV project (2018-2021) and BRISK’S OBSQ ENV II (2022-2025), Institut Polaire Français – Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV).
Associate fellow at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités GSRL – CNRS UMR 8582 (IRESCO, Paris), since 2005.
(mise à jour 01/2026)
Her transdisciplinary research interests cover comparative studies of climate change, environmental changes, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, nomadism, hunting, reindeer herding, landscape management, representations of the natural environment, shamanism, lifestyles and adaptations brought by postsocialism, and the market economy among Evenki, Even, Nanai and Yakut. She has published on social organization, rituals, the uses of space and landscape, childhood, ethnolinguistics, ecological knowledge system and environmental changes, and transdisciplinarity. She led or participated to scientific projects like DOBES, BRISK, etc.
Fluent in Evenki, also working in Even, from her first fieldwork in Eastern Siberia just after the collapse of the Soviet Union to 2022, she has conducted 13 years of fieldwork in 32 expeditions among 4 peoples in Yakutia, Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk regions, and in Northern China. She now initiates field research in Fennoscandia. She has worked in diverse universities and research institutions, including in Germany (Max Planck Institute), France (EPHE, INALCO, UVSQ, Quai Branly Museum) and participated in many conferences in EU countries, Siberia, and China.
AWARDS
2021-2026: Senior Member of Academic Institute of France – IUF (Institut Universitaire de France).
2020: Knight of the Order of the Academic Palms (Nommée Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques).
2020-2025; 2015-2019: Allowance Thesis and Ph.D. supervision and research (Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation) (Prime d’Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche du Ministry de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et l’Innovation).
2006: Rolex Award for Enterprise for the cooperative anthropology project “Nomadic school for the Evenki of Siberia”.
2005: Fondation GARNIER, Award of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France.
LAST GRANTS
2021-2026: Institut Universitaire de France, Senior member.
2021-2026: PRISMARCTYC – Permafrost degradation impact on soils, human societies, water resources and the carbon cycle (Belmont Forum), led by A. Sejourné/GEOPS.
2021-2022: IEA CNRS-INSHS France-Russie GSRL & Ethnographic Museum of St Petersburg, led by M.-D. Even/GSRL.
2022-2025 & 2018-2021: BRISK’s OBS ENV I & II projects (IPEV)
2020: SSAVOIRS – Science et Savoirs Autochtones sur les Rivières en Sibérie [Science and Indigenous Knowledge about Siberian Rivers] (CNRS-INEE), led by E. Gautier / LGP.
2018-2021: ERASMUS+ Russia (EU funded) (IR of UVSQ, NEFU (Yakutsk), BSPU (Blagoveshchensk), MADI (Moscow)).
2018: Changes in Siberia (Interdisciplinary Mission of CNRS-INSU (led by K. Law/LATMOS).
2016-2019: EDU-ARCTIC Engaging students in STEM education through Arctic research (H2020).
2014-2017: ARTISTICC (Adaptation Research: a Transdisciplinary Transnational Community and Policy-Centred Approach) (Belmont-Forum IGFA).
2014-2017: BRISK’s OBS (Brisk’s project observatories) (IPEV 1127)
2014: Fieldwork (with A. Dumont) among the Evenki of China funded by GDRI “NSEACS” (CNRS-UMR 7130).
2013-2016: BRISK (BRidging Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge about global change in the Arctic: adaptation and vulnerability of society & the environment) (2013-2015) (ANR-12-SENV-0005-01)
2013-2016: POLARIS (Cultural and Natural Heritage in Arctic and Sub-Antarctic Regions for a Cross-Cultural and Sustainable Valorisation Process and Tourism Development: Siberia, Lapland and Patagonia (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES N° 318974)
CV Alexandra Lavrillier Jan 2026
LAST PUBLICATIONS
Articles published in peer-reviewed journals
2025 Lavrillier A. Dangdai Ewenkeyu de Fangyan he Shumian Biaozhu 当代鄂温克语的方言和书面标注 [Chinese: Dialects and Written Notation of the Ewenke Language], Translate by Tingting Liu. Journal of Arctic Studies, 2025. Volume 8, pp. 60-72.
2024 Dumont A., A. Lavrillier and S. Gabyshev. When Chinese and Russian Evenki Meet: Transborder Reindeer Herders’ Cross-Views (First part: in China), Inner Asia 26, pp. 29-57.
2024 Lavrillier A. and D. Matic. Even Kinship Terminology, Society and Language Contact, Journal of Language Contact 17, 95-162 p
2021 Lavrillier, A., and S. Gabyshev, An Indigenous Science of the Climate Change Impacts on Landscape Topography in Siberia, Ambio50, pp. 1910-1925.
2021 Lavrillier, A. and T. Sem, Contemporary “Shamanising Persons” among the Tungus-Manchu (Evenki, Even, and Nanai): Case Studies about Common Collective Spiritual Representations, « Religiovedenie » (« Study of Religion »), 3 2021, pp. 32-51.
2021 Lavrillier, A., S. Gabyshev, L. Egorova, G. Makarova, and M. Lomovtseva-Adukanova, Analysing Non-Existing and Existing Tourisms in Eastern Siberia among the Evenki, Even, Koryak, and Itelmen, Espace populations sociétés, 2020/3-2021|2021.
2020 Lavrillier A. “Spirit-Charged” Humans in Siberia: Interrelations between the Notions of the Individual (“Spirit Charge” and “Active Imprint”) and (Ritual) Action, Arctic Anthropology, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 72–98.
2018 Lavrillier A., A. Dumont and D. Brandisauskas Human-Environment Relationships in Siberia and Northeast China, EMSCAT, 49.
2018 Lavrillier A. and S. Gabyshev, An Emic Science of Climate: a Reindeer Evenki Environmental Knowledge and the Notion of an Extreme Process, EMSCAT, 49
Contributions to peer-reviewed edited volumes
2022 Lavrillier, A., reki v sisteme prostranstvennoi, sotsial’noi i ritual’noi orientatsii [Rivers in a system of spatial, social and ritual orientation]. In (Eds) L.I. Missonova, A.A. Sirina Tunguso-man’chzhurskie narody Sibiri i Dal’nego vostoka: Evenki. Eveny. Negidal’tsy, Uil’ta, Nanaitsy, Ul’chi, Udegeitsy, Oroch, Tazy [The Tungus-Manchu peoples of Siberia and the Far East: Evenki. Even. Neghidal. Uil’ta, Nanai, Ulch, Udhegei, Oroch, Taz. Nanais. Ulchi. Udege. Orochi. Tazy], Coll. Narody i Kultury, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology im. N.N. Miklukho-Maclay Russian Academy of Science. M.: Nauka, 2022. (Peoples and cultures) pp. 402-416.
2022 Lavrillier, A., Gabyshev S. Traditsionnye ekologicheskie znaniia [Traditional environmental knowledge], In (Eds) L.I. Missonova, A.A. Sirina Tunguso-man’chzhurskie narody Sibiri i Dal’nego vostoka: Evenki. Eveny. Negidal’tsy, Uil’ta, Nanaitsy, Ul’chi, Udegeitsy, Oroch, Tazy [The Tungus-Manchu peoples of Siberia and the Far East: Evenki. Even. Neghidal. Uil’ta, Nanai, Ulch, Udhegei, Oroch, Taz. Nanais. Ulchi. Udege. Orochi. Tazy], Coll. Narody i Kultury, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology im. N.N. Miklukho-Maclay Russian Academy of Science. M.: Nauka, 2022. (Peoples and cultures). pp. 459-472.
2022 Lavrillier, A. Evenkiiskii kontsept onnir: chelovek, dukhi, sled, deistviia [The Evenki concept onnir: person, spirits, imprint, action], In (Eds) L.I. Missonova, A.A. Sirina Tunguso-man’chzhurskie narody Sibiri i Dal’nego vostoka: Evenki. Eveny. Negidal’tsy, Uil’ta, Nanaitsy, Ul’chi, Udegeitsy, Oroch, Tazy [The Tungus-Manchu peoples of Siberia and the Far East: Evenki. Even. Neghidal. Uil’ta, Nanai, Ulch, Udhegei, Oroch, Taz. Nanais. Ulchi. Udege. Orochi. Tazy], Coll. Narody i Kultury, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology im. N.N. Miklukho-Maclay Russian Academy of Science. M.: Nauka, 2022. (Peoples and cultures), pp. 513-519.
2022 Lavrillier, A., L. Egorova, and S. Gabysev. Der Klimawandel aus Sicht der Wissenschaft der sibirischen indigenen Bevölkerung (Evenken), In E. Kasten Mensch und Natur in Sibirien: Umweltwissen und nachhaltige Naturbeziehungen in Zeiten des Klimawandels. Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, pp. 121-161.
2022 Lavrillier, A., L. Egorova, and S. Gabyshev. Izmeneniye klimata s tochki zreniya nauki korennykh narodov Sibiri (evenkov) [Climate change from the point of view of science of the indigenous peoples of Siberia (Evenks)], In E. Kasten Chelovek i priroda v Sibiri: Ekologicheskiye znaniya i ustoychivyye prirodnyye otnosheniya vo vremena izmeneniya klimata [Man and nature in Siberia: Ecological knowledge and sustainable natural relations in times of climate change] Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, pp. 121-161.
2020-21 Lavrillier, A., and S. Gabyshev. A Siberian Indigenous Knowledge System for Understanding Climate Change, INTERACT – Stories of Arctic Science II, pp. 18-19, 115.
2020 Varlamov A., K. Galina, and A. Lavrillier. Electronic Devices for Safeguarding Indigenous Languages and Cultures (Eastern Siberia). In T. Koivurova, E.G. Broderstad, D. Cambou, D. Dorough, and F. Stammler F. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic, London and NY : Routledge, pp. 58-75.
Other articles
2022 Lavrillier A. Les peuples de l’Arctique au défi du changement permanent, Pour la Science N°117 Novembre/Décembre Hors série, « Notre avenir se joue aux pôles. Climat, biodiversité, niveau des mers.., pp. 104-111.
2021 Lavrillier A., Le pas léger sur la Terre des peuples des neiges, Atlas de la Terre : comment l’Homme a dominé la nature ?, co-édition La Vie-Le Monde, pp. 80-81.
Peer-reviewed Books
2017 Lavrillier A. and S. Gabyshev, An Arctic Indigenous Knowledge System of Landscape, Climate, and Human Interactions. Evenki Reindeer Herders and Hunters, Studies in Social
Editing special issues in scientific journals
2018 Lavrillier A., A. Dumont, and D. Brandisauskas (dir.) Human-Environment Relationships in Siberia and Northeast China. Knowledge, Rituals, Mobility and Politics among the Tungus Peoples, EMSCAT, 49.
Film
2016 Lavrillier A. Indigenous Evenki Analysis of the Snow Cover in the Siberian Taiga, 12 mn.
2008 Debats M., A. Lavrillier, H. Lecomte. School on the Move, 56 mn.