On the Luxury of Wandering: Catherine Benoit at TEDxConnecticutCollege 2014

On the Luxury of Wandering: Borders, Walls, and the Non-Circulation of People in a Globalized World

Catherine Benoît is a Professor of Anthropology and a Research affiliate with the University of Antilles-Guyane. Professor Benoit's research projects have developed in two directions. First, she explores the emergence and construction of individual and collective identities in the Caribbean in relation to the bodily experience of space and nature. Second, she examines immigration issues and border reinforcement in the Caribbean. Benoit has been a post-doctoral fellow at the African American Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley; Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University; and at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, at Yale University. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the French Ministry of Culture, Agence nationale de recherche sur le Sida, Fondation pour la recherche médicale, and UNESCO.

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