Dr Caroline Montebello

Publications

Chapitres d’ouvrage

• Avec Laure Piguet et Clarissa Y. Yang, « Mémorialisation et dynamiques de genre dans le cimetière de Plainpalais », in Taline Garibian, Sébastien Farré et Clarissa Y. Yang (éd.), Ensevelir et se souvenir. Histoires du cimetière de Plainpalais, Genève, La Baconnière, 2026 [à paraître].
• « Le prêt au cœur des circulations transimpériales de restes humains : la collection du South African Museum à Genève (1922-1948) », in Damiano Matasci et Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps (éd.), La « Genève (post)coloniale », Genève, Georg, 2025.

Volume édité

• Avec Laure Piguet (éd.), 100Elles*. Pour une féminisation de la mémoire collective genevoise, Genève, Georg, 2020

Recension

• « Compte rendu. Claire Brizon, Collections coloniales. À l’origine des fonds non européens dans les musées suisses, Genève, Seismo, 2023, 228 pages, 54 illustrations », Revue suisse d’histoire, vol. 74, n°3, 2024.

Recherche en cours

• Mapping Racial Thought and Epistemic Hierarchies: A Transnational History of International Anthropology Congresses (1920-1980)

  This postdoctoral project explores the power dynamics that shaped the international anthropological field from 1920 and 1980, challenging the dominant narrative of a linear shift from racial to culturalist paradigm after World War II. By adopting the concept of "field" as a semi-autonomous social space where actors compete for legitimaticy, the research uncovers how racial and biological thought was sustained, transformed, and contested during this period. The project pursues two main objective: 1) mapping transnational alliances and power relations that geographically and institutionally configured the anthropological fied, highlighting asymmetries between centers and peripheries in knowledge production; 2) analyzing how these configurations both reflected and reshaped espitemological and disciplinary frameworks, particularlye through paradigm conflicts (biological, cultural, and social). This research is innovative in three respects: it adopts a global and transnational perspective attentive to the geography of knowledge and the asymmetrical circulation between centers and peripheries; it focuses on international congresses - key arenas for the circulation and legitimization of anthropological knowledge - which have never been the subject of systematic study; and it draws on an original corpus of largely unexplored printed and archival sources (Geneva, London, Paris, Leiden) from 33 congresses organized by three major institutions: the International Institute of Anthropology, the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and the Colloque des anthropologistes de la langue française.