Gwendoline Lemaitre

Gwendoline Lemaitre's research focuses on populations displaced within Georgia during the Soviet era. She is interested in the impact that such displacements have on people's relationships with the regions they left and their new regions of residence. For her PhD, she focused specifically on the Tush, a transhumant pastoral population in eastern Georgia, and their ability to produce and maintain a discontinuous territory. During this period, she worked at the University of Nanterre's Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, with which she remains affiliated.For her postdoctoral research, Gwendoline Lemaitre will examine how the movement of stones from the mountains to the plains can facilitate intergenerational knowledge transmission about distant places. From January 2026 to December 2027, she conducts her postdoctoral research, with the Fyssen Foundation fellowship, at the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit in Cambridge.