Albane Gaudissart, PhD Candidate

After earning a BAA, Albane spent 12 years in international development and humanitarian work across Sub-Saharan Africa. As founder and director of the NGO TATU Project and later an HR Manager for Doctors Without Borders, she gained extensive field experience in community-based development work and humanitarian response.

In 2018, she returned to academia, studying Social and Cultural Anthropology under Dr. Archambault. Her Master’s research explored how Maasai youth in Engaresero, Tanzania, navigate overlapping social systems—balancing pastoral traditions, education, and tourism. In 2022, she began her PhD, researching chronic disease, informal care, and well-being in Northern Tanzania, with the supervision of Dr. Archambault.

In 2025, Albane will contribute to the SSHRC-funded project on wellbeing aspirations by conducting ethnographic work on the Kilimanjaro Marathon, in Tanzania, where she examines how body and health ideals are shaping and are shaped by fitness and running routines in a postcolonial context.

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