Dr. Archambault is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University and co-editor of AFRICA: Journal of the International Institute.

She received her PhD in anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and held several teaching positions in England, including at the London School of Economics, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Oxford, before joining Concordia University in 2016.

Her work is based on ethnographic research in southern Mozambique and focuses on themes of intimacy, suburbanization, affect, and embodiment. Cutting across much of her research is an interest in how materiality and temporality intersect in the crafting of lives worth living. She is the author of Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique (2017), and her recent work has been published in American Ethnologist, Journal of Southern African Studies, Critique of Anthropology, and City & Society. She is currently working on a book project on well-being and the cultural politics of sweat in Mozambique.  

In 2018, she started a FRQSC and SSHRC-funded project on wellness aspirations in Mozambique exploring urban exercise, community health, and city-making in a context where overweight and obesity are becoming a growing concern.  She has conducted research in various fitness sites in Mozambique, with a focus on community fitness, the appropriation of urban infrastructure, and the development of health-conscious subjectivities.