Didier Nativel – Vice chair -en

Didier Nativel

Vice chair

Historian – CESSMA

Didier Nativel is vice-chair of GRIP and as such a member of its steering committee. Director of the CESSMA laboratory (Centre for Social Science Studies on the African, American and Asian Worlds), which is under the supervision of the University of Paris, IRD and Inalco, he is Professor of African and Indian Ocean History at the University of Paris. A specialist in the urban and cultural history of Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries , his research falls particularly within the scope of GRIP’s axes 1 (global urbanities) and 2 (circulation).