History of Art and Architecture

Yannick Etoundi is a doctoral student at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and an Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. His main area of focus is on the colonial built environments of the African continent and the African diaspora, with a special emphasis on racial slavery, abolitionism, and the French colonial empire. His dissertation explores how the abolition of slavery and colonial emancipation reconfigured the built environments of the "Vielles colonies" (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, Guyane), to serve France's second imperial project of the later nineteenth century.

 

He holds a doctoral certificate in Collaborative Humanities from the Cogut Institute for the Humanities (Brown University), an M.Arch and a B.Arch from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a BSocSc in International Studies and Modern Languages from the University of Ottawa. He also has professional experience in architectural firms based in Yukon, Canada and Tokyo, Japan.