Member

Julie GRAVIER
Status
Post-doctoral fellow – ANR SoDUCo
Institution
EHESS, UMR 8557 Center for social analysis and mathematics, UMR 8558 Center for historical researches
Position in Géographie-cités
Research Associate
Julie Gravier studies settlement systems. Her research explores the sustainability of settlements through two main themes: the ways in which populations interact with each other over time and how political institutions and their actors shape social relations and how this affects the physical organization of space. To better understand these processes, she compares settlement systems at different chronological periods and in different locations around the world.
She currently studies with Marc Barthelemy the co-evolution of diverse activities in Paris in the 19th century.
Training
PhD
2012-2018 | PhD in Geography, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and UMR Géographie-cités. Thesis: Deux mille ans d’une ville en système. Proposition d’une démarche appliquée au cas de Noyon, tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02367262. Direction: Lena Sanders and Nicolas Verdier
Master
2010-2012 | Master’s Degree in Archaeology, Paris 1 University, specialization in Medieval Archaeology. Master thesis produced in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture and the City of Noyon. Master 2 thesis: Synthèse Archéologique Urbaine. Topographie historique de la ville de Noyon du Ier s. apr. J.-C. au début du XXIe s. (Oise), hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03083696. Direction: Joëlle Burnouf, Quentin Borderie, Bruno Desachy
Bachelor
2007-2010 | Bachelor’s Degree in History, Paris 1 University
2007-2010 | Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and Archaeology, Paris 1 University
PhD Thesis
Title
A city within its systems of cities over two thousand years : the case study of Noyon as an approach proposal
Abstract
This doctoral research seeks to understand the evolution of a city along the entire duration of its existence. The research is built upon the case-study of Noyon, a French city founded in the 1st century AD. Our approach can be synthesised in three steps. First of all, we assess the functional intra-urban structure so as to establish the trajectory of the city over 2 000 years. Then, we identify the relative position of the city within the system of cities it interacts with. This position is studied in terms of political, administrative and economic features. Finally, by confronting the intra-urban trajectory and the relative position of the city, we can investigate to what extent the history of a city and the history of the other cities of the system are united. The vastly long term considered raises two main issues. Firstly, the societies studied, over 2 000 years, are highly distinct. Comparing them involves to question the consistency of the definition of spatio-temporal entities, in order to study their trajectories. Secondly, this method requires to work with archaeological, textual and iconographic data, which are sporadic and scarce, especially when studying large scales processes. This turns a large part of our research into an investigation where many clues have to be collected in order to retrace some long-disappeared spatial configurations and facts. All of this requires new methodologies, along with a need to unambiguously delineate the paths relative to knowledge building, in order to offer a reproducible study of cities in systems over the long term.
Thesis prize
2019 Geography thesis prize of the GdR MAGIS
Experiences
Post-doctoral Fellow
since 2022 | SoDUCo ANR project, Social Dynamics in Urban Context: open tools, models, and data – Paris and its suburbs, 1789-1950, at EHESS UMR 8557 CAMS and UMR 8558 CRH
2020-2021 | Archaïos – Archaeology, Culture & Heritage Company, in the International AlUla Cultural Oasis Project (UCOP) in Saudi Arabia
2019-2020 | LabEx DynamiTe and UMR Géographie-cités, in WPs networks and territories and mobilities
Engineer
2019 (3 months) | EHESS, France-Japan Foundation, in the projet City Making in the 21st Century: Global Challenges and Local Practices: Paris, Tokyo, London, New York
2013-2014 (14 months) | CNRS, in TransMonDyn ANR project, Modeling the major transitions in the evolution of settlement systems in Old and New Worlds
Teaching
2018-2019 | Teaching Assistant in Geography at CY Cergy Paris University (ATER)
2017-2018 | Teaching Assistant in Geography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (ATER)
since 2013 | Temporary Lecturer at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Geography and Archaeology
2010-2012 | Tutoring in Medieval and Modern Archaeology for undergraduate students at Paris 1 University
Scient. activities
Research program
2022-2023 | Member of SoDUCo ANR project, led by Julien Perret
2021-2025 | Co-creation of SHARK project in Alaska, funded by the Excavation Commission of the French Ministry For Europe and Foreign Affairs, led by Claire Alix
2020-2023 | Member of UCOP project in Saudi Arabia, funded by the French Agency fo AlUla development, led by Julien Charbonnier. Director of the GIS and Databases Unit in the project in 2020-2021
2012-2014 | Member of TransMonDyn ANR project, led by Lena Sanders
Research network
2018-… | Co-animation of the scientific committee of the annual workshops of the collective project Archéologie du Fait Urbain of the UMR 7041 ArScAn
2015-… | Member of the GdR MAGIS – AP Ontology
2014-… | Member of the collective project ArchéoFab of the UMR 7041 ArScAn
2013-… | Member of the WP Systèmes de peuplement sur le temps long – LabEx DynamiTe
2016-2021 | Member of the Theory and method in Landscape archaeology Commission of the IUSPP, UNESCO
Teaching/supervision
since 2018 | Co-supervision of 3 Master’s theses in Archaeology (Constance Thirouard M1 and M2 and Sofian Boudia M2) and scientific tutoring the current PhD of C. Thirouard, funded by the LabEx DynamiTe
Other
2020 | Co-creation of the session Long-Term Evolution of Territories and Settlements in the colloquium CIST 2020
2019 & 2021 | Co-creation of the session Spatial Computation in Archaeology and History in the colloquium ECTQG 2019 and co-editor of a Special Collection of the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology that ensued
since 2018 | Correspondent for Cybergeo Journal, reviewing paper in 2022
2014-2016 | Representing the PhD students in the UMR Géographie-cités
Field
since 2006 | Regular archaeological fieldwork. Excavations, including rescue archaeology, and pedestrian surveys in France, Belgium and Saudi Arabia
Publications
Communications
Teaching
Qualifications for Section 21 and Section 23 by the CNU in 2019