Member

Julie Gravier

Julie GRAVIER

Status
Permanent Researcher

Institution
CNRS, ThéMA Research Lab

Team
PARIS

Email
julie.gravier ( at ) cnrs.fr

Research themes
Settlement dynamics and city systems, organization and evolution of political territories (secular and religious), urban studies, land use and land dynamics

Transversalité(s) 2019 – 2023
Données et protocoles dans les humanités numériques

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I study long-term settlement dynamics. Two questions drive my research: why and how do settlement systems persist in the same places for extremely long periods of time? What is the political role of individuals and groups in perpetuating the social functioning and spatial organization of settlement systems? My aim is to understand the ways in which societies inhabit the world, taking into account very long-term dynamics and the temporal shifts in certain decisions on other processes. To achieve this, I study a wide range of chronological and cultural cases, mainly on local to macro-regional scales.

Career

2024-… | Permanent Researcher at CNRS in section 42, ThéMA laboratory

2022-2023 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Center for Social Analysis and Mathematics (CNRS UMR 8557 CAMS), Center for Historical Studies (CNRS UMR 8558 CRH), French National Agency for Research, SoDUCo Project – 23 months

2020-2021 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Archaïos – Archaeology, Culture and Heritage Company, AlUla Cultural Oasis Project (FR/KSA) – 14.5 months

2019-2020 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Territorial and Spatial Dynamics Laboratory of Excellence, University of Paris 1, Géographie-cités laboratory (CNRS UMR 8504) – 13 months

2019 | Design Engineer, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), France-Japan Fondation – 3 months

2018-2019 | Lecturer, CY Cergy University, Department of Geography – 12 months

2018-2019 | Lecturer, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, Department of Geography and Planning – 12 months

2014-2017 | Temporary Teaching Assistant, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, Department of Geography and Planning, Deparment of Archaeology

2013-2014 | Design Engineer, CNRS, French National Agency for Research, TransMonDyn Project – 13 months

2012-2018 | PhD in Geography, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

2010-2012 | MA in Archaeology, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

2007-2010 | BA in History, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

2007-2010 | BA in History of Art and Archaeology, University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

Scientific activities

  • Contribution to 5 national and international research programs since 2012, currently including ANR MAHDI (Market Access, Historical Development & Inequalities), PI: Thomas Thévenin
  • Contribution to a dozen research networks, including current co-piloting of CAA-FR (French chapter of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), Archéologie du fait urbain and SITRADA
  • Regular organization of conference or conference sessions (ECTQG, CIST, EAUH, GMPCA, ACQuA, TheoQuant) and workshops
  • Currently co-editor-in-chief of Rzine journal and editorial board member of Cybergeo (responsible for the “Systems, Modeling, and Geostatistics” section) and Mappemonde journals
  • Regular presentations at conferences, workshops and seminars (95+, including 34 invited talks)
  • Co-supervision of one PhD and four MA theses since 2018
  • Supervision of three internships and five engineers (8- to 14-month fixed-term contracts) since 2018
  • Participation in continuing education for PhD students and permanent and non-permanent higher education & research staff in spatial RDBMS and R data processing, including participation in/organization of 3 summer schools and 7 professional training courses

Publications

See publications by theme: https://jgravier.github.io/infos/publications/

55 documents

  • Julie Gravier. Les interactions entre villes dans le passé et la longue durée : confronter théorie et modèle géographiques à l'empirie archéologique et historique. Les interdisciplinarités de la géographie avec les sciences sociales, UMR Géographie-cités (UMR 8504), Mar 2026, Aubervilliers (Campus Condorcet), France. ⟨hal-05570942⟩
  • Julie Gravier, Fabien Paulus, Cécile Tannier. Pistes pour un modèle génératif de systèmes de villes hiérarchisés, fondé sur les lois d'échelle de différentes fonctions et activités urbaines. Dix-septièmes Rencontres de Théo Quant, Laboratoire ThéMA - Théoriser et Modéliser pour Aménager (UMR 6049), Feb 2026, Besançon, France. ⟨hal-05525438⟩
  • Julie Gravier, Stéphane Baciocchi, Pascal Cristofoli, Bertrand Duménieu, Edwin Carlinet, et al.. Evaluating and Understanding the Geocoding of City Directories of Paris (1787-1914): Data-Driven Geography of Urban Sprawl and Densification. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2026, 19 (4), pp.000814. ⟨10.63744/eh2pbu98sxve⟩. ⟨hal-05498176⟩
  • Julie Gravier. De l’information sur des relations à l’identification d’interactions entre villes sur 2000 ans. Journée d’étude Espace & Interactions, animation scientifique RETICULAR, Université Gustave Eiffel, en collaboration avec l’UMR Géographie-cités, AR9 du GdR CNRS MAGIS, Nov 2025, Champs-sur-Marne, France. ⟨hal-05414714⟩
  • Nicolas Frerebeau, Julie Gravier, Thomas Huet, Gwénaëlle Moreau, Sébastien Plutniak, et al.. Présentation du chapitre français de l’organisation internationale « Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology ». XXVe colloque d’Archéométrie, GMPCA 2025, UMR IDEES; UMR CRAHAM; UR GRHis; Association du GMPCA, Apr 2025, Rouen, France. ⟨hal-05416246⟩
  • Julien Charbonnier, Yasmin Kanhoush, Emmanuelle Devaux, Julie Gravier, Vincent Bernollin, et al.. AlUla Old Town and Oasis: Preliminary Results from the Study of the Farms Conducted within the Framework of the AlUla Cultural Oasis Project (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Leslie Rainer; Luis Fernando Guerrero Baca; Frank Matero; Lauren Meyer. Terra 2022 : Proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage : Looking Back, Moving Forward : Advances in Conservation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, June 7-10, 2022, Getty Conservation Institute, pp.488-494, 2025, 9781606069158. ⟨hal-05148634⟩
  • Julie Gravier. Out of cities’ boundaries but closer to the center. 16th Conference of the European Association of Urban History, EAUH 2024 Cities at the Boundaries, Sep 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-04691079⟩
  • Julie Gravier, Marc Barthelemy. A typology of activities over a century of urban growth. Nature Cities, 2024, 1 (9), pp.567-575. ⟨10.1038/s44284-024-00108-7⟩. ⟨hal-04691067⟩
  • Arthur Defauconpret, Julie Gravier, Julien Charbonnier, Gaël Gourret, Anne Leschallier de Lisle, et al.. Geolocation of Old Photographs and Rephotography in the Field: Contribution to a New Understanding of the al-ʿŪla Oasis in the Early 20th Century a.d.. Journal of Field Archaeology, 2024, 49 (8), pp.653-673. ⟨10.1080/00934690.2024.2391641⟩. ⟨hal-04694473⟩
  • Julie Gravier, Léa Hermenault. Articuler les apports de l’archéologie et de l’histoire grâce à ceux de la géographie. Retours d'expériences. Sources ! De l'archéologie aux fonds d'archives, Agence wallonne du patrimoine et les Archives de l’Etat, Dec 2023, Namur, Belgique. ⟨halshs-05253347⟩

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