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Zoe BRAY (PhD)

Artist and Anthropologist

British & French citizen (languages spoken: English, French, Spanish, Italian and Basque).

My work in brief

Social Anthropology: Art and ethnographic methods: ‘Ethnographic painting’ and ‘Seeing ethnography’. Art and Politics: ‘Art and artists in their political context’
Art: Naturalist-realist painting, Life-size portraits painted from life. Illustration and cartoons. Dioramas and zoetropes.
Current projects combine my artwork with ethnography.

1. Academic CV

2002

PhD in Social and Political Science, European University Institute (EUI), Italy.
Thesis title: ‘Boundaries and Identities in Bidasoa-Txingudi, on the Franco-Spanish frontier’.
Thesis committee: Michael Keating (EUI), Bo Strath (EUI), Jeremy MacClancy (Oxford Brookes University), Joseba Zulaika (UNR).
PhD thesis was awarded the Basque Culture Prize from the Basque Studies Society (Eusko Ikaskuntza) and City of Bayonne, France, in 2006.

1998

MA Honors in Social Anthropology, Edinburgh University, UK.
Thesis title: ‘Language and Identity in French Basque Village Politics’.

2014 - 2016

Lady Davis Visiting Professor, European Forum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2011 - 2015

Assistant Professor (on tenure track), University of Nevada Reno (UNR), USA.
Affiliation: Center for Basque Studies.
Tasks: Research (60%, of which 20% concerns artistic activities), Teaching (1-1) (20%), Service (20%).

2004 - 2006

Research Associate for EUROREG.
Research project on Regions, Minorities and European Policies.
Research grant: European Commission’s Sixth Framework Program.
Location: European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Tasks: Project management, budget management, research (data collection and analysis, writing of reports and papers) on European policies towards border regions with large minority populations.

2002 - 2004

Research Assistant at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy.

1997 - 1998

Researcher at the European Bureau for Lesser–Used Languages, Brussels, Belgium.