Agathe has conducted anthropological research in urban settings with Indigenous peoples from Colombia. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of the anthropology of migration and the anthropology of care/emotion to form a detailed analysis of social transformations.  

Drawing on twenty months of fieldwork, her doctoral thesis develops the concept of ‘movement’ to grasp the intimate experiences of structural changes amongst the Emberá Dobidá, a semi-nomadic Indigenous group in Colombia. It shows that a context of sedentarisation and urbanisation, recently brought about by the Colombian multicultural project, has disrupted the movements of Emberá Dobidá people, along with the reciprocal gestures of attention and the flows of emotions which emerge from them. Agathe analyses how Emberá Dobidá women in particular use the porosity of their bodies to attune themselves to the precarious translation between these various scales and textures of movement and preserve a delicate balance between rootedness and mobility, giving and receiving, openness and closedness. Focusing on women who have recently settled in the urban slums of Medellín, Agathe aims to explain the ruptures lived by these women at a time of crisis. While achieving mastery over chaotic movements becomes a central preoccupation for them to maintain a sense of personal and collective wellbeing, it is also an impossible task to perform in the face of the growing intersectional inequalities Emberá Dobidá women live in the city today.

Since 2020, Agathe has taught a range of core and specialist courses, from anthropological theory to economic anthropology. Agathe has also taught for the LSE Summer School, and worked as a study adviser for LSE LIFE and research supervisor for LSE GROUPS. Alongside a PhD in Anthropology from the LSE, Agathe holds a BSc from Sciences Po Paris, a MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and an MRes in Anthropology from University College London. Her doctoral research has been funded by the ESRC and has been awarded a number of prizes, including the Rosemary Firth Award and Firth Prize.