Rabanes is a medical anthropologist who works across the fields of Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Disability Studies. Previously, she practiced as a clinical psychologist in several French hospitals, with degrees from the University of Paris Diderot. Her current research and teaching bring together anthropological approaches to the study of health, race, embodiment, and the long shadow of history in the African Diaspora.
Research/Teaching Areas: Health Disparities, Medical Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Sociocultural Anthropology, Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, Decolonization, Ethnography
Current Projects: Rabanes has been conducting ethnographic research in Guadeloupe (French Caribbean) since 2012. Her book manuscript—Postcolonial Repair: Memory, Embodiment, and Therapeutics in the French Caribbean—explores how Guadeloupeans address the long aftermath of slavery and colonialism as well as ongoing entanglements with France in their everyday lives. Rabanes brings together health care, performance, and activism to examine personal and collective movements of repair. Her next project will turn to the work of Guadeloupean mental health professionals to see how they address intergenerational trauma and structural inequities in their clinical work.
