Aurore Vermylen

Aurore Vermylen holds a PhD in Anthropology from UCLouvain, where she conducted her doctoral research at the Laboratory of Prospective Anthropology. Her dissertation, titled "Réfugiés à recruter. Le camp comme anti-chambre des mains d'œuvre (issues) de la guerre. Région des Grands Lacs en Afrique, Amérique du Nord, Globalisation", examined refugee camps and conflicts in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Her research interests focus on memory, the everyday experience of violence, and war narratives.

In September 2025, she will begin a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship titled "Echoing Wars". This project explores war narratives within a globally dispersed community—the Banyamulenge—both in the Great Lakes Region and in North America. As part of this fellowship, she will be based at both the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and UCLouvain.

During her fellowship at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Aurore will concentrate on publishing her PhD dissertation in the Collection Afrique(s) of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and on writing an article for Ethnopolitics, titled "Navigating Identity and Insecurity: The Evolving Relationship of the Banyamulenge Community with Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo Across Generations."

Aurore is affilated to the CRG Conflict Continuities.