Historian, Research Fellow at the IRD of the Institute of African Worlds (IMAf), member of the Ecoppaf programme, assigned to the History Department of the University of Burundi. Christine Deslaurier's work focuses on the history of the late colonial state in the Great Lakes region, particularly in Burundi. Beyond decolonization, it addresses contemporary developments in Burundian society through a socio-history of political parties and disciplinary institutions (prison, army), modes of control and escapism of social bodies (domesticity) and processes of reconciliation and memorialization.