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The author and his project

Romain Gressot - Portrait

Romain Gressot

PhD student in Anthropology

Born in 1995 in France, in Longjumeau, Romain Gressot is writing a PhD in anthropology. Trained at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), he develops a multidisciplinary approach to research, favouring long-term fieldwork.

Education Social anthropology — UT2J Toulouse, then EHESS Paris
Languages FR / EN / RU / ES

Scientific project

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What is an "ethnographic blog"?

Not a travel blog.

"I hate travelling and explorers"

— Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

It is a fieldwork tool. So that the people I work with understand what I am making with them. Especially when I do not speak their language. They can scan my QR code, read my work and contact me. The site works in Europe, Russia and China, in four languages.


It is also — in a technological context where the internet, smartphones and AI are omnipresent — an innovative form of writing in the social sciences, to share research as it is being done, to improve its conclusions as well as their reception.


Its lifespan is that of the duration of the PhD. Then it will be archived, like the other data aggregated by the researcher.

Background & fieldwork

About ten years

2026
Enrolment in a PhD at the University of ... — Constructing identity and the body through ice water. Sino-Russian cross-border interactions via a globalised sport.
December 2025
First publication: Clown d'ethnographe, Cahiers de la littérature orale.
April 2025
Paper at the conference "Rencontres de l'anthropologie et de l'ethnologie du sport et du corps", in Besançon — presentation of the avenues and method of the exploratory fieldwork.
August 2024 — January 2025
Second exploratory fieldwork in Russia and China.
August — November 2023
First exploratory fieldwork in Russia.
2022
Obtained a Master's degree in anthropology at the EHESS in Paris.
2017
Obtained a Bachelor's degree in anthropology at the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès.