Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo is a Marie Curie C2W post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Namur. Her postdoctoral project examines the links between colonialism and the history of gender-based violence, currently focusing on Senegal during the interwar period. She is a member of the PaTHs research centre at the University of Namur with secondments at IFAN (Dakar, Senegal) and CNRS (Paris, France).

Ibáñez Aristondo's doctoral research retraced the impact of the First World War on perceptions of gender-based violence and sexual consent in French culture and literature (City University of New York, 2022). She presented and published elements stemming from this research in international peer-reviewed journals, conferences, workshops, invited talks, and has been working towards publishing her first monograph in 2025. Ibáñez Aristondo has also been involved in a variety of collaborative projects. At the City University of New York, she launched and led a digital resource and workshops specialising in pedagogy in higher education. She currently facilitates an interdisciplinary working group on gender at the University of Namur.

Before joining UNamur, Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo worked as a teacher, freelance journalist, and news editor in New York, Paris, Lyon, and Philadelphia. And before all of that, she was a lower-income first-generation high school and college student who graduated in Philosophy and Media Studies while working as a waitress, salesperson, and more.

Research Interests: 

Narratives of gender-based violence and sexual consent across time;

History of gender, France, West Africa, and colonisation;

History and memory of conflicts (World War One, colonialism);

French and Francophone studies (19th, 20th and 21st century);

Imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history;

Media studies, Legal History;

Pedagogy in Higher Education