Francine Saillant


Francine Saillant is a Canadian anthropologist and intellectual.

Biography

Saillant received her Ph.D. from McGill University in 1987. She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Laval University since 1996; and serves as the Director of the Centre interuniversitaire sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions. Saillant has directed the efforts of the journal Anthropologie et sociétés for more ten years.
She was appointed in 2008 to be a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2013, she was co-chair of the 81st Congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir.

Selected works