composition

• Stéphane Martin, President of Quai Branly Museum;
• Emmanuel Désveaux, anthropologist, North American specialty;
• Thierry Dufrêne, art historian, specialist in contemporary art history;
• Michael Houseman, anthropologist, specialist is West African art;
• Monique Jeudy-Ballini, anthropologist, art anthropology and Oceania specialist;
• Madeleine Leclair, anthropologist, ethnomusicology specialist;
• Pierre Lemonnier, anthropologist, Oceania specialist;
• Jean-Pierre Mohen, archeologist, Neolithic and proto-history specialist;
• Dominique Poulot, historian, specialist in the European history of heritage theory;
• Gilles Tarabout, anthropologist, India and Upper Asia specialist;
• Anne-Christine Taylor, anthropologist, Amazonia specialist.

Quai Branly Museum’s Scientific Evaluation Committee makes decisions regarding: 

• Requests or proposals by researchers;
• Research projects proposed by researchers who want to do work with certain collections or on a theme related to museology;
• Applications for doctoral and post-doctoral study scholarships, addressed to the museum, in response to a call for bids;
• Thesis prize awards;
• Results of research undertaken by Quai Branly scholarship holders and researchers.

This committee, when it deems necessary, shall have the option to call on outside experts.