Draft:Véronique Ginouvès

Véronique Ginouvès (Born in 1961 in Marseille), is a French archivist and senior research engineer based at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH) in Aix-en-Provence. She received the CNRS Crystal Medal in 2016 and the Ordre national du Mérite in 2017.

Activities
Ginouvès served as the head of the sound archives at the MMSH from 1997 to 2021 and, as of September 2021, is responsible for the research archives sector at the SHS media library. Alongside Maryline Crivello, a professor at Aix-Marseille University, she co-directs the Image-Sound Pole, Digital Practices in Humanities and Social Sciences. Since 2015, Ginouvès has been the educational coordinator for the "Mediations of History and Digital Humanities" stream of the Master's program "Archive and Library Studies, Mediations of History and Digital Humanities ".

Ginouvès has played a significant role in various national and international projects, including those endorsed by DARIAH and the Europeana Sounds program. She has been involved in ANR programs such as Colosturm, Histinéraires, and PICCH, addressing polyvocal interpretations of contested colonial pasts. Additionally, she contributed to the European program "Preservation and Promotion of the Heritage Archives of Tanzania: the African Liberation Heritage Archives" (TAHAP).

Throughout her career, Ginouvès has been active in training sessions and seminars globally, particularly in Latin America, where she collaborated with a network of archivists on the safeguarding of ethnographic sound archives (CASAE). In November 2023, she served as a visiting professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Ginouvès holds the role of managing editor for the journal Sonorités  and manages the Carnets de recherche de la Phonothèque  research blog. She actively contributes to editorial and ethical discussions on the Transcrire platform, part of the Consortium of Ethnologists within the Very Large Research Infrastructure ("Très Grande Infrastructure de Recherche", TGIR) Huma-Num, facilitating the transcription, verification, and correction of digitized manuscript documents from the archives of humanities and social sciences researchers.

Distinctions

 * CNRS Crystal medal in 2016
 * Chevalier de l'ordre national du mérite (French national order of merit) in 2017