Eléonore Rimbault is a sociocultural anthropologist and a Harper-Schmidt Fellow as well as Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on ethics, marginalization, and social differentiation, particularly in South Asia, with a strong interest in how aesthetics and representation shape social realities.

She is especially known for her work on India’s circus industry, explored in her book project The Thrill of Disappearance, which examines labor, memory, and the idea of cultural disappearance in postcolonial India, including regions like Kerala.

Her broader work connects anthropology with questions of inequality, publicity, and everyday ethical life, and she has published in journals such as Public Culture and Asian Ethnology. She is also involved in translation projects, including translating B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste into French.