Naïdé Ferchiou

In 1968 Ferchiou earned a laurea at the University of Tunisia with a thesis on the mausolea of the region of Maktar. In 1972 she received her doctorate at the Sorbonne with a dissertation entitled L'architecture romaine du Haut-Tell tunisien: recherches sur le rythme modulaire sur les thèmes décoratifs (Roman architecture of the Tunisian High Tell: research on the modular rhythm of decorative themes), under the supervision of Gilbert Charles-Picard, Roland Martin, and René Ginouvès. She finished her academic work with a State Doctorate in 1985 at the University of Aix-Marseille, with a thesis entitled L'évolution du décor architectonique en Afrique proconsulaire des derniers temps de Carthage aux Antonins (The Evolution of architectonic décor in Proconsular Africa from the late Carthaginian through the Antonine periods) under the direction of Pierre Gros and with Paul Albert Février, René Ginouvès, Gilbert Charles-Picard and Friedrich Rakob on the committee.

In 1983 she began to work at the National Institute for Tunisian Patrimony (لمعهد الوطني للتراث), first as maître de recherches and later as directeur de recherches, working with excavations, restoration and management of patrimony. Further she taught history of architecture at the University of Tunisia. She was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and associate researcher at the Institute of Research on Architecture (IRAA) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).^[1][2]