CREDA
The Centre for Research and Documentation on the Americas is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 7227) under the double supervision of the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 University and the CNRS and is a part of the CREDAL (Centre for Research and Documentation on Latin America), founded in 1968.
CREDA is a basic research unit in the social sciences specialised in the Americas, working mainly under Section 39 of the CNRS. Its main aims are to renew knowledge of the Americas and to develop social sciences through the confrontation of non-European fields – especially countries of the South – interdisciplinarity and exchanges with international researchers. The systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge on the Americas, thanks to the library of Pierre Monbeig and its outreach through IHEAL publishing, have led to a renewal of research topics and methods in order to develop our approach to social sciences.