I have been a lecturer (*Maîtresse de conférence*) in the history of science and health at the University of Strasbourg since 2023. I am a modern historian, specializing in the material cultures of nature, science and health. My work lies at the intersection of the history of scientific and natural heritage, the work and practices of the natural and medical sciences, and the history of gender.
In my dissertation “[Capital nature: a history of French municipal museums of natural history, 1795-1870](https://cadmus.eui.eu/entities/publication/afadca07-3500-57a6-95d2-6fca8270a234)” (EUI, Florence; 2019), I sought to question the centrality of a national natural history museum model by looking at the practices and modalities of natural knowledge production in the French provincial space (Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse). In particular, I demonstrated the fundamental role played by natural history museums in controlling the surrounding natural environment and in supporting the development of narratives to establish these cities as natural capitals.
From 2018 à 2022, I held teaching fellowships at Université de Lille (2018-2020) and at Université de Strasbourg (2020-2022).
My current research addresses the history of material cultures and of scientific heritage in three different ways:
- The labour and gender of collections. In this new project, I am looking at who produced the objects that compose contemporary science and health collections, from the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century. I have a particular focus on microscope slides. To support the development of this project, I was awarded ANR Access ERC springboard funding (https://https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-23-AERC-0002) entitled “Bodies of glass: collecting and preserving human remains on histological slides, 1850-1990” (2024-2025). Previously, I led the project “Expériences: études situées de l'écologie des savoirs” for which I obtained two years' funding (MISHA 2023-2024).
- Historicising human remains in medical collections with Tricia Close-Koenig. In the wake of a much renewed history of collections focusing on the history of *collecting* practices, we seek to contextualize medical collections to complicate the much debated question of the place of human remains in heritage spaces.
- The environmental history of collections. I am a member of the [Collection<>Ecologies collective](https://collecte.hypotheses.org/). The collective works as an arena to interrogate the relation between the history of collections, material cultures of nature and environmental history in order to explore methodological avenues for an environmental history of collections, but also how collections can foster new methods of environmental history. We organize a monthly online seminar kindly hosted by the Philadelphia CHSTM: www.chstm.org/group/collection-ecologies.
I am a collaborator to other other collective projects: in 2022-2023, I was a postdoctoral researcher for the SNSF/Sinergia project "[Neverending Infectious Diseases. The case of syphilis, from 1859 to the present day](https://neverending.unige.ch/)". I am currently a scientific collaborator on the “ArchiMed - Mining Medical Archives” project (https://archimed.iml-strasbourg.fr/).
Full CV coming soon!
