Christelle Rabier

Biographie

Christelle Rabier is a historian of science and medicine, currently a senior lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Marseille. Her work combines economic history, the history of medical knowledge, and the broader material and political history of the social sciences. Over the past decade, she has developed a comparative and material approach to understanding how scientific, medical, and social knowledge has been produced, circulated, and institutionalised from the early modern period to the 19th century. Her academic training includes a PhD in History from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, focusing on surgeons in Paris and London during the long 18th century, and an habilitation to supervise research on scholarly information in Europe and in the colonies from the 15th to the 21st century. Her projects often bring historical insight to contemporary questions concerning expertise, archives, and institutional practices in the humanities and social sciences. She has published extensively on the politics of knowledge, techniques, and professional practice, and has co-edited collective volumes and special issues addressing epistemological, feminist, and decolonial perspectives in the material and political history of the social sciences. In continuity with this work, she is developing a research field on decolonial experiences in Marseille.