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Celia Miralles Buil is a Lecturer in the history of health and the environment at the Université de Strasbourg, affiliated with the SAGE laboratory (UMR 7363) within the Faculty of Medicine. She is a member of the Department of History of Life and Health Sciences (DHVS), where she conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of medicine, urban development, and environmental risk.
Her research focuses on the social history of health in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on urban environments in Iberian cities such as Lisbon and Barcelona. Key themes include infectious diseases, tuberculosis, sanitary borders, quarantine policies, and the role of architecture in public health. She explores how cities managed health and technological risks, especially in the context of migration, port activity, and environmental pollution.
The trends in her publications reveal a strong focus on historical public health policy, the evolution of sanitary control mechanisms, and the transformation of urban spaces into health infrastructures. Her work often draws on comparative urban studies and integrates science and technology studies (STS) perspectives, particularly in analyzing technoscientific imaginaries and material approaches to containment.
Scientific and Academic Contributions:
- Research Axis at SAGE: Environment, health, science and society
- Co-directed conference proceedings on containment and threat management in the modern world (2022)
- Regular presenter at international conferences including the European Association of Urban History and the European Society for the History of Science
Teaching and Advising:
She teaches across multiple faculties, including:
- Faculty of Medicine: L1SPS – transversal SHS courses on environments and infectious diseases
- UFR Social Sciences: L2SPS and L3SPS – Introduction to science and technology studies, History and anthropology of health-environment relations
- IEP (Institut d'Études Politiques): Master’s courses in Environmental Social Sciences and Sciences, Societies, Policies
- UFR Historical Sciences: Methodology of research in history
Laboratory and Collaborative Work:
Based at SAGE (Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe), she collaborates with scholars across France and Europe. She has worked with Frédéric Vagneron and Alexis Zimmer on medical humanities teaching initiatives and participates in networks such as the Quarantine Studies Network and EHESS seminars. Her research is deeply embedded in collaborative, interdisciplinary environments that bridge history, sociology, and public policy.
