
Benjamin Bothereau is doctor in the history of science and technology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris / CAK Centre Alexandre Koyré). His research focuses on the history of public lighting in eighteenth–century Paris and Barcelona, with a special interest in the historical anthropology of politics through biographies of artefacts. He graduated from the industrial engineering school Ecole Centrale de Lyon and has worked as a consultant for Paris and Barcelona public lighting (CITELUM Iberica and EVESA). He was a postdoctoral researcher at Centre de Recherches Historiques CRH (2019-2020) before teaching cultural mediation and ordinary culture of science and technology at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM Paris).
Fields of research
- Urban history 18th -19th c. (Paris, Barcelona)
- History of Science & Technology : history of streetlighting
- Transnational History France-Spain : circulations of technology, go-betweens
- Technical and political imaginary
- philosophy of G. Simondon
- Material Culture
- Environmental History: River-Society 18th c.
