Gaëtan Thomas
I am currently researching the history and politics of health infrastructures in Gabon and in France.
Researcher
Associate member
- E-mail: gaetan@umich.edu
Gaëtan Thomas is a historian. He teaches at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and is a researcher associated with the médialab at Sciences Po Paris.
He is currently studying the history of medicine and related infrastructures in Gabon. With Guillaume Lachenal, he is also conducting an investigation into the spatial history of the former Claude-Bernard Hospital in Paris.
He previously taught social sciences of health at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and political history at Sciences Po. His doctoral dissertation on the history of epidemiology and vaccination in France (EHESS, 2018) was supported by numerous fellowships, including a yearlong Fulbright grant at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. This project was awarded the Alain Desrosières Prize for an outstanding contribution to the history of statistics. He is the author of Vaccination, histoire d’un consentement (éditions du Seuil, 2024) and, with Guillaume Lachenal, of Atlas historique des épidémies (éditions Autrement, 2023).
In addition to numerous publications in the history of medicine and science, he has edited and translated into French two prominent American art critics associated with the cultural history of AIDS: Douglas Crimp (Le point du jour, 2016) and Craig Owens (Même pas l'hiver, 2022).