Alexandre Elsig

Alexandre Elsig is a historian and a SNSF Ambizione Fellow (2020-2024) at the College of Humanities. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Fribourg (2014) and was Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Fribourg and at the Swiss Distance University Institute. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Grenoble Alpes University and at the History of the Alps Study Centre in Mendrisio and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research. His research interests cover the environmental and social history of industry and the history of knowledge and scientific controversies. His current research project is devoted to the regulation of industrial toxicity in the 20th century and will question the techno-scientific containment of this issue and the chronic impotence of many regulatory policies. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journals traverse and Cahiers d'histoire du mouvement ouvrier and of the Executive Board of the RUCHE (Réseau universitaire de chercheurs en histoire environnementale) and the AEHMO (Association pour l'étude de l'histoire du mouvement ouvrier).