Samir Boumediene
CNRS researcher at the Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (Lyon)
Samir Boumediene is a CNRS researcher at the Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (Lyon) and has previously held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute (Berlin) and the University of Cambridge. His PhD, completed at the University of Lorraine and Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), was devoted to the history of medicinal plants in the New World and was published in 2016 under the title The Colonization of Knowledge (La colonisation du savoir. Une histoire des plantes médicinales du « Nouveau Monde » [1492-1750], Vaulx-en-Velin, Éditions des Mondes à faire, 2016). He has subsequently published several articles on the history of drugs, medicine, and plants. His current research, begun at the Villa Medici and the Dutch Institute in Rome, and which he is pursuing as a fellow at I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence), focuses on the notion of discovery in the early modern period and on the history of questionnaires.