Soraya Boudia (born 1966) is a French professor. She researches

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

and the history of science, technology and the environment at the

Paris Cité University Paris Cité University () is a public research university located in Paris, France. It was created by decree on 20 March 2019, resulting from the merger of Paris Descartes (Paris V) and Paris Diderot (Paris VII) universities, established fol ...

and in the Cermes3 laboratory. She was awarded the

CNRS Silver Medal The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, re ...

Life

Soraya Boudia studied physics, information and communication sciences, and history of science. Her thesis in the history of science was directed by Dominique Pestre and dedicated to

Marie Curie Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was List of female ...

. She directed the Curie Museum from 1999 to 2003, then held a position as a teacher-researcher at the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Johannes Sturm, it was a center of intellectual life during ...

from 2003 to 2011, and at the

University of Paris-Est The Paris-Est Sup is an association of universities and higher education institutions (ComUE) federating two universities and other institutions of higher education and research in the Paris-Est (eastern Paris) region. Originally organized as ...

from 2012 to 2014, before joining the University of Paris Cité. Since 2022, Soraya Boudia has been co-pilot of the IRiMa exploratory priority research programme and equipment (PEPR) ("Integrated Risk Management for More Resilient Societies in the Era of Global Change"), which aims to "strengthen the position of French scientists and experts in the international community, bring a fresh perspective and contribute to transforming the modes of risk and disaster management at different scales". She studies

agnotology Within the sociology of knowledge, agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product, influence opinion, or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccur ...

Works

* * Boudia, Soraya, Angela N.H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt and Jody A. Roberts. 2022. ''Residues: Thinking Through Chemical Environments''. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2v55j30. .

References

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