Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales 105 boulevard Raspail 75006 PARIS France massard@ehess.fr

Since 2006 Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud has been a professor of History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. Her chair is the first chair in environmental history created in France. She is also a researcher at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (Centre for Historical research). In this centre, she heads the Groupe de recherche en histoire de l’environnement urbain (urban environmental history group), created in 2008 and which involves a dozen of researchers. A founding member of the European Society for Environmental history, she has been a member of its Board since its creation in 1999 and her President since June 2007. She also originated, in common with Christoph Bernhardt, Berlin, the so-called “Roundtables in urban environmental history”, which have met bi-annually since 2000. From 1999 to 2007 she was a member of the Société française d’histoire urbaine Board (French Society for Urban History). Since 2008 she has been a member of the Steering Committee of the British Urban History Group. She is also a member of the Historical Committee of the Ministry of Ecology and sustainable Transport and Planning Scientific Council, and a member of the editorial board of several journals, including Histoire Urbaine, Urban History, Les Annales de Mines, Responsabilité et Environnement, Global Environment. Originally trained as a demographic, social and economic historian, she is a specialist of cities and industry in 19th and 20th centuries. Her recent research have dealt with industrial pollution in nineteenth century France. Her last book, A social history of industrial pollution, 1789-1914, is forthcoming at the Presses de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes. She is currently involved in a comparative study on the beginnings of industrial regulation in matter of nuisances in Europe and beyond. Other current fields of interests include social and environmental inequalities and injustice, municipal and labour movement attitudes toward industrial nuisances, law and environment in history.