Martin Robert is Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is also a research associate at CERMES3 (CNRS, Villejuif) and at the Centre d'histoire des régulations sociales (Université du Québec à Montréal). His research interests include the history of medical education, the nineteenth century, the British and French empires, the history of medicine, the history of Quebec/Canada, and the history of death. His book, Cette science nécessaire. Dissections humaines et formation médicale au Québec was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2023.
He holds a PhD in history from the Université du Québec à Montréal and spent ten years as a research assistant at the university's Centre d'histoire des régulations sociales. His first postdoctoral fellowship, at the University of Oxford (2019-2021), focused on the history of medical schools in Canada and India in the context of the British Empire. His second postdoctoral fellowship, at the Institut francilien recherche, innovation, société (2022-2023), focused on the history of medical education in the British and French empires.
He has received several research grants, including from the École française de Rome, was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and was awarded both the thesis prize of the Société française d'histoire des sciences et des techniques and the Jean-Charles Sournia prize of the Société française d'histoire de la médecine for his doctoral thesis.
