Marie-Charlotte Leïla Lamy is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel, where she works on the SNSF project Killing to Keep–Violent Field Practices and Natural History in the Age of Empire. Within the project, her research focuses on material genealogy. Her broader interests focus on human–animal relations and the histories of zoos and zoology through the study of visual and material culture.

She studied art history and social sciences at the University of Lausanne and received her PhD from the University of Neuchâtel in summer 2025, under the supervision of Valérie Kobi (University of Neuchâtel) and Ersy Contogouris (Université de Montréal). Her dissertation, Animal impérial. Conquérir (par) le savoir zoologique dans les ménageries postrévolutionnaires, is forthcoming with Les presses du réel in 2027. She is also the editor of the volume De A(rt) à Z(oo): Penser l’animal en histoire de l’art, scheduled for publication in 2027.

Before joining the University of Basel, she held a fellowship at the German Center for Art History (DFK Paris) and she taught at the universities of Lausanne, Montréal, Geneva, and Neuchâtel.