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Circumscribing Knowledge: Paper Trials and Men of Learning in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Paper trials were a European-wide phenomenon in the eighteenth century. Born of the experimental culture that informed the “new sciences,” paper trial
Bodies in Paper: Popular Health Manuals and the Representation of Anatomy, 1890–1930
Starting in the last decade of the nineteenth century, paper models of the human body became a common consumer object affordable even to better-off wo
Architecture and Empire in the Reign of Yongle
My project for the Local Gazetteers workshop (August 2016) is to collect information on and map using GIS the sources of the nan-wood timbers used for
Cloth Britannia: A History-of-Technology Treatment of the Industrial Revolution
This book-length treatment of the British Industrial Revolution in textile production in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries makes use
Darwin and the "Natural" Science of Emotions
The aim of this project is to examine the methods and techniques that were developed by Darwin to turn feelings from widely different domains into obj
Beauty and the Microscope: The Use, Design, and Values of Fashionable Instruments in the Enlightenment
Ian Lawson's new project investigates the fashion for microscopes, and other optical instruments, in the eighteenth century—after their initial popula
Authors' Voices on Records and Radio 1889-1932
The role of media—and especially of the phonograph and gramophone—in storing and disseminating literary recitation and reading aloud from 1889 onward
Buzz: A Stimulating History of Sex Toys
The research project "Buzz: A Stimulating History of Sex Toys" seeks to understand why our attitudes towards sex toys have shifted over the past half
Dyeing for Permanence: Communities of Practice and the Making of Bingata
Celebrated as a traditional Okinawan craft, bingata (vermilion patterns) refers to a technique of printing colorful and intricate patterns on fabric t
After Mapping the Avant-Garde: Music, Experimentalism, Technology, Science
This dissertation project is an interdisciplinary research study on the networks of the first twenty years of the WDR’s Electronic Music Studio in Col