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Agricultural Modernization and Biodiversity Conservation in the Twentieth Century
Helen Curry's research investigated the history of seed banking as a global conservation practice. Through this project, she sought to understand how
German Radio and the Development of Electric Music in the 1920s and 1930s
I am currently working on a book-length study of the role of scientific instrument makers, physicists, and later electrical engineers in shaping music
Convivencia. Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)
History of science, medicine, and technology has long struggled with how to organize itself in a manner in which it can do justice to the manifold for
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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
From Electrotype to the Electric Image: Global Vision, ca. 1830–1920
This project seeks to trace the emergence of a new archival logic of images: the image bank. Across the second half of the nineteenth century—as
Constructing Spaceship Earth
In Constructing Spaceship Earth, Perrin Selcer explores how and why scientists affiliated with UN agencies made the global-scale environment a so
Data That Travel: Climates between Africa, Europe, and the Globe
"Data That Travel: Climates Between Africa and Europe" examines the conditions of climatological data collection efforts in colonial Africa and the pr
Embodying Color: How Color is Made, Mobilized, and Owned in Traditional Craft Practice in South India
Craft producers in India stand in the shadow of deep divisions: rich/poor, urban/rural, modern/traditional, Brahmin/Dalit, educated scientist/illitera
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