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The Evolutionary Future: A History of Humanity's Biological Destiny
Typically, we think of evolution as a theory that explains the present in light of the past. Scientific explorations into the convoluted history
Seizing the Intangible: Gestures as Objects of the Human Sciences in the Long Nineteenth Century
Although gestures have been the object of codification within rhetorical traditions since Antiquity, the project to study them scientifically only cry
The Electric Modern: Modernity, Labor, and the Visual Archive
This project explores the history of electrification through the lens of the visual strategies and representation techniques of the Allgemeine Elektri
From Form to Norm: The Systematization of Values in German Design
As both normed object and carrier of further norms, the two-dimensional sheet of paper was the center of a systematized corpus of norms. My project po
Good Doctors: A Story of Governing and Knowing from Medieval to Modern Europe
Physicians were not only healers and naturalists. They helped govern communities across Europe from medieval to modern times. This project is about th
Ancients and Moderns: A Cultural History of Modern Science in India (1600–2000)
India’s encounter with modern science began in 1615 when an envoy of the East India Company presented a telescope to the Mughal emperor, Jahangir. The
The Steady State of Cultures: Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and American Anthropology, ca. 1930–1950
My dissertation explores the biographies of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, two pioneering anthropologists, in the years between 1930 and 1950. By
Instituting Anthropology: The Circulation of Scientists and Ethnographic Materials Between North America, Germany, and Austria, 1883–1933
This project examines the impact of the circulation of, and exchanges with, German-speaking scientists on the practice and institutionalization of Ame
Funding Institutions, Austrian Academy of Sciences
La Falsa Alchimia de la Quale Tanta Stima già ne Feci: Lomazzo’s Thought on Alchemy
In some of the writings by the sixteenth-century painter and writer from Milan, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538–1592), we find intriguing hints to alchim
Funding Institutions, The Warburg Institute
Maturity in the Age of Wissenschaft: The Emergence of Adolescence, 1760–1910
This project examines the diverse attempts by scientific practitioners to chronicle, explain, and represent the transition between childhood and adult
Funding Institutions, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)