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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
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
Harmonies at Work: Musical Instruments and the Transfer of Knowledge in Early Acoustics
This project concerns the role of musical instruments and artisanal knowledge in early acoustics. It is through instruments and objects that sound, ot
Crystals, Colloids, and Fibers: The Organization of (Living) Matter and the Limits of Microscopic Vision, 1882–1938
What does it mean for living matter to be “organized”? For much of the nineteenth century it was assumed that the complexity of vital phenomena corres
Cosmic Ice Theory—Science, Fiction and the Public, 1894–1945
At the end of the nineteenth century, Werner Siemens proclaimed the beginning of the scientific age in Germany. At the same time, academic scholars, p
Publications, “Kosmische Ent-Fremdung. Zur Geschichte der Welteislehre und ihrer epistemischen Dinge,” in: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1 (2006).
Electro-acoustics in the Laboratory, Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century
This project investigates the sonic dimensions of physical laboratories at the juncture of acoustical and electrical research around the turn of the t
Vegetable · Animal · Transformation
“Vegetable · Animal · Transformation” examines a complex of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century strategies that engaged call on chemistry, bi
African Chemistry: Science with an African Totem
African Chemistry struggles with what it means to talk about African chemistry as imagined and practiced by Africans. Not simply western chemistry in
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Empire, Nature, and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400–1800
Pre-modern materia medica and pharmacological practices have been shaped through interaction not only with medical theory and practice, but also with
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The Uses and Abuses of Things: Reconceptualizing Technology-in-use within the History of Technology
This project’s interconnected aim is conceptual and empirical: to develop artifact-focused conceptual tools to understand technological use and t