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The Dark Figure: Haunting and Counting the "Volksseele"
In Germany, studies on "the dark figure"—an estimation of the number of unreported or undiscovered crimes—have recently been made part of large-scale
Knowledge in Transit
For well over a decade, the notion of circulation has occupied a key position in the history of science. This emphasis has roots in a variety of
Paper Cures: Managing Knowledge and Health in the Early Modern Household
In recent years, the household has emerged as a central place for knowledge codification practices in the early modern period. Investigations into med
Tools of the Phrenological Trade: Gender, Paper, and Practices in Antebellum America
This project examines how phrenological practices depended on paper, or rather, on a system of paper. Considered a science by many in the early ninete
Knowledge Production in the Human Sciences: (In)visible Labour
There are powerful epistemological, social, and political reasons for concealing (or revealing) certain people, practices, and professions in the cour
Radio Archiving and the Sources of History
This project addresses the early history of sound archiving in broadcasting and its relationship to new arenas of cultural and knowledge production. F
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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
Western Scholars’ Study on the Science and Technology of Silk in China
The parts of Qin Ding Shou shi tong kao 欽定授時通考 (Ortai et al. 1742) and Tian gong kai wu 天工開物 (Song YingXing 1637) dealing with sericult
Death’s Paperwork: Gender, Authority, and Memory in Early Modern Science
I propose to consider the posthumous handling of the papers of seventeenth-century British naturalists and medical practitioners. When a naturalist di
Papering Over the Gendered Body: Clelia Mosher, the Posture Sciences, and the Schematograph
One of Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher’s professional life goals was to fix the American slouch, making all the “uneven shoulders and hips, the drooping heads,