March for Science, Washington 2017

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Dept. II

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life

Group picture of the members of Dept. II from September 2024

Photo: Arne Sattler

Director

Director (Since Jul 2022)

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life

Service & Administrators

Departmental Assistant (Since Jul 2023)

Research Officer

Publications Manager (Nov 2021 - Jun 2026)

Departmental Assistant (Since Aug 2024)

Publications Manager (Since Jan 2024)

Researchers

Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug 2023 - Jul 2025)

The Grammars of Solution

Predoctoral Scholar (May 2022 - Apr 2025)

Assessing Certainty without Certainty: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Biomedical Research Data and its Role in the Emergence of Scientific Dissent

Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug 2023 - Aug 2025)

The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary

Research Scholar (Jul 2023 - Feb 2026)

Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Nov 2024 - Dec 2024)

Science Films, their Festivals and Archives: the Strange Case of the International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film (1956-1975)

Research Scholar (Since Jan 2002)

Research Scholar (Jul 2021 - Jun 2026)

Scales of Validity

Research Scholar (Nov 2024 - Oct 2027)

A Sense for Statistics in Modern India: Quantifying Communal Identities and Differences

Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug 2024 - Jul 2026)

Ogallala Inc.: Race, Work, and the Making of America’s Red Meat Capital

Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024 - Aug 2026)

Archival Dispossessions: Archives, Empire, and the Epistemological Limits of the Nation-State

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Aug 2025)

Charting the Shattered Sea: Maritime Conflicts and East Asian Oceanography in the Twentieth Century

Research Scholar (Sep 2023 - Aug 2028)

Communities of Reproductive Knowledge

Postdoctoral Scholar (May 2023 - Nov 2024)

From Recipients of Knowledge to Producers: Indigenous Peasants’ Knowledge and Sustainable Farming in Peru (1950-2010)

Postdoctoral Scholar (Apr 2024 - Mar 2025)

The Photographic Dome of the Yale Clinic of Child Development

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Apr 2019 - Dec 2024)

Symbiotic Worlding: Theories and Practices of Coexistence in Lynn Margulis and Donna Haraway

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jan 2024 - Dec 2024)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024 - Aug 2025)

At Arm’s Lengths: Octopus Consciousness as a Scientific and Legal Artifact

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2021 - Aug 2025)

Global Health and Biomedical Research in the Cold War Era

Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2024 - Feb 2025)

Bridging Environmental Movements with Arts-Based Research

Principal Investigator (Since Jun 2005)

Research Group: Data, Media, Mind