March for Science, Washington 2017

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Group-Photo of the members of Dept. II

Photo: Arne Sattler

Director

Director

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life

Research Support

Departmental Assistant

Research Officer

Publications Manager

Digital Humanities Software Developer

Publications Manager

Researchers

Postdoctoral Scholar

The Meaning of History in a Fated World

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Apr 2025 - May 2025)

 Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies on Schizophrenia 

Predoctoral Scholar

Against Reliability: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Clinical Trials

Postdoctoral Scholar

The Evolution of Culturalism: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary

Research Scholar

Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action

Digital Humanities Scholar (Since Jan 2002)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Apr 2025 - Jul 2025)

Un/sichtbare Strahlen — Visualisierungstechniken von Umweltwissen in der modernen Radiästhesie. Zum Einfluss außerakademischer Wissensformen auf forschende Zeichnungspraktiken und ihre aktuelle Rezeption als Kunst im Anthropozän.

Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2025 - May 2025)

Making Danger: Biological Weapons Research, Biosafety, and the Management of Microbial Life, 1940-1990

Research Scholar

Scales of Validity

Research Scholar

Popularization of Science and Technology in Postwar Italy

Research Scholar

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

Postdoctoral Scholar

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

Postdoctoral Scholar

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

Research Scholar

On Misogyny: Feminism, Fetuses, Femicides

Predoctoral Fellow (Feb 2025 - Jun 2025)

The Hereditarian Roots of Diversity

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2025 - Feb 2026)

Of Monkeys and Primatologies: An Anthropological Study of the Encounters Between Practices and Regimes of Knowledge

Research Scholar

Communities of Reproductive Knowledge

Research Scholar

From the Cell to the Microbiome: Agency, Reactivity, and Incorporation in the History of Biomedicine

Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2025 - Jun 2025)

Temperate Clime and Place

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024 - Aug 2025)

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

Max Planck India Mobility Fellow (Jan 2025 - Dec 2027)

An Oral History of Indian Conservation Biology

Research Scholar

The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2021 - Aug 2025)

Global Health and Biomedical Research in the Cold War Era

Principal Investigator

Research Group: Data, Media, Mind