Aleksandra Kaye is a historian of knowledge and science specialized in nineteenth-century Latin America and in the partitioned territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She conducted her doctoral research at the History Department, University College London. In her doctoral dissertation, she applied social network analysis methods to historical research and mapped Polish knowledge networks in nineteenth-century Latin America to understand the role migration has played in the production, transfer, and acceptance of scientific knowledge. In 2022, she was a Freer Prize fellow at the Royal Institution in London, and a year earlier, in 2021, an exchange scholar in Sociology at Yale University. Broadly, her work focuses on cross-cultural interactions, transnational migration, and circulation of scientific knowledge. Aleks’ current research project deals with how Polish migrants’ work on petroleum prospecting and later exploitation in Argentina was presented in Polish and Argentinian newspapers and periodicals and how that in turn affected broader scientific debates. At the MPIWG, she is affiliated with the Socio-epistemic Networks: Modelling Historical Knowledge Processes project in Department I.
Projects
Through the Socio-epistemic Networks Lens: Argentinian and Polish Discourses on Petroleum, 1880–1910
Selected Publications
Kaye, Aleksandra (2024). “Piecing together ‘Big Pictures’ with Social Network Analysis and Digital Tools.” BJHS Themes, April 11, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2024.5.
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Kaye, Aleksandra (2023). “Shaping Public Perception: Polish Illustrated Press and the Image of Polish Naturalists Working in Latin America, 1844–1885.” Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 46 (2–3): 158–180. https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202200047.
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Kaye, Aleksandra (2022). “Review of: Hansson, Nilsand Jonatan Wistrand (Eds): Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850–2015. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press 2019.” History: The Journal of the Historical Association 107 (376): 593…
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Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
Global History and Culture Centre Annual Conference — The History of Science and the 'Big Picture'
University of Warwick
World History
London, City Lit College
Undergraduate History
University College London
Global Digital History of Science Festival
British Society for the History of Science
Digital History Seminar Series
London, Institute of Historical Research