Joshua Berson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D.

Residence: September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2012

Profile

I studied linguistic anthropology, history of science, and science and technology studies at the University of Pennsylvania and completed the PhD in 2009. Before coming to the Max Planck Institute I was a fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna. In a past life I was a computer scientist and designer of interactive software. My research interests include cultural salvage movements, the globalization of intellectual property law, the instrumentalization of archive-making and historicism as vehicles of international development, and the ways encounters arising from the above thematize register boundaries in the social pragmatics of memory.