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Colonial Ears: Noise, Acoustics, and Hearing Bodies in Colonial Taiwan
This project investigates the transfer of noise monitoring technologies from New York City to Taipei vis-à-vis Japanese colonial administrators in the
Cultures of Innovation in Global History
A commonly used expression, innovation is rather difficult to define. Innovation is both an act (the process of conceiving, thinking, producing and im
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Between Marvel and Machine: The Automaton in the Middle Ages
This project is part of a PhD thesis that focuses on automata imagined and made during the Western Middle Ages. Based on the works of my predecessors
Betwixt the Somatic and the Mnemonic: Mapping Identities in the Global South, c. 1950–1980s
My project explores the scientific attempts to map identities in India and South Africa in the period between 1950 and the 1980s. Such efforts include
Disaster Research and Preparedness and Global Transfer of Knowledge
This research project served as an attempt to develop a historical account of disaster research and expertise in various contexts. Disaster research,
A Global History of Human Teeth
Much has been written on the history of dentistry but not as much has been written on the history of the human teeth. The first aim of this project wi
Performing Brains on Screen
Performing Brains on Screen, a book under contract with the series “Film Culture in Transition” of Amsterdam University Press, deals with film enactme
Uncertainty of the Mind: Institutionalizing and Individualizing Psychology, early 20th-Century China
In the late nineteenth century, when Western knowledge was systematically introduced to China, the majority of disciplines were already well-defined i
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When the Qing and Republican governments installed psychology as a pedagogical part of middle school curricula and adopted it as a legitimate field in
Test-Bed Planets
In 1943, in the midst of the war, the famous architect Richard Neutra was commissioned by the government of Puerto Rico to build hospitals and schools