Veronika Lipphardt
Research Group Director
Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.
Residence: March 1, 2009–April 30, 2016
Profile
Veronika Lipphardt works on the history of the life sciences, particularly physical anthropology and human population genetics and their social and cultural contexts. Her current work focuses on the history of knowledge about human variation in the 20th century. Since March 2009, she is director of an Independent Research Group, and since 2011, she is Professor at the Free University, Berlin.
Veronika Lipphardt has published a book about German-Jewish physical anthropologists and geneticists and how they contributed to the scientific debate about the so-called "Jewish race" between 1900 and 1935. From 2006 to 2009, she has been a researcher in the BMBF-funded Collaborative Research Project "Imagined Europeans. The scientific construction of Homo Europaeus" at Humboldt University Berlin, studying imaginations of the "European" and its biological essence in the life sciences from the 18th century until today. She has studied history, biology, musicology and social sciences in Vienna, Potsdam, Berlin and Freiburg.
Veronika Lipphardt has published a book about German-Jewish physical anthropologists and geneticists and how they contributed to the scientific debate about the so-called "Jewish race" between 1900 and 1935. From 2006 to 2009, she has been a researcher in the BMBF-funded Collaborative Research Project "Imagined Europeans. The scientific construction of Homo Europaeus" at Humboldt University Berlin, studying imaginations of the "European" and its biological essence in the life sciences from the 18th century until today. She has studied history, biology, musicology and social sciences in Vienna, Potsdam, Berlin and Freiburg.
Selected publications
- Lipphardt, V. (2012). Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics, or: A Contextualization of German Race Science. More
- Lipphardt, V., & Ludwig, D. (2011). Knowledge transfer and science transfer. EGO European History Online. Retrieved from http://www.ieg-ego.eu/lipphardtv-ludwigd-2011-en. More See also
- Lipphardt, V. (2010). The Jewish communities in Rome: an isolated population? Sampling procedures and bio-historical narratives in genetic analysis in the 1950s. BioSocieties, 5(3), 306-329. More
- Lipphardt, V. (2008). Biologie der Juden. Jüdische Wissenschaftler über "Rasse" und Vererbung, 1900-1935. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht. More
- Lipphardt, V. (2008). Biohistorical Narratives of Jewish History. Contextualizing the Studies of Wilhelm Nussbaum (1896-1985). In A Cultural History of Heredity IV: Heredity in the Century of the Gene, Preprint 343 (pp. 191-212). Berlin: Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science. More
Talks and presentations
| Apr 2013 | Visualizations of Human Variation in Early Population Genetics – Conference "Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Origins and Diversity in Space and Time" - Luzern |
| April 2012 | Der Europäer als Wissensobjekt – Workshop "Europäer in der nicht-europäischen Welt: über Rasse, Kultur und Zivilisation" - Graduiertenkolleg Duitsland Institut, Amsterdam |
| Nov 2011 | Taste Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamide Around the Globe: Collecting Data on a New Genetic Marker in the mid-20th Century – Conference "Data-Difference-Diversity. Technologies of Differentiation in the Life Sciences" - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin |
| Nov 2011 | Hayden White's Metahistorie in die Biowissenschaften! – Tagung "Wissenschaft als Erzählung – Erzählungen der Wissenschaft" - Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung und Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin |
| June 2011 | Genetic studies of human variation after 1945: continuities and new departures – Workshop "Human heredity : biology, anthropology and public health, 1940s-70s" - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris |
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