Daniel Rosenberg

Visiting Scholar

Ph.D., Professor of History, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

Residence: March 1–August 31, 2013

Profile

Daniel Rosenberg teaches history in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, where he has also served as Associate Dean. Rosenberg is an intellectual historian specializing in eighteenth-century Europe. His research focuses on questions of historical representation and ranges broadly in areas including the histories of science, language, and art.

Rosenberg’s book with Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), examines various graphic mechanisms used to depict time and tells the story of the emergence of the measured timeline as a standard visual vocabulary beginning in the eighteenth century. He also curated an exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum on the same subject. His anthology with Susan Harding, Histories of the Future (Duke University Press, 2005), explores the cultural uses of the future in historical and ethnographic contexts. He is editor-at-large at Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture where he has published on subjects including Paleolithic calendars, the concept of sloth, the history of Jell-O, the invention of hypertext, and the language of the planet Mars. His current work focuses on the history of the concept data. It aims to account for its emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its transformation into an area of central cultural concern. The project employs both qualitative and quantitative methods and examines the implications of new data-driven approaches in humanities research. Rosenberg is also developing an interactive timeline project entitled Time Online.

Rosenberg received his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of California at Berkeley. Among other recognitions, he has held fellowships at the Princeton University Council of the Humanities, the Rutgers Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.