Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Residence: November 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013

Profile

My research interests include the transnational history of Central Eastern Europe, the history of bacteriology and epidemics in this region, the history of circulating bacteriological knowledge between Western and Eastern Europe, as well as broader questions about the way medical knowledge is stabilized in geographical and social space. My PhD-project has a twofold aim: First, it wants to offer an in-depth-analysis of tools in bacteriological knowledge transfer. It shows that making microbes travel to and within the Polish lands around 1900 was a complex and challenging process. Second, it aims at broadening our understanding of the European history of science by including Eastern European actors into our picture of scientific knowledge production.