Department II: Scholars in Residence
Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston, Director
Please mail to Ms. Nuria Monn, Secretary: sekdept2@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Local e-mail adresses of visiting scholars and research fellows will work from date of arrival.
Ph.D., Associate Professor for German Studies, University of Michigan
(Visiting Scholar,
December 1, 2012–April 30, 2013): Overland to Lobito Bay: The 1925 Scientific Expedition of Dorothea Bleek and Mary Pocock
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2015): Big Science in the Archive: Managing Big Data in America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
e-mail: earonova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: earonova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
December 1, 2012–August 31, 2013): Cultural Evolution and the Free Market: Hayek's Theory of Group Selection
Ph.D., MIT
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2013): Ethics, Epistemology, and Law in Endangered Species Research
e-mail: ebenson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: ebenson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University, Hamilton
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2013): How our Days Became Numbered: The Development of a Statistical Infrastructure of Risk in the United States, 1873–1935
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1–July 31, 2013)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): The Canon Under Threat: Objects Without Status and Processes of (De)canonisation of Middle Eastern Archaeological Finds in 19th Century Europe
e-mail: mbrusius@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: mbrusius@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
(Executive Director,
since July 15, 1995): Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science
Ph.D., University of Bari
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1 - December 31, 2012): Practices and Paths of Rationality in 18th Century Naples
e-mail: fdeceglia@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: fdeceglia@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, ISCTE/IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
(Visiting Scholar,
February 1 – 17 and July 17 – August 17, 2013): Endangerment and its Consequences
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1–March 31, 2013): The Birth of Gender. Medicine and the Search for the Better Sex
Ph.D., Associate Professor, McGill University, Motreal, Canada
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1–June 30, 2013): The Unity of Nature: History of a Philosophical Concept
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): A Matter of Time: Changing Clock Habits in Edo Japan
e-mail: yfrumer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: yfrumer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1, 2012–May 15, 2013): Turkey Red Wheat: The American Breadbasket and the Organization of Global Plant Genetic Recources
Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Maryland University
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1–June 30, 2013): "The Living Book of Knowledge”: The Moving-Image Encyclopedia from Marey to the Internet
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since September 1, 2012): Science and Technology in Italian Literary Journals, 1945–1967
e-mail: dgermanese@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dgermanese@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
November 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013): How to Make Microbes Travel. Bacteriological Knowledge Transfer to and Within Poland, 1885-1939.
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1, 2013–December 31, 2015, funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung): Listening Techniques in Post-Reformation Geneva: Evidence from the Registers of the Consistory (1542-1555)
IREPH, Department of Philosophy, University Paris Ouest Nanterre
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
February 27–April 25, 2013): Cancer Stem Cell: Stemness Ontology and its Consequences for Therapies Against Cancers
D. Phil.
(MPG Minerva Research Group Leader,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2017): Reading and Writing Medicine in Early Modern England
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
March 1, 2007–April 30, 2013, funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung 2010–12): Dream Watchers: A History of Modern Dream Research
University of Michigan
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013, funded by the ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship): Picturing Number: Visualizing Quadrivial Concepts in the Central Middle Ages
Ph.D., wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institute for Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1–March 31, 2013): Visualization in Geography. Scopic Regimes in Geography between Photogrammetry and Digital Cartography (ca 1930-1980)
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013): Textual Practices and Canon Formation at the Byzantine Court
PD Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since June 15, 2005): The Science of Statistics and the Politics of Censustaking; Early Childhood Development Studies in 19th-Century America
e-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Emmy-Noether-Research Group, University of Münster, Germany
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1 - December 31, 2012): Eugenics and the Discourse on Reproductive Rights of African American Women in the Twentieth Century
Ph.D., Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
(Visiting Scholar,
October 1, 2012–August 31, 2013, funded by the Harvard University and the MPIWG): Knowledge on the Move: Scientific Encounters in the Muslim and Christian Worlds, 500–1500
e-mail: kpark@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kpark@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
(Visiting Scholar,
August 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013): Government of Techno-Science
e-mail: dpestre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dpestre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Union College, Schenectady
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1 - December 31, 2012, funded by the Union College, Schenectady): The Development of Computational Procedures and Numerical Tables in Sanskrit Mathematics in the Second Millenium
Ph.D., Professor of History, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1–August 31, 2013): Toward a Quantitative History of Data
Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2015): A Natural History of Data; Extinction and the Value of Diversity
e-mail: dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2014): Science for Women in the Spanish Country House (1780–1808)
e-mail: eserrano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: eserrano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Associate Professor, University of Warwick
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1–June 30, 2013, funded by the University of Warwick): Breeding for the Fatherland: Bodies, Population and Politics in Enlightened Absolutist Germany
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): Conditional Inequalities: American Pure and Applied Mathematics from the Cold War to the Present
Dr., Assistant Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam
(Dilthey Fellowship Research Group Leader,
September 1, 2011–August 31, 2016, funded by the Volkswagenstiftung): The Making of Acoustics in 16th to 19th Century Europe
e-mail: tkaczyk@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: tkaczyk@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D. Student, TU Berlin;
Computer Engineer
(Research Scholar,
March 1, 2010 - June 30, 2014, funded by the McGill University, Montreal, Canada): Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
Rutgers University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1–June 30 and September 1–June 30, 2013, partly funded by the Mellon Foundation): Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: Polio Epidemics in Cold War Hungary 1952–1963
e-mail: dvargha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dvargha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., ICREA Research Professor
(Visiting Scholar,
February 1 – February 17 and June 24 – August 31, 2013): The Cerebral Subject: Brain, Self and Body in History and Contemporary Culture; Endangerment and its Consequences
e-mail: vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since September 15, 1994): History of Mathematics and Science in the 19th and 20th Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
e-mail: vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2014): Women and the Spread of Biomedical Knowledge in Colonial Uganda
e-mail: kvongsathorn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kvongsathorn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Pitzer College, Claremont
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013, funded by the Humboldt Foundation): Leibniz in the Harz: History, Invention, and the Archives of Nature
Harvard University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): A Cultural History of Breathing
Ph.D., Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science University of Chicago
MA, Philosophy
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - January 31, 2013): John La Farge, William James, and the Search for Truth in Art, Science, and Philosophy; The Anthropocene Project
e-mail: cwatson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: cwatson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
May 15–June 30, 2013): Modeling Utopia in Early Modern England
École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1–March 31, 2013): Ideal of Proof: Forensic Knowledge Between Theory and Practice in Late Imperial China
