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Forgotten People in the Mongol Empire and the Ming Dynasty
In my book Khubilai Khan, published in 1988, I wrote that “Khubilai eliminated a discriminatory practice and altered the biases against occupational g
Luis A. Campos
Luis A. Campos received his PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2006, with ...
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Life as It Could Be: Synthetic Biology, Astrobiology, and the Future of Life
The history of synthetic biological efforts to re-engineer life on Earth has overlapped in provocative ways with efforts to understand how life might
Investigating the Human Psyche through Motor Skills: A History of Technical Psychological Testing
Since Antiquity, it has been debated whether the hand or the mind is what makes humans intelligent. My project, situated between the history of techno
Fanny Gribenski
Fanny Gribenski studied musicology and history at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, the Pari...
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Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux
Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux is Emeritus Research Director (Theater Studies) at the CNRS (INSHS,...
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Thomas Morel
Thomas Morel is interested in the social history of mathematical sciences and how practitioners ...
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Affective Technologies: Desire and the Will in Early Modern Europe
Drawing on court cases, scholarly treatises, and material objects, Affective Technologies examines a cluster of practices and objects—including the ap
Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber
Catgut is a natural fiber of great elasticity and tenacity prepared from the intestines of animals, usually cattle, goats, pigs, or sheep. Commonly us
Apex Predators: Encounters with Sharks since 1900
This book project addresses the global environmental, technological, and cultural history of human interactions with sharks. Tentatively titled Apex P