Alumni

Seit 2015

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A

Visiting Scholar (30 Okt-14 Dez 2018)

Menagerie: People and Wildlife in the American City

Visiting Scholar (12 Sep-12 Dez 2018)

PhD, Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities, Professor of History, Northwestern University

A History of Artificial Beings

Visiting Scholar (16 Jan-31 Jul 2019)

PhD, Professor of History at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University

A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470-1630 (Book project)

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2013-31 Dez 2015)

Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Faculty, York University

Oceans and Expeditions Between the Wars

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-30 Sep 2016)

PhD cantab.

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-31 Jul 2016)

MRes, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2016-31 Jan 2017)

PhD, Professor HDR

The Construction of Deaf-Muteness and the Writing of Norms in Western Europe and the United States (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

Research Scholar (1 Sep 2012-31 Dez 2015)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Mai 2018)

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Dez 2015-30 Sep 2017)

B

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 Sep-2 Okt 2018)

PhD

Beyond the Canon: Towards a History of Mathematical Practices in India

Visiting Scholar (20 Aug-20 Okt 2016)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1-19 Aug 2016)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (27 Jan-31 Mar 2020)

PhD

The Vegetative Soul and Plants in the Study of Life and Living Bodies

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2015-31 Aug 2016)

PhD, University of Cambridge

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai-30 Jun 2017)

MA, Doctoral Student, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Persian Astronomy in Byzantium

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mai 2016)

PhD, Lecturer, Harvard University

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Professor of History, University of Paris 1

Mesmerism and Politics on the Eve of the French Revolution

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Director of East Asian Studies, Washington and Lee University

The Ethological Theodicy of Locust Infestation in Early Modern China

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Mar 2017)

MA, Doctoral Student, European University Institute

Scribal Scholars: The Manuscript Economy of Overseas Natural History in France, 1660–1760

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2016)

Dr., Research Scholar, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-30 Jun 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University

History of Medicine and Science in China, 1500–1800; Materiality of Knowledge as Presented in Ming–Qing Local Gazetteers. A Social History of Medical Recipes in Early Modern China

Visiting Scholar (4-19 Feb 2018)

PhD, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

Researching Radio: Sound Archives and Discipline Formation, 1930-1945

Visiting Scholar (2-16 Jun 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University

Tools of the Phrenological Trade: Gender and Practices in Antebellum America

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2015-31 Aug 2018)

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Mai 2020)

PhD, Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Science at the University of Edinburgh

History of Experimental Psychology. The Cambridge Psychological Laboratory in the 1940s and the Problems of Pilot Error and Fatigue

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Regents' Professor, School of International Letters & Cultures, Arizona State University

Wu Yün's "Rhapsody on the Darkling Gibbon" and its Daoist Contexts

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2016-31 Aug 2018)

PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam

Art and Deception: Functions, Techniques and Effects of Material Mimesis

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-30 Sep 2019)

PhD Candidate, University of Oxford

Gottfried Leibniz's Networks: Science at the Confluence of Practice and Sociability

aborowski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Jun 2016)

PhD, Professor, University of California Berkeley

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Jan-31 Mar 2019)

Visiting Scholar (8 Sep-7 Dez 2016)

PhD, Senior Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, India

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1-30 Sep 2015)

Informal Empire and the Hybridity of Plant Knowledge in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s

Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2014-31 Aug 2017)

PhD

Another Green World: Tropical Trees and American Jungle

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)

Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music, Wellesley College

Liberal Sound: Milton Babbitt and the RCA Synthesizer

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2019)

Professor of Chinese History and Republic of China Chair, University of British Columbia

A Price History of Ming China

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-31 Jul 2017)

Research Scholar (1 Jun 2015-31 Mai 2018)

PhD

Sound Science: Recording and Listening in the Biology of Bird Song, Listening and The Shaping of Work Performance in the Twentieth Century

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 Jul-3 Sep 2018)

PhD. Lecturer in Music, Queen's University Belfast

Tactile Speech

Postdoctoral Fellow (14 Aug-31 Okt 2017)

PhD

Privileged Knowledge. The Politics of Print in the Early Dutch Republic

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-5 Aug 2016)

PhD, Department of History, State University Raleigh

Visiting Scholar (10 Mai-9 Jul 2018)

C

Visiting Scholar (29 Mai-12 Jun 2016)

Professor

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)

Professor for the History of Science

Rewriting Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medical Epistemology

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Professor Emerita of History, University of California at Davis, USA

Medieval Science on the Road to Maturity

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2016-30 Jun 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor of Asian Art History, Boston College

Architecture and Empire in the Reign of the Yongle Emperor, 1402–1424

Visiting Scholar (10 Aug-10 Nov 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST)

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 Jul 2018)

PhD. Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Between Law and Science: Unsoundness of Mind in Anglo–American Medical Jurisprudence

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)

Professor of Early Modern History, History Department, Royal Holloway

Early Vernacular Medical Books, Users and Uses, Impact

Visiting Scholar (1 Apr-30 Jun 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2017-30 Jun 2018)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-31 Dez 2018)

PhD. Professor and Director of Research, CNRS, France

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Aug 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College

In Search of Unknown Craftsmen: Trade, Tribute, and the Invention of Bingata

bchen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Jul 2018)

The Changing Cosmology and Knowledge of the Tiger lands in Buddhist Asia

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-31 Jul 2019)

PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago

Roads and Localities: A Perspective from Local Gazetteers on Road Construction in Eighteenth-century China

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Aug 2016)

PhD, Professor of East Asian Buddhism, University of British Columbia

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2014-31 Aug 2016)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Ancient Books Preservation, Fudan University

Distribution of Knowledge: Spatial Analysis on China's Ancient Private Libraries

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)

MA, Doctoral Student, Universität Heidelberg

Nutritional Filth: Agricultural Uses of Animal Waste in Late Imperial China

Visiting Scholar (1-19 Aug 2016)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Portland State University

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2015)

PhD, History Faculty University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow & Research Supervisor, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds

Visiting Scholar (16 Jul-15 Dez 2015)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2019-14 Jul 2020)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University

A Comparative Study on the Knowledge Structures of Local Gazetteers

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Mar 2017)

MA, Doctoral Student, University of Chicago

Goethe’s Experiments in Music and Theater, 1791–1817

Visiting Scholar (16 Apr-11 Mai 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Toronto

Open Office Design and the Acoustics of the Knowledge Economy

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Aug 2018)

PhD

George Maciunas, Fluxus, and Media Technologies of Empire

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1-31 Mai 2018)

PhD Candidate, Stanford University

Perfecting Nature: A History of Science, Animals, and Spanish Empire

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Jun 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University

The Laws of Habit

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Mar 2017)

PhD, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam

The Relations between the Epistemic Virtues of Impartiality and Objectivity in French 19th-century Historiography, especially in the Context of the Dreyfus Affair

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2019)

PhD

Hidden Reserves in Socialist Planning: From Historical Consciousness to Science and Expertise

acucu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Okt 2015)

PhD, Lecturer in History of Science, University of Cambridge

D

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Aug 2016)

Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago

Visiting Scholar (7-21 Jun 2019)

PhD, Henry and Julia Weisman Schutt Chair in Music Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

The Political Ecology of Sound Insulation

Visiting Scholar (15 Mai-15 Aug 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Western Connecticut State University

Collecting Technology in the Age of Empire: Global Encounters and the Transformation of Nature

Visiting Scholar (24 Sep-7 Okt 2017)

PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad de Sevilla

The Epistemological Transformation of Mechanics in the Nineteenth Century: Interactions between Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Mai 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan

The City as Nature: An Intellectual History of the City in Middle-Period China, 800–1150

Research Scholar (1 Jul 2016-30 Jun 2020)

PhD

Transmission and History of Antique Scientific Texts such as Ptolemy’s Geography, using Computational Humanities

odefaux@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2016-31 Mar 2017)

PhD, Associated Researcher, Centre d'Archives en Philosophie, Histoire et Édition des Sciences, ENS-Paris (CAPHES) and Centre Marc Bloch (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)

History of Psychiatric Epidemiology after 1945

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Apr 2018)

Between Marvel and Machine. From the "image de nigromance" to the Mechanised "Engin": The Automation in the Middle Ages

Visiting Scholar (15 Jul-16 Sep 2018)

Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex

Sound, Materiality and the Social Lives of Objects

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Jul 2019)

PhD

The Liver in Egypt: Productions of an Organ through 20th–Century Public Health and Political Economy

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Mai 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania

Naturalizing Deduction

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-31 Dez 2017)

PhD, Independent Scholar

Demographic Regimes

Artist in Residence (1 Sep-31 Dez 2015)

Visiting Scholar (15 Aug-15 Nov 2015)

University of Michigan, USA

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2018-28 Feb 2019)

PhD candidate

Der Schwingkreis: Schaltungsgeschichte(n) an den Rändern von Musik und Medien

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-31 Aug 2018)

Large-Scale environmental engineering during the Cold War

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dez 2019)

PhD, Research Associate at Humboldt University, Matters of Activity: Image Space Material

Wild Silk of West Africa: Towards an Indigenous Science of Materials

ldouny@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Okt-30 Nov 2015)

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University

Local Gazetteers in Republican China: Spatial-Order Continuity and the Modern-Tradition Divide

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-1 Dez 2017)

PhD, Research Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jean Senebier (1742-1809) and the Eighteenth-century ars observandi

(1 Jul 2011-30 Sep 2016)

Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Institute for Art History, Freie Universität Berlin

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

Empire of Routine: The Unexpected Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth Century Qing State

E

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Durham University

Visiting Scholar (1 Feb-30 Apr 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke University

Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1-30 Jun 2018)

The Electronic Circuit as Post–Musical Score

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)

PhD Candidate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Meat, Cattle, and a Capital City: Slaughterhouses, Animals, and Meat Production in Rio de Janeiro during the Last Years of the Brazilian Empire

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)

Doctoral Candidate, Aarhus University

Archiving the Brain

F

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor, Binghamton University

Animals and Society in Imperial China

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Senior Researcher, St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science

The Scientific and Cultural Phenomenon of European Bison in the 19th–Early 20th Century

afedotova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (26 Apr-31 Mai 2018)

Visiting Scholar (20 Jul-20 Nov 2015)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-28 Feb 2019)

PhD, Professor, CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

Practicing Knowledge in Islamic Societies and their Neighbours

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)

Doctoral Student, Sydney University

Nature and Nation: Documentation and the Practice of "Natural History" at the Australian Museum, 1840–1890

jvfinney@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (15 Feb-8 Apr 2016)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)

MA, Doctoral Student, Princeton University

Writing the "Thesaurus" of Latinity: A Study in the History of Philological Practice

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Professor, Deptartment of East Asian Studies and Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies, McGill University

The Filiality of Daughters in Imperial China: A Genealogical Study

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Jan 2019)

PhD candidate, University of Columbia

Agents of Violence: Naval Technology and Late Qing China in Global Arms Trade, 1875-1911

sfong@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Research Group Leader (1 Mar-30 Jun 2019)

PhD

Thinking in Tables: Translating Medical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dez 2019)

PhD, Associate Professor, Aalto University

The Uses and Abuses of Things: Reconceptualizing Technology-in-Use within the History of Technology

mfridlund@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (15 Jan-15 Apr 2016)

Dr. phil., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

Visiting Scholar (23 Jul-22 Aug 2017)

PhD, Professor and Dean of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang-Ming University

The Historical Construction of British Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in its First Two Decades, from 1970s to 1990s

Visiting Scholar (15 Jul-23 Dez 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University

Biodiversity Preservation in International Agricultural Research

G

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Aug 2016)

PhD, Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Visual Culture, Stony Brook University

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2018)

How Images Obscure the Anthropocene, or, How Not to See

Visiting Scholar (1 Apr-31 Dez 2016)

PhD, Assistant Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études

Artist in Residence (15 Apr-9 Mai 2016)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (16 Jan-15 Feb 2017)

PhD, Instructor, University of Memphis

Artist in Residence (1 Mai-30 Jun 2019)

Associate Professor of Art, School of Art and Art History, UIC

Hopium Economy Substance Dependencies in the Anthropocene

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt-30 Nov 2018)

PhD candidate, Department of History, Central European University Budapest

Rationality of Noise: Gathering of Acoustic Information during the Cold War

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Jul 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor of History of Science and Medicine

The Neurology of Regicide: Decapitation Experiments and the Science of Sovereignty

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-30 Apr 2019)

PhD candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking

Visiting Scholar (2-14 Jul 2018)

Visiting Scholar (9 Nov 2016-18 Jan 2017)

PhD, Professor of German Literature, Basel University

Visiting Scholar (29 Jun-6 Sep 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University

Medical Practice in 12th-Century China as Reflected in Medical Case Records

Visiting Scholar (5 Apr 2016-31 Jul 2017)

Dr.-Ing., Professor for Informatics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-30 Apr 2018)

PhD, Azrieli Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University

A Million Horses: The Geography and Economy of Frontier Horse Ranches in Early Ming China

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Jan-31 Mai 2017)

MA, Doctoral Candidate, Indiana University

Gendered History of Pathology: Blood Clots and Hormones in Women

Research Scholar (1 Jan 2018-31 Dez 2019)

PhD

Tuning the World: A Global History of Acoustics at the Crossroads of Aesthetics, Politics, Science and Industry (1834–1939)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep-14 Dez 2018)

PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

The Art of Judgment in Wetlands

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (21 Jan-18 Feb 2017)

PhD, Research Professor, Brown University

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Aug 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Department HETIC, TU Troyes, France

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)

Rewriting the World in Southwest India

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr-30 Jun 2017)

MA, Doctoral Student, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria

On the Genealogy of Mescaline (1887–1919)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-15 Sep 2018)

Doctoral Student

The Role of Maps in 19th-Century Plant Geography

nguettler@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

H

(1 Apr-30 Sep 2018)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai-31 Okt 2017)

MA, Doctoral Student, University of Cambridge

Serpents and Empire: Modern Encounters with Natural History, c. 1780-1870

Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-30 Apr 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

The “Smartness” Mandate: A Genealogy of Automated Ecologies

Artist in Residence (1-30 Apr 2018)

"Can machines think? - History of the Human, Computational, and Behavioral Sciences in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century

Visiting Scholar (1-14 Jul 2018)

PhD, Professor of History, New Mexico State University

Tu (圖) in Local Gazetteers

Visiting Scholar (18-31 Jul 2016)

PhD, Professor of History of Sciences, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Measuring the Heaven and Earth: Jesuits and Their Scientific Activity in China

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Aug 2016)

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jan 2019)

PhD, University of Sydney, Australia, Lecturer, School for the History and Philosophy of Science

The Known and the Lived: Melitta Schiller–Stauffenberg, 1903–1945

Visiting Scholar (1 Feb-30 Apr 2016)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2018-31 Aug 2019)

PhD

Mediterranean Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?

mherreracasais@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (14 Jun-7 Jul 2019)

PhD, Assistant Professor Kyoto University, Hakubi Center/Institute for Research in Humanities, Japan

Cosmological and Astral images in Central Asian Buddhist Paintings

IT Researcher (1 Sep 2016-31 Aug 2018)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Sep 2017)

PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation

IT Researcher (1 Apr-30 Sep 2016)

MS

Visiting Scholar (9-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Professor of History of Science, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Cutting Corners: How to Index a Chinese Book

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2017-28 Feb 2018)

PhD

Colonial Ears: Noise, Acoustics, and Hearing Bodies in Colonial Taiwan

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2016-31 Aug 2019)

PhD

From Electrotype to the Electric Image: The Search for Global Vision, ca. 1830-1936

Visiting Scholar (1-19 Aug 2016)

PhD, Junior Professor of Chinese History and Society

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-30 Jun 2019)

Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov-31 Dez 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Jul 2019)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University

Listening to Nature: Standardized Soundscapes and Imagined Ecologies, 1900–2000

J

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-15 Sep 2016)

PhD, Professor of History, New York University

Visiting Scholar (24 Aug-24 Sep 2017)

DPhil, Reader in Early Modern History, University of York

Early Modern Notions of Cleanliness and Dirt

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2018)

Professor

1. Studies on the Cultural History of the Chinese Translation of the Jihe yuanbe 2. Communication and Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge along the Silk Road

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt-31 Dez 2016)

BA, SM, Doctoral Student, University of Michigan

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-31 Jul 2017)

PhD

Archipelagic Empire: Space, Sailors, and Archives in the Making of of the Early-Modern Spanish Monarchy

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-10 Jun 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, ollege of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA

The Islamic Near East Collection at the Library of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Visiting Scholar (29 Nov-28 Dez 2019)

Phd, Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages Universtiy of Stavanger, Norway

Touched Nature: A History of the Norwegian Leisure Cabin, 1850-2020

K

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Jun 2018)

MA, Doctoral Student, Columbia University

"The Myth of Greek Algebra": Philology and the Discovery of Calculus, 1580–1710

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2013-31 Jul 2016)

PhD

Big Data and the Reconstruction of Linguistic Prehistory

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Mai 2019)

PhD, Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Astrology and Archives

Visiting Scholar (22 Jan-31 Dez 2018)

Dr., Prof. em., Universität Bremen

The Power of Ethnological Interpretation of Human Behavior During the Cold War and Beyond: Konrad Lorenz, Iräneus Eibl–Eibesfeldt, Wolfgang Wickler and the MPI for Behavioral Physiology

Visiting Scholar (15 Sep-22 Okt 2018)

PhD, History Department of Humanities, Northumbria University

Derek Ratcliffe, Raptors, and the History of Conservation Science

Visiting Scholar (1 Feb-31 Mar 2017)

PhD, Historian of Medicine, Groningen University

A Historical and Critical Neuroscience of Music

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2015-30 Aug 2017)

PhD

Expansive Science: Medium and Discipline in Southern Mexican Intellectual Practice, 1880–1920

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Providence College

Aristotle's endoxa

Visiting Scholar (12 Feb-31 Mar 2018)

(15 Jul-30 Aug 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor and Interim Head of the Department of History, Drexel University

Visiting Scholar (11 Mar-11 Apr 2019)

PhD

Tines and Waves

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2019)

pkonecny@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (14 Jun-15 Jul 2019)

Tangut Astrology

jkotyk@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-30 Apr 2019)

PhD, ERC Research Professor, Faculty of Music and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford

Musica, Vox, Cantus, Sonus: Late Medieval Concepts of Sound and Listening, the Sonic World of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries, and the "Sonic Turn" in the Historical Disciplines Today

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Okt 2018-14 Jan 2019)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Leiden University

The Formulations of Shape– and Weight–Based Economies in the Bronze Age

mkuijpers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jan 2016)

Prof. Dr., Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Capaciteitsgroep Muziekwetenschap, University of Amsterdam

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Mai 2017)

PhD, Lecturer in Anthropology, Wayne State University

Stories of Tin City: Communist Ideology and Narrative Identity in the People's Republic of China

Visiting Scholar (1-15 Apr 2019)

PhD, University of Cambridge, Dept. of History and Philosohy of Science

"A Sincere and a Faithful Eye": Hand-Eye Co-ordination in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Dez 2017)

MA, Doctoral Student, Freie Universität Berlin

Listening Techniques in Post-Reformation Geneva: Evidence from the Registers of the Consistory (1542–1555)

L

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Apr 2018)

PhD

Good Science. Epistemic values and Scholarly Reputations. Europe, 1770-1830

IT Architect (1 Jun 2015-15 Aug 2020)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2016-31 Mar 2017)

PhD

Beauty and the Microscope: The Use, Design, and Values of Fashionable Instruments in the Enlightenment

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)

PhD

Practicalities in “Practical Studies” in Nineteenth–Century Korea Thinking Social and Technological Innovation through Papermaking

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2014-31 Aug 2016)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (6 Sep 2016-30 Sep 2018)

Dr. phil.

Konkurrenzfähigkeit und Flexibilität im globalen Wettbewerb: Zur diskursiven Logik befristeter Verträge in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Visiting Scholar (7-31 Mai 2018)

Research Scholar (1 Sep 2014-31 Aug 2017)

PhD

The Threat of the Desert: European Debates and Climate Change in the Late Nineteenth Century

Research Scholar (1 Jan 2004-31 Dez 2016)

PhD

History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

lehner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov-31 Dez 2018)

How Did Computers Transform Historians’ Work?

Visiting Scholar (3 Mai-2 Aug 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of History and the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, USA

Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in the Anthropocene

Visiting Scholar (3-15 Jul 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

IT Architect (1 Jan-31 Mar 2020)

RISE

hlesourd@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Princeton University

"Don't Write! Just Speak!": Towards a Media-Archaeology of Voice Mail

Visiting Scholar (17 Mar 2016-16 Mar 2017)

PhD, Lecturer, School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, China

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)

Signal, Symbol, Measure, Model: Acoustic Processing and Computational Knowledge

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor, Tianjin University

Great Wall of China—Research on Relations between Historical Message and Spatial Location

Visiting Scholar (14 Jun-15 Jul 2019)

Tangut Astrology Workshop

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1-30 Apr 2017)

PhD, Researcher, Centre Marc Bloch

Synchronizing Sounded Communities: Acoustical Practices in the Minute’s Silence and Early Radio Theory

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Honorary Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

History of Gender and Sexuality

Visiting Scholar (24 Apr-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Seoul National University

Promoting Techniques in Confucian Statecraft: Pak Chega’s “Technology Policy” in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-14 Dez 2018)

PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, The Cooper Union

Vegetable - Animal - Transformation

slowengard@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Jul 2018)

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-31 Aug 2018)

Evolution, History, Peagogy

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt-30 Nov 2019)

Chinese Local Geography before Local Gazetteers

alycas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Jan 2016)

M

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2017)

PhD, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueCentre A. Koyré, Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques

Seizing the Intangible Gestures as Objects of the Human Sciences in the Long Nineteenth Century

Visiting Scholar (15 Mai-17 Jun 2016)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (15 Mai-31 Jul 2019)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Tangut Horoscopy in Images, Objects, and Texts

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Professor, Department of English, New York University

Poetry Bound: On the Notational, the Parenthetical, the Composed

mnmclane@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-30 Apr 2018)

From Form to Norm: The Systematization of Values in German Design 192x-195x

Visiting Scholar (1 Okt 2017-30 Jun 2018)

PhD, Reader in History of Science and Medicine, Queen Mary University of London

Good Doctors: A Story of Governing and Knowing from Medieval to Modern Europe

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Jan 2019)

PhD, Emeritus Research Director, THALIM Research Unit, Paris

Theatrical Spoken-Word Records in Germany and France, 1950–1970: Repertoire, Production, Distribution, Use

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2016-31 Mar 2017)

Dr., Prof. Dr., University of Potsdam

Authors Voices on Records and Radio, 1889–1932

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte

Charting the Weather: a History of Graphical Representations in late 18th–Century Meteorology

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2015-30 Jun 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor, Princeton University

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-28 Feb 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History, St. John's University

Research on Chinese Tax and Land Registration

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2019)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Mai-14 Jul 2020)

Albertus Magnus' Approach towards an Empirical Anthropology

(1 Jan-7 Jul 2017)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Aug 2016-28 Feb 2020)

MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

tmittasch@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1-31 Mai 2019)

PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam

The Flow of Cognitive Goods: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Perspective on the History of Knowledge

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-30 Jun 2016)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-28 Feb 2017)

PhD, Affiliate Professor of Economics and Philosophy, HEC Paris

Analytic Narratives and the Semantics of Formal Decision Theories

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University

Infrastructures of Planning in Japanese Overseas Development

Visiting Scholar (1-16 Sep 2017)

PhD, Professor of History, University Foundation Professor

Paracelsus: Completing Nature, Recreating the Soul

Visiting Scholar (1 Apr-31 Jul 2020)

im Rahmen des Projekts: Measuring the Earth “One of Geometry’s Nicest Application“: Digging the Georg-Tiefer Stollen (1771–1800)

Visiting Scholar (1 Okt-31 Dez 2019)

PhD, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science

The Global History of the Swing

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Apr 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor

Souls, Science & Socialism. Parapsychology in India and South Africa, 1950-80

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2016)

PhD, Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto

N

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (6 Dez 2018-6 Jan 2019)

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-30 Nov 2015)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 Jan 2018)

PhD, Visiting Faculty, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

Ancients and Moderns: A Cultural History of Modern Science in India (1600–2000)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2017)

The Steady-State of Cultures. Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and American Anthropology 1930–1950

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Jan 2019)

PhD candidate, Department of History, Columbia University

Adopted by the World: China and the Rise of Global Intimacy

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (13 Feb-24 Mar 2017)

MA, Doctoral Candidate, Uppsala University

To Reconcile the Irreconcilable: Spatial Tools for Negotiating Environmental Conflicts in Swedish Land-use Planning

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Jul 2018)

Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Biological Individual in the Nineteenth Century

O

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)

PD Dr., Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-30 Jun 2016)

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)

PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2016)

Dr. phil.

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Member, Program in Science, Technology, and International Affairs, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Prussian Precision: Geopolitics and Measurement from Frederick the Great to the Great War

P

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-30 Apr 2019)

Philology as a Way of Knowing

kpalmieri@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Okt-31 Dez 2017)

PD Dr. phil., Research Associate and Lecturer, Musicology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Volume and Vibration. A Media and Knowledge History of Public Address Systems between Electroacoustics, Politics and Music, Germany circa 1930

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-31 Jul 2020)

Investigating the Creation of an Interdisciplinary Research Field Through Bibliographic Data The Case of Agricultural Meteorology in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)

PhD, Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Paul E. Geier Director, Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy

Architecture in Two Dimensions. From Drawing to Photography

Visiting Scholar (1 Apr-30 Jun 2016)

PhD

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-30 Nov 2017)

Doctoral Student, University of Vienna

Instituting Anthropology: The Circulation of Scientists and Ethnographic Materials between North America, German and Austria, 1883-1933

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai-31 Aug 2016)

Dipl. math.

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, York University

Exotic Animals and Domestic Life during America's Long Sexual Revolution

Visiting Scholar (10 Jun-10 Aug 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

India’s Urban Futures: Beyond the Scripts of Techno-utopia and Rural Backwardness

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-15 Aug 2016)

PhD, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Dez 2019)

PhD, Research Fellow, Argentine National Council of Science (CONICET)

The Elk, the Tapir, their Hooves, and the Falling Sickness: A Story of Substitution, Trade, and Animal Medical Substances

podgorny@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Okt-15 Dez 2019)

PhD, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin

Knowing the Shadow: The Experiential Dimension of Matter

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Organized Wisdom and Revenge of the Humdrum

(1 Apr 2015-30 Sep 2018)

Visiting Scholar (4 Okt-29 Nov 2019)

PhD

Empires of Knowledge: Colonial Patent Systems in the Atlantic World during the Industrial Age

R

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Program in History of Science, Princeton University

The Dark Glass: Alchemy in Image, Text and Practice

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-20 Aug 2016)

PhD, Associate Professor, Tufts University

Visiting Scholar (22 Jun-21 Aug 2017)

PhD, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Harvard University

Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt (1794–1863): Proto-digital Music Theory

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-30 Nov 2018)

Princeton University, PhD candidate in History of Science

The Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the Geistkreis from Vienna to the New-World, 1920-1980

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-31 Dez 2018)

PhD

Nature’s Imprint: Botanical Illustration between Northern Europe and the New World (1550–1750)

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Professor, Brown University

Generations of Reasons: A Family History

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1-31 Dez 2018)

PhD Candidate, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University

Doctors of l’Ésprit Nouveau: Human Energetics and the Formation of the French Avantgarde

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)

PhD, Professor of Global History and Culture, University of Warwick

Cultures of Innovation in Global History

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brown University

The Art of Judgement: Objects of Organization

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr-31 Jul 2016)

Dr. med., Doctoral Candidate, Princeton University

Visiting Scholar (15 Feb-14 Apr 2018)

PhD, Professor of Long Term Development of Science and Technology, University of Twente

Technologies in Use, 1760-1840: Toward a Historical and Historiographical Frame

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Jul 2018)

Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies

The Demarcation of Science in Historical Perspective

Visiting Scholar (28 Aug-10 Sep 2017)

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan

The Cybernetic State: Social Science, Information Technology, and American Government, 1955-1985

S

Visiting Scholar (6 Feb-6 Mar 2020)

German Expatriate Practitioners of Natural History

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Professor of Physics, Austin College

Development of Knowledge Systems

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2016-31 Jan 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Damascus, Syria

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-31 Aug 2020)

Dr.

Judgments of Similarity and Idealizations in Geodetical Practices

Artist in Residence (1 Mai-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Photography, School of the Art Institute, Chicago

Hopium Economy Substance Dependencies in the Anthropocene

Visiting Scholar (10 Sep 2018-6 Jan 2019)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics and Ethics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform Era China

gsantos@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Professor in History of Science, University of Wisconsin Madison

The Hermeneutics of Judgment and Critiques of Technology

Visiting Scholar (3 Apr-31 Mai 2018)

PhD, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

Algorithmic Modeling of Musical Time

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-30 Sep 2016)

MA, Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2016-31 Mar 2018)

Journalist in Residence (1 Jan-28 Feb 2017)

MA

Darwin's Reef Paradox as a Model for Media Innovation

Visiting Scholar (27 Jun-29 Jul 2016)

PhD, Prof. Dr., Tel Aviv University

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-30 Apr 2019)

PhD candidate

Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Jul 2018)

PhD, Research Associate and Editor, Darwin Correspondence Project

Artisan Naturalists

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Jul 2018)

PhD, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Knowledge in Transit

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-1 Okt 2017)

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Program in the Environment, University of Michigan

Constructing Spaceship Earth

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)

PhD Candidate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

A History of Electrification in India: 1890s–1980s

Senior Research Scholar, Group Leader (1 Sep 2012-15 Aug 2018)

PhD

A Natural History of Data; Extinction and the Value of Diversity

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)

Experts of Memory: Chanting as a Method and Verification of Learning in Tang Dynasty China

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Okt 2018)

MD, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center

Stigma and Cure: Challenge of Proof in HIV Cure Research

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Dez 2019)

PhD

Public Health, Modern Agriculture, and Wars Against Insect Enemies: Pest Control and the Making of Applied Entomology in Modern China, 1915-1960

yshen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)

PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University

Curarized Animals and the Detached Body

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)

PhD, University of Leuven

Mineral Building Materials in China. Rediscovering the Built Environments in the Large Datasets of Difangzhi, 10th–20th Centuries

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2015)

PhD, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Nov 2018)

PhD, Hans Rausing Professor of History of Science, Director, Uppsala University

Experiment, Gestural Knowledge, and Scientific Change in the Age of Precision

(1 Okt 2013-30 Jun 2016)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-31 Dez 2018)

PhD, Professor, Gallatin School, New York University

Phusis and Greek Tragedy, 5th-Century BCE

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

Seas of Fire—Earthquakes, Disasters, and Japan in the Twentieth Century

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2016-31 Aug 2017)

Dr. Phil.

Fieldswork of Knowledge

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Mai-15 Aug 2017)

PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University

Reading as Listening: The Birth of Cultural Acoustics 1764-1803

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)

PhD, Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow, Columbia University

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-30 Sep 2015)

PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard University

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)

The Science of Learning, the Practice of Education: A History of 'Anschauungspädagogik', ca. 1806-1871

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)

PhD, Reader in Classical Art, King's College London

Slight, Description and Knowledge in Imagines of the Elder Philostratus

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-31 Aug 2017)

PhD

Charting Interior and Exterior Worlds: Towards a Social Geography of Medieval Chinese Healthcare

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Jun 2018)

PhD, Center for Medicine, Health and Society

Islam through American Eyes: The Life and Culture of Clifford Geertz

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Aug 2018)

Music and the Limits of Psychology, 1910–1960

Visiting Scholar (13 Jul-1 Aug 2019)

Visualization and Material Culture of the Heavens Database

Visiting Scholar (10-31 Mai 2017)

Dr. phil., Associate Professor in the History of Medicine, University of Warwick

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2019)

PhD, Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Tuning Time: Sequences from the History of Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History, Denison University, Granville

Guji as Artefact and Category in Chinese Local Gazetteers

Visiting Scholar (19 Sep-20 Okt 2015)

PhD, Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge and Head of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2018-31 Mar 2019)

PhD Candidate, School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney

Deposing the Demon: Jan Baptista van Helmont and the Authority of Magic in Early Modern Medicine

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-28 Feb 2019)

PhD, Professor, Zhejiang University, Department of History

Local Identity and State along the Grand Canal: Transforming Agrarian Societies in the Northern Grand Canal Region, 1289–1855

jsun@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)

MA, Doctoral Candidate, Georg August University Göttingen, Columbia University

T

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-30 Jun 2017)

MA, Doctoral Candidate, Vanderbilt University

Feeding Germany: Nutrition and the German Countryside, 1871–1923

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1-31 Dez 2018)

PhD candidate, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam

The Epistemic Virtues of Humanities and Science in Nineteenth–Century Germany: A Comparative Approach

Visiting Scholar (1 Okt-30 Nov 2016)

MA, Visiting Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

mterada@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (19 Okt-3 Nov 2016)

PhD, Research Associate Professor, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (5 Mar-31 Mai 2018)

Radio-Activities: The Architecture of Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

Visiting Scholar (15 Mar-15 Apr 2019)

PhD, Professor of History, Princeton University

Sound Effects: Technicians and the Talkies in the American Film Industry, 1925-1933

Research Scholar (15 Sep 2014-15 Aug 2017)

Dr.

Science in Context, the Max Planck Society, its Social History and its Relations to the Public

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (8 Jul-31 Aug 2018)

PhD, Professor

chin. Partnergruppe

Visiting Scholar (10 Mai-17 Jun 2016)

PhD, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bard College

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-4 Okt 2017)

PhD

La Falsa Alchimia de la Quale Tanta Stima già ne Feci: Lomazzo’s Thought on Alchemy

Visiting Scholar (1 Feb-31 Mar 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of History, Bryn Mawr College

The Circulation of Invention: Roger Bacon’s Theory of Technology in Early Modern

Visiting Scholar (18 Mar 2015-29 Feb 2016)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (29 Mai-29 Jun 2017)

Dr. phil., Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Visiting Scholar (6 Jan-6 Feb 2017)

PhD, Lecturer, University of Manchester

The Earth Under Surveillance (TEUS)—Geophysics, Climate Change and the Cold War Legacy

U

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-14 Mai 2016)

Dr.

V

Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-30 Apr 2017)

PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Nova University of Lisbon

Iberian Engineering and History of Science during the Cold War: Ruptures and Continuities between Fascist and Democratic Regimes

Visiting Scholar (15 Jan-30 Jun 2018)

PhD, Advanced Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago

Guildhalls as Hybrid Socio–Religious Spaces and as Part of a Network of Religious Spaces

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor, Ohio State University

Planning a Colonial Cultural Economy: Arts and Crafts in the Belgian Congo

(1 Jan 2016-31 Dez 2017)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (11 Nov-31 Dez 2017)

Chemical Desires (1850-1929): Making the Architectural Materials of Modernity

Visiting Scholar (14 Jun-31 Dez 2019)

PhD, University Professorial Fellow, Charles Darwin University

Theory as "A Plan"—Asking about the Effects of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox in Analytic Work

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)

Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Society in the Soviet Union

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Okt 2016)

PhD

Visiting Scholar (3-30 Mar 2017)

Dr.

Journalist in Residence (1 Apr-31 Jul 2018)

Hilma af Klint and the Art of Scientific Illustration

W

Visiting Scholar (26 Okt 2016-25 Okt 2017)

PhD, Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Concessions of Interest and Struggles for Rights versus Technology Dependence: A Case Study of Jinpu Railway 1908-1937

(1-19 Aug 2016)

M.A., The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1-30 Apr 2017)

MA, Graduate Student, Columbia University

Craft and Statecraft in Qing China: 1700–1844

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2019)

PhD

Translating Experience: The Transmission of Arabo-Persian Theories on Body and Soul to China, 14th–18th Centuries

Visiting Scholar (11 Feb-9 Apr 2019)

PhD, Senior Lecturer, University College London

The Oeconomy of Muscle

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Affiliated Scholar, University of Cambridge

Darwin and the "Natural" Science of Emotions

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego

The Electric Modern: Modernity, Labor and the Visual Archive

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (18 Jul 2017-17 Jul 2018)

PhD

Narratives of Transformation: The Globalization of Indigenous Knowledge

iwilner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2015-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Worlds of Nuclear Age Knowledge and Expertise

Visiting Scholar (1-28 Feb 2019)

PhD, Philosophy, Princeton University

Futility and Transcendence: A Study of Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Jun 2019)

Staff Research Associate, Department of History, UCLA

Gardens of Steam: Projecting Industrial Culture into the Berlin Landscape

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Jun 2019)

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

Gardens of Steam: Projecting Industrial Culture into the Berlin Landscape

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Jul 2019)

Dr. philos., Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Acoustics, Sound Technologies and Music in Early 20th Century India

Visiting Scholar (4-18 Sep 2018)

PhD, Research Group Leader, Research Institute for History and Technology, Deutsches Museum

Music of Metallurgy: Bell-Founding Metal for Musical Instruments

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (19-30 Sep 2016)

PhD, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2017)

PhD, Professor in the History of Human and Animal Health, Kings College London

Animals and their Doctors in Britain, 1791–1914

Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Aug 2018)

PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

Empire of Ice: Science, Nature, and the Economy of Cold

Visiting Scholar (1-14 Jul 2018)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (10 Nov 2016-30 Mai 2017)

MPA, Doctoral Candidate, University of Science and Technology of China and Technische Universität Berlin

Origin and Development of Quantum Cryptography

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2016-31 Mar 2017)

PhD, Research Scholar, Technische Universität Berlin

Justifying the Existence of the Higgs Boson: The Logic of a "Five Sigma" Discovery

X

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1-31 Jul 2017)

PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Palace Museum Beijing and Li Foundation Visiting Fellow, Needham Research Institute

"Mount South"—History and Theory of City Planning in China, especially the Relationship between City and Natural Environment in Ancient China

Artist in Residence (1 Mai-31 Aug 2019)

The Silkworm Project

Y

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)

PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Center for the Book

Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2015)

PhD, Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-14 Jan 2019)

Geological Knowledge and the Making of Modern East Asia: A Transnational History of Petroleum Explorations in Manchuria

dyang@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Research Scholar (15 Mar 2018-12 Apr 2020)

PhD

Empire, Nature and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800

snyildiz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2020)

PhD, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte

Economics as a Coordination Tool. Investment Planning in Électricité de France, from the Nationalisation (1946) to the 1970s

gyon@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)

PhD

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Apr 2018)

Doctoral Student, University of California, Berkeley

Ontogeny of the Will and the Sciences of Child Development in Germany, 1750–1870

Visiting Scholar (18 Jun-16 Jul 2019)

Tangut Astrology Workshop Title:The Cosmic Board Divination in Medieval China: Integrated Studies on the Manuscript of Divination Book

Z

Visiting Scholar (26 Jun-24 Jul 2016)

PhD, Professor, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visiting Scholar (1-14 Jul 2018)

PhD

Gazetteer Maps of the Qing Dynasty

Visiting Scholar (6 Jun-31 Jul 2018)

The Changing Cosmology and Knowledge of the Tiger lands in Buddhist Asia

Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2017)

Professor, Doctoral Tutor, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Structural Analysis and Style Observation of Chinese Local Gazetteers

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Aug 2019)

PhD, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

The Art of Judgement: Logistical Modernity—Flows, Forms, and Spaces

Visiting Scholar (1-30 Sep 2016)

Dr. phil., Scientific Assistant of Musicology, Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich