Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Jul 2022-14 Jul 2023)
“Heal Thyself": Citizens and the Construction of Knowledges of Care in Contemporary Iran
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2020-31 Jul 2021)
Engineered Modernity: A Critical History of Computing in People's Republic of China
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 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)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jun-14 Jul 2024)
Climate Alarmism and the 1979 US Energy Crisis
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Nov 2023-30 Apr 2024)
Dr.
Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 Sep-2 Okt 2018)
PhD
Beyond the Canon: Towards a History of Mathematical Practices in India
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
Affiliated Scholar (17 Mai-16 Jun 2022)
Can Illustrations Help to Know God? The Case of Hildegard of Bingen’s Rupertsberg Codex
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 Predoctoral Fellow (15 Feb 2023-30 Jun 2024)
Erfassung der Psyche und Einhegung von Körperlichkeit: Die Geschichte apparativen, psychologischen Testens und das Verhältnis von Hand- und Kopfarbeit
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 Predoctoral Fellow (3 Jul-22 Sep 2023)
“Arsenic Valley”: Cultural Histories of Environmentalism and Computing
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 (9 Sep-8 Okt 2021)
Frau Prof. Dr.
Yuan Emissaries: Towards a History of Mongol Diplomacy
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
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2017-31 Dez 2020)
PhD
Mapping the Arab City: Alexandria, Cairo and Tunis in the Early Modern Period
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
Visiting Scholar (8 Sep-7 Dez 2016)
PhD, Senior Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, India
Digital Content Curator (15 Sep 2022-14 Sep 2024)
Digital Content Curator Working Group 'Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens' in Abt. III
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (2 Jan 2023-31 Mai 2024)
Prof. Dr.
Itineraries of Astral Imagery and Their Economic Contexts Between 500 BCE and 1500 CE
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
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (31 Aug 2022-31 Mai 2023)
Dr.
Empire of the Night Sky: The Politics of Astrological Knowledge in Qing China
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 (1 Okt 2021-31 Jul 2022)
Dr.
Between Astronomy, Astrology, and Religion: The Planets and their Visualizations in the Graeco-Roman Wider Mediterranean (ca. 300 BCE to 600 CE)
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
Research Scholar (1 Nov 2022-31 Mar 2024)
Thema: Maschinelles Lernen in und für die Archäologie
Visiting Scholar (1 Apr-31 Mai 2023)
Prof. Dr.
Wissenschaftliche Entdeckung, Serendipity, und Gedankenexperiment
Visiting Scholar (15 Mai-14 Aug 2023)
Figures of the Invisible: Geometrical Icons in Renaissance Christian Humanism, 1300-1600
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 (1 Jul-31 Okt 2021)
Prof.
Intersection of Synthetic Biology and Astrobiology
Visiting Scholar (25 Sep-25 Okt 2022)
Dr.
The Mobility of Natural History Collections: Dead Animals, Museums, and Digitization
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2021-31 Jul 2022)
Mathematics, the Body and the Soul: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Certainty in the 17th Century
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
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-31 Jul 2023)
Dr.
Science as Prophecy: Measuring Climates Past, Present and Future
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
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 (1-31 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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-30 Sep 2020)
PhD
Experience and Observation in Narboni's Commentaries on Maimonides' Treatises
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 (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 (15 Jan-14 Jul 2021)
CRISPR-Cas9 to Improve the Population Quality?
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 Scholar (1 Jan-31 Aug 2023)
The Science of Children
Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2021)
Prof.
Six Dynasties Musical Treatises
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 Senior Research Fellow (1 Okt 2022-31 Aug 2024)
Prof.
Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics
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 Nov-31 Dez 2022)
Dr.
Fishy Stories: Multidisciplinary Methods of Tracing Cod Remains in the Early Modern Northwest Atlantic
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Hidden Reserves in Socialist Planning: From Historical Consciousness to Science and Expertise
Visiting Scholar (1 Okt 2022-31 Aug 2023)
Prof.
Numeracy in Ancient Greece and Rome
Visiting Scholar (1-31 Okt 2015)
PhD, Lecturer in History of Science, University of Cambridge
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan 2021-31 Dez 2023)
Dr.
Twentieth-Century Health Diplomacy and Antimicrobial Resistance
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2023-31 Mar 2024)
Latin-into-Hebrew: Medieval Natural Science across Linguistic Boundaries
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
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
Affiliated Scholar (24 Jun-10 Sep 2022)
The Experience of Uncertainty: Generation in European Medicine, 1500-1650
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
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Dez 2022-31 Aug 2024)
Standardization in Post-War Life Sciences
(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
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
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
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Aug 2023)
Prof.
Lost People on the Ming Frontiers: Captivity and Labor Acquisition in Early Modern China
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
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
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
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
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 (1 Mai-30 Jun 2019)
Associate Professor of Art, School of Art and Art History, UIC
Hopium Economy Substance Dependencies in the Anthropocene
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Apr 2023-31 Mar 2024)
Screenscapes: How Formats Render Territories
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 (9 Nov 2016-18 Jan 2017)
PhD, Professor of German Literature, Basel University
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-30 Nov 2021)
Of Soils and Stars: Jesuit perceptions of Chinese agricultural practices through calendrical construction
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
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2020-31 Aug 2021)
The Treadmill of Protection: Evaluating the Social Costs of Saving Disappearing Coasts
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 Scholar (12 Jul-15 Aug 2024)
Prof. Dr.
The Politicization of Science in China: A Case Study of Smog Governance
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 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
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
Senior Research Fellow (1 Mai-31 Aug 2024)
Dr.
The Impossible Science: A Critical Sociology of Pain Science
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jun-30 Sep 2023)
Prof.
hat was, who were, and where were yi from 12th- to 16th-century China?
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-19 Feb 2022)
Dr.
"Understanding the Anthropocene": The Level of the Sea
Affiliated Scholar (6 Jul-31 Dez 2022)
Dr.
Transience: Politics and Practices of Time in the Chinese Period of Division (4th–7th centuries)
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 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?
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-30 Nov 2021)
Fertiliser Knowledge in Ming-Qing China: Construction, Distribution, and Circulation
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
Visiting Scholar (2-18 Jan 2023)
Prof. Dr.
Matter, Causation, and Experimental Knowledge in Early Modern Scholastic Natural Science from Colonial Chile and Ecuador
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
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
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 Predoctoral Fellow (20 Sep-20 Nov 2022)
Travelling the Graphic Tactility: Pulse Illustrations in Seventeenth-Century Medical Exchange between China and Europe
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Dez 2020)
PhD
Biology for the Nation: The International Biological Program in South Korea and Taiwan during the Cold War Era, 1961-1975
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2020)
PhD
Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-15 Sep 2016)
PhD, Professor of History, New York University
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-31 Dez 2022)
Dr.
Climate Change, Apicultures in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Ecological Overtones of Islamic Eschatology, Which Orient the Local Beekeeping Practices
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
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (31 Jan-30 Sep 2020)
Experience of Soul and Body in the Chinese Jesuit Sciences, 1583-1683
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
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2024)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2021-28 Feb 2022)
Artifact and Tonality: Musical Instrument Makers as Invisible Technicians in Twentieth Century South India
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-30 Jun 2023)
Dr.
Giving Water Shape and Sound in Early Modern Istanbul
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 (17 Sep 2021-30 Jun 2022)
Prof.
Diverse relationships between humans and other animals in cities
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
Research Group Leader (1 Apr 2021-31 Aug 2024)
Dr.
Practices of Validation in Biomedical Research
Affiliated Scholar (1 Okt-31 Dez 2022)
Dr.
„Datenbank über Musikinstrumente in Gräbern aus den sechs Dynastien“
Visiting Scholar (1 Okt-31 Dez 2020)
Role of the Animals in Bohai and Jurchen Societies (on the Base of Studies of the Archeological Materials from Medieval Sites in the Russian Far East)
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Providence College
Aristotle's endoxa
Affiliated Scholar (1 Jul-5 Aug 2022)
Dr.
Galen’s Philosophic Science in the Compendium of the Timaeus according to the Arabic Translation of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (CE 808-877)
Visiting Scholar (15 Jun-31 Jul 2021)
Prof.
Working Group Transience: Politics and Practices of Time in the Chinese Period of Division (4th - 7th centuries) - (Chronoi) No Easy Way Out: Ge Hong's Rejection of Utopianism, while Attempting to Fix and Escape the World
(15 Jul-30 Aug 2016)
PhD, Associate Professor and Interim Head of the Department of History, Drexel University
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (14 Nov 2022-31 Aug 2024)
The Cooperation of German and Ukrainian Scientists in Agricultural Research (19th to First Half of the 20th Century)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-31 Dez 2020)
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond IP
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2020-28 Feb 2021)
Meat Consumption and Breeding of Cows in Late-Nineteenth Century Japan
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
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)
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Apr 2018)
PhD
Good Science. Epistemic values and Scholarly Reputations. Europe, 1770-1830
Visiting Scholar (1 Feb-31 Aug 2023)
Dr.
Subjectivity and Diagnosis in Greek and Roman Medicine
Visiting Scholar (16 Mai 2018-31 Dez 2022)
Analyzing the Patterns and Mechanisms Driving the Great Acceleration of the Anthropocence
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 (6 Sep 2016-30 Sep 2018)
Dr. phil.
Konkurrenzfähigkeit und Flexibilität im globalen Wettbewerb: Zur diskursiven Logik befristeter Verträge in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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
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
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2021-30 Jun 2022)
Prof. Dr.
Excellence and Diversity in Global Scientific Practice
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 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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2022-31 Mar 2024)
Dr.
Validating Quantitative Constructs Before the Rise of Construct Validation: Historical and Epistemological Dimensions
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (21 Okt-16 Dez 2022)
Dr.
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down (RTAWD): Animal Cosmologies and Paths to Indigenous Sciences
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (8 Aug 2022-23 Feb 2023)
Dr.
The Lotus Dome of Heaven in Buddhist Asia
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt-30 Nov 2019)
Chinese Local Geography before Local Gazetteers
Visiting Scholar (23 Mai-24 Jun 2022)
Prof. Dr.
The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr-31 Aug 2023)
Dr.
How the Field Allocation Went into Local Chronicles
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jul 2022-31 Okt 2023)
Prof. Dr.
The Nile and its Major Projects during the Mamluk Period im Rahmen der Working Group: Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100-1700) in Abt. III
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-31 Dez 2022)
Dr.
Lunar Diagrams and Representations in Byzantine in Byzantine and Slavonic Manuscripts (9th-15th C), Im Rahmen der Dept. III Arbeitsgruppe "Visualizations and Material Cultures of the Heavens"
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov-31 Dez 2021)
Dr.
Sesible Taxonomies Medieval Accounts of Animal Perception
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-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
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2022)
Dr.
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: The “Eurasian” Life of a Seventeenth Century “European” Botanical Classic
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Mai-14 Jul 2020)
Albertus Magnus' Approach towards an Empirical Anthropology
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Aug 2016-28 Feb 2020)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Mai-31 Jul 2021)
Dr.
Politics and Practices of Time in the Chinese Period of Division (4th - 7th centuries) - (Chronoi): 'Text Reading in the History of Medieval Chinese Harmonics (lü)'
Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-31 Aug 2022)
Prof.
Medieval Ingenium: Knowledge, Experience, and Technology
Visiting Scholar (1 Okt-31 Dez 2019)
PhD, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
The Global History of the Swing
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-31 Okt 2021)
China in Europe Research Network
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Apr 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor
Souls, Science & Socialism. Parapsychology in India and South Africa, 1950-80
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-30 Sep 2022)
Prof. Dr
Knowledges in Transit: Linnaeus's Laplandic Journey (1732)
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Jun 2016)
PhD, Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
Visiting Scholar (1-31 Jul 2021)
Dr.
Dealing with transience during the Sixteen States Period of Early Medieval China
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 2022)
Materiality as a Constructed Notion: Bamboo Basket Makers Can Tell the Story ?
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2020-30 Sep 2023)
Agricultural Uses of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
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
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-29 Feb 2024)
PhD
Barren Structures: The Problem of Sterility in the Age of Plenty
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
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 (1-30 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
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-30 Apr 2019)
Philology as a Way of Knowing
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jul-30 Sep 2021)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Insects as Knowledge Goods and Global Commodities: Hans Sauter's Formosa Collections
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-31 Aug 2021)
Entanglements of Ethnographic and Naturalist Knowledge as Epistemic Genres and the ‘Scientific’ Racialization of Indian Food and Agriculture, 16th- 17th c.
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 (6 Apr-30 Jun 2023)
Prof.
Ecophenomenology and existentialism in the context of climate change
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
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
Postdoctoral Scholar (7 Sep 2021-31 Dez 2023)
Dr.
Civilisation and Human/Animal Division in Russian Nineteenth-Century Medical Topographies and Ethnographic Accounts
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2023)
Dr.
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Diagrams, Artefacts, and Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 1000-1500 CE)
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
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
Visiting Scholar (4 Okt-29 Nov 2019)
PhD
Empires of Knowledge: Colonial Patent Systems in the Atlantic World during the Industrial Age
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-31 Dez 2023)
"Servants of Science:" The Making and Unmaking of Chimpanzees as Laboratory Animals in the 20th Century
Visiting Scholar (15 Jun-31 Jul 2021)
Prof.
“Sound, Time, and Empire in the Chinese Period of Division”
Affiliated Scholar (11 Jul-19 Aug 2022)
Dr.
Epidemic Temporalities: Time and Desease in Medieval Islamic Medicine
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 (24 Aug 2020-30 Jun 2022)
Prof.
Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Jul 2021)
PhD
Vertical World: Politics, Nature and Climbing in the Twentieth Century
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
Visiting Scholar (6 Sep 2021-13 Jul 2022)
Prof.
The Great Battle of Cartesianisms. How Cartesians tried to Conquer the French Public with Natural Philosophy (1637-1691)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2023-31 Mar 2024)
Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistories, and Commercial Geography Between Southeast Asia and Europe, c. 1600-1750
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2021-30 Jun 2023)
The Mongols and Mamluk Agricultural Manuals (kutub al-filāḥa)? Understanding the Circulation of Agricultural Knowledge between East and West Asia
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Mai-14 Nov 2022)
Congenital Anomalies in Medieval French Romance and Medicine
Affiliated Scholar (7-27 Nov 2022)
PhD
Chinese Domestic Debates on Sino-Russian Relations Following the War in Ukraine
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
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
Research Scholar (1 Apr 2019-31 Dez 2023)
Dr. med.
Comparative Epistemology and the History of Clinical Research
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-30 Sep 2016)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2020-30 Dez 2023)
Dr.
Chinese Ideas of Africa in an Age of Global Expansion
Affiliated Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Mai 2023)
Prof.
Doormen and other intermediaries in Ming (1368-1644) society, history, law, and culture
Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Apr 2023-30 Sep 2024)
Dr.
The Use and Reuse of Paper in the Humanities
Journalist in Residence (1 Jan-28 Feb 2017)
MA
Darwin's Reef Paradox as a Model for Media Innovation
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 (1-30 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
Visiting Scholar (15 Jun-15 Dez 2022)
Dr.
Of the Astral Divinities and Heavens in South, Central, and East Asia
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
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (20 Sep-31 Okt 2021)
The Tension of Fashion: Oriental silks and Italian Art in the 14th Century
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (10 Jun-1 Aug 2022)
Dr.
Underground Water Explorations in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
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
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-31 Mai 2023)
PhD
Carbon Cosmotechnics
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (11 Jul-11 Aug 2022)
“Language and Governance in Qing Inner Asia”
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2021-31 Mar 2022)
Candido Baptista De Oliveira and the “Memória Sobre O Estabelecimento De Observatório No Rio De Janeiro”: The First Step to Introduce Institutionalization of Astronomy in the Brazilian Empire (1824-1846)
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 Sep 2020-30 Jun 2021)
The Natural Sciences in Morocco in the 17th-18th Century
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
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-15 Aug 2021)
The Energetics of the “Muscle Machine”: From Isolated Muscle to Proteins, Fibers, and Filaments
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2016)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Georg August University Göttingen, Columbia University
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2022-31 Mar 2023)
Dr.
Breeding Against Extinction: Knowledges and Practices of Species Conservation in Interwar Poland
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
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (9 Sep 2019-31 Dez 2020)
PhD
DFG-Project: Mediterranean and Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?
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 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
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
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai 2020-30 Jun 2021)
Collecting Ears: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in Early Modern Europe
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
Journalist in Residence (1 Apr-31 Jul 2018)
Hilma af Klint and the Art of Scientific Illustration
Affiliated Scholar (1-31 Jul 2022)
Prof.
Putting knowledge to practice: ‘reading "agricultural" terraces in medieval Palestine
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
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 Apr-31 Mai 2023)
Moving mountains: earth matters between terrestrial and social scales
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
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
Research Scholar, IT Architect (1 Mar 2022-31 Mai 2023)
Dr.
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-31 Okt 2021)
Dr.
China's Engagement in European Research, Innovation and Higher Education
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
Affiliated Scholar (1-31 Jul 2022)
Dr.
Western Learning in the fenye chapters of Qing dynasty local gazetteers
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
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
Research Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2024)
Dr.
Reaping the Benefits of Water - The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China.
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
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2020-28 Feb 2022)
Zhu Yuanzhang and the Nanjing City Wall
Affiliated Scholar (1 Dez 2021-31 Dez 2022)
Dr.
A Study on the Commercial General Maps in the Late Qing Dynasty
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-31 Dez 2020)
Trust and Perspectivalism in the History of Epistemology
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-31 Aug 2022)
Dr.
The "Persian Wheel" and its Impact in 16th to 18th Century India
Research Scholar (15 Mar 2018-12 Apr 2020)
PhD
Empire, Nature and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800
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
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
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Aug 2021-31 Dez 2023)
Dr.
China's Artificial Intelligence Imaginaries and Policy Development
Visiting Scholar (26 Jun-24 Jul 2016)
PhD, Professor, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-31 Aug 2021)
Famine Plant Manuals in the Sinosphere (1406–1800)
Visiting Scholar (4 Okt 2021-4 Jul 2022)
Frau
Coping Mechanisms and Food Insecurity: A Historical Approach to Health in Extremis
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