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Jonathan Harwood
Jonathan Harwood was born in the US (1943) and educated at Wesleyan Universit...
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The Global Grey Parrot: The Worldwide History of a Charismatic African Animal
“The Global Grey Parrot” puts a charismatic African animal (Psittacus erithacus and P. timneh) at the center of world history. Drawing on diverse sour
Temperate Clime and Place
By mid-eighteenth century, the concept of climate had come into being as an empirically quantifiable aggregate of things like temperature, humidity, a
Desert Black: Arid Lands and Imperial Democracy in the Transatlantic World
Desert Black: Arid Lands and Imperial Democracy in the Transatlantic World is a book-length project that explores the transnational circulations
Rare Earth: Geohistories, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750
Until the mid-eighteenth century, most of the world’s precious stones were mined and consumed in South and Southeast Asia, from deposits that remained
Nature’s Place at the Colonial Museum
My project explores the unnaturally dominant place of natural history knowledge and practice in Australian settler-colonial science, politics, and his
Archival Dispossessions: Archives, Empire, and the Epistemological Limits of the Nation-State
National archives are influential technologies of the nation-state. They are sites which are constructed through exercises of power and act as vectors
A Sense for Statistics: Quantifying Sensibility and Communal Difference in Modern India
The rise of quantification has entrenched the interchangeability of modern rationality with enumerative thinking, yet this form of reasoning has also
Bridging Environmental Movements with Arts-Based Research
Extractive projects and the rise of environmental movements have generated profound tensions across various regions, reshaping both ecological landsca
The Hereditarian Roots of Diversity in the Sexual Division of Labor
What does diversity have to do with gender norms? To understand their connection, this project argues that we must trace their history back to the ide