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Gina Surita
Gina Surita is a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. Her...
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Keith Knapp
Keith Knapp received his PhD in East Asian history from the University of California, Berkeley, ...
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Monique Nagel-Angermann
Monique Nagel-Angermann studied Sinology and Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Archaeology at t...
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Ian Patrick Gray
Ian Gray is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. His researc...
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Knowledge in Translation: Linnaeus and Other Knowledges
I will use my stay at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science to pursue two interrelated research projects. The first, in collaboration wi
Putting Knowledge to Practice: “Reading” Agricultural Terraces in Medieval Palestine
This project critically examines peasant knowledge and practice in land use in the medieval Levant through a combination of archaeological and textual
Visualizations of the Planets in the Graeco-Roman World (ca. 300 BCE-600 CE)
Using texts and images, this project explores the ways in which the planets were imagined and visually represented in the Graeco-Roman world in a diac
A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
The “Persian Wheel” and Its Impact in 16th to 18th Century India
In India, the Persian wheel or saqiya was probably imported around the thirteenth or fourteenth century in the wake of the Turkish conquests of northe
Time Bell in Northern Wei Luoyang: The Soundscape of a Nomadic Buddhist City
The Northern and Southern Dynasties (439–589 CE) were eras of innovation. During these eras, the cultural complex of agricultural area in East Eurasia