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Director: Lorraine Daston
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Director
Director (Since Jul 1995)
PhD, Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science
Services & Administration
Departmental Assistant
Researchers 2017–18
Visiting Scholar (12 Sep 2018-12 Dec 2018)
PhD, Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities, Professor of History, Northwestern University
A History of Artificial Beings
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2016-30 Sep 2018)
Dr.
The Physician's Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD. Professor of History, University of Paris 1
Mesmerism and Politics on the Eve of the French Revolution
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D., Professor Emerita of History, University of California at Davis, USA
Medieval Science on the Road to Maturity
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD. Professor and Director of Research, CNRS, France
Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World
Research Scholar (Since Sep 2012)
Dr.
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Rewriting the World in Southwest India
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia, Lecturer, School for the History and Philosophy of Science
The Known and the Lived: Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, 1903 - 1945
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2016-30 Jun 2019)
PhD
From Electrotype to the Electric Image: Global Vision, c. 1830–1920
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-28 Feb 2019)
Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Oct 2018)
Ph.D., Columbia University, Professor of Philosophy
Deweyan pragmatism in the 21st Century
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Oct 2018)
Columbia University, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of Humanities
Kant on the Unity of Self-Consciousness in the Unity of Perception Kant's Theory of Moral Agency
Visiting Scholar (Sep 2018-30 Sep 2018)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Dept. of History and Philosohy of Science
'A sincere and and a faithful eye': Hand-Eye Co-ordination in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2018-31 Dec 2018)
How did computers transform historians’ work?
MPG Minerva Research Group Leader (1 Sep 2012-28 Feb 2019)
Dr. Phil.
Reading and Writing Medicine in Early Modern England
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D., Professor
Herodotus and the Modern Sciences
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-30 Nov 2018)
The Birth of the Individual Authorship in Medieval Judaism (10th-12th centuries) in the Baghdadian and Andalusian Islamicate milieux.
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
The shaping of generality in 19th century enumerative geometry
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Charting the Weather: a History of Graphical Representations in late 18th-century Meteorology
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-1 Jun 2020)
Ph.D., Dr. phil., Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
Commentaries on mathematical Texts in a Comparative Perspective
Senior Research Scholar (Since Jun 2005)
PD Dr.
The Science of Statistics and the Politics of Censustaking; Early Childhood Development Studies in Nineteenth-Century America
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-28 Feb 2019)
Philology as a Way of Knowing
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of the History of Science
A New History of Medieval Science: Knowledge and its Objects in Latin Europe and the Islamicate World
Visiting Scholar (Sep 2018-30 Sep 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 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Program in History of Science, Princeton University
The Dark Glass: Alchemy in Image, Text and Practice
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-30 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 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D.
Nature’s Imprint: Botanical Illustration between Northern Europe and the New World (1550-1750)
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D., Professor
Generations of Reasons: A Family History
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Dec 2018-31 Mar 2019)
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 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Ph.D., Professor of History
Data: A Quantitative History
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-30 Nov 2018)
Ph.D., Professor, École normale supérieure de Paris
Editing Le mecaniche and reevaluating the practical knowledge of Renaissance engineers
Visiting Scholar (Oct 2018-31 Oct 2018)
MD, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Stigma and Cure: challenge of proof in HIV cure research
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-31 Mar 2019)
PhD candidate, Dept. for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sidney
Usurping the Demon: Jan Baptista van Helmont and Magical Authority in Early Modern Medicine
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Society in the Soviet Union
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (10 Sep 2018-30 Nov 2018)
PhD
Transmission of Medical Knowledge Embedded in Islamic Texts to China, 17th–19th Centuries