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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
Researchers 2017–18
Visiting Scholar (Feb 2018-28 Feb 2018)
Professor of History, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Exemplum and Wundertier—Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2016-30 Sep 2018)
Dr.
The Physician's Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking
Visiting Scholar (2 Jan 2017-31 Jul 2018)
PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
The Status of Practical Geometry and its Relations to Theoretical and Applied Geometrical Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Treatises of Practical Geometry
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2018-31 Mar 2018)
Professor for the History of Science
Rewriting Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medical Epistemology
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 May 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Between Law and Science: Unsoundness of Mind in Anglo-American Medical Jurisprudence
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2018-31 Mar 2018)
Professor of Early Modern History, History Department, Royal Holloway
Early Vernacular Medical Books, Users and Uses, Impact
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Dec 2017)
Doctoral Student, University of Wisconsin–Madison
"The Science of Prophecy?" The Role of Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916-2015
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 (1 Nov 2017-1 Dec 2017)
PhD, Research Professor
Jean Senebier (1742-1809) and the Eighteenth-century ars observandi
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2017-31 Dec 2017)
PhD
Exploring the Origins of Earth System Science
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2018-31 Mar 2018)
Archiving the Brain
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
Research Scholar (Since Sep 2012)
Dr.
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2018-31 May 2018)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2017-31 Oct 2017)
MA, Doctoral Student, University of Cambridge
Serpents and Empire: Modern Encounters with Natural History, c. 1780-1870
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2018-30 Apr 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
The “Smartness” Mandate: A Genealogy of Automated Ecologies
Visiting Scholar (1 Apr 2018-31 May 2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2016-30 Jun 2019)
PhD
From Electrotype to the Electric Image: Global Vision, c. 1830–1920
Visiting Scholar (24 Aug 2017-24 Sep 2017)
DPhil, Reader in Early Modern History, University of York
Early Modern Notions of Cleanliness and Dirt
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
Visiting Scholar (Apr 2018-30 Apr 2018)
PhD
Good Science. Epistemic values and Scholarly Reputations. Europe, 1770-1830
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2018-30 Jun 2018)
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Computerizing Diagnosis: Minds, Medicine, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2017)
PhD
Practicalities in “Practical Studies” in Nineteenth-Century Korea Thinking Social and Technological Innovation through Papermaking
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 2017-31 Oct 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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2018-30 Apr 2018)
From Form to Norm: The Systematization of Values in German Design 192x-195x
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 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 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)
PhD
Hortus Oceanus Indicus: The Calcutta Botanic Garden and the Making of the Indian Ocean Environment, 1786-184
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2018-30 Jun 2018)
Charting the Weather: a History of Graphical Representations in late 18th-century Meteorology
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2018-31 Mar 2018)
Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Research Council
A Global History of Human Teeth
External Scientific Member (Since Nov 2010)
Professor
Etymology and Allegoresis in the Ancient Greek Scholarly Traditions
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2018-30 Apr 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor
Souls, Science & Socialism. Parapsychology in India and South Africa, 1950-80
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 2017-31 Dec 2017)
The Steady-State of Cultures. Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and American Anthropology 1930–1950
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2018-31 Jul 2018)
Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Politics of Popularization and the Fate of Physiology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany
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 Mar 2018-31 May 2018)
Children of Science: Development, Psychology, and Visual Media Technology in Arnold Gesell's Developmental Psychology (1911-1953)
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2018-31 Mar 2018)
Philology as a Way of Knowing
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Nov 2017)
Doctoral Student, University of Vienna
Instituting Anthropology: The Circulation of Scientists and Ethnographic Materials between North America, German and Austria, 1883-1933
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2016-30 Sep 2017)
PhD
Nature’s Imprint: Botanical Illustration between Northern Europe and the New World (1550-1750)
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2018-31 Jul 2018)
PhD, Research Associate and Editor, Darwin Correspondence Project
Artisan Naturalists
Senior Research Scholar, Group Leader (1 Sep 2012-31 Dec 2018)
PhD
A Natural History of Data; Extinction and the Value of Diversity
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 2018-31 Mar 2018)
PhD, Reader in Classical Art
Slight, Description and Knowledge in Imagines of the Elder Philostratus
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mar 2018-31 Mar 2018)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-4 Oct 2017)
PhD
La Falsa Alchimia de la Quale Tanta Stima già ne Feci: Lomazzo’s Thought on Alchemy
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (11 Nov 2017-31 Dec 2017)
Chemical Desires (1850-1929): Making the Architectural Materials of Modernity
Visiting Scholar (Mar 2018-31 Mar 2018)
Research Professor, Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies
Personhood and the Locked-in Syndrome
Senior Research Scholar (Since Sep 1994)
Dr., Honorarprofessorin HU Berlin
History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2018-30 Jun 2018)
"Though their Causes be not yet discover'd": Occult Traditions in the Making of Newton's Natural Philosophy
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)
PhD
Transmission of Medical Knowledge Embedded in Islamic Texts to China, 17th–19th Centuries
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 Dec 2017)
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
The Electric Modern: Modernity, Labor and the Visual Archive
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