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Director Lorraine Daston
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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
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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
Visiting Scholar (16 Jan 2019-15 Feb 2019)
Professor of History at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University
A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1480–1630
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-30 Jun 2019)
Dr.
The Physician's Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking
Visiting Scholar (2 Jan 2017-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
The Status of Practical Geometry and its Relations to Theoretical and Applied Geometrical Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Treatises of Practical Geometry
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Dec 2018-1 Jan 2019)
PhD Candidate, Queens College, History Faculty, University of Oxford
Gottfried Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant (1672–1679). Scientist, Projector and Courtier: Gottfried Leibniz’s Poetic of Ambiguity as an Instrument of Advancement
Visiting Scholar (Dec 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, Professeur émérite d'Histoire moderne, Université Paris Diderot Paris 7
Mineralogy, Art and Architecture in the Eyes of XVIIIth–Early XIXth Century Travelers
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, 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
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2019-31 Aug 2019)
PhD, Associate Professor of American Studies, Washington University
The Science of Children
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jun 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology
Empire of Routine: The Unexpected Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth Century Qing State
Research Group Leader (1 Mar 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD
Thinking in Tables: Translating Medical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Europe
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 (Jan 2019-31 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
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)
PhD, 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 PerceptionKant's Theory of Moral Agency
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2018-31 Dec 2018)
How Did Computers Transform Historians’ Work?
MPG Minerva Research Group Leader (1 Mar 2019-30 Jun 2019)
Dr. Phil.
Reading and Writing Medicine in Early Modern England
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, Professor, Louisiana State University
Herodotus and the Modern Sciences
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, Professor, Department of English, New York University
Poetry Bound: On the Notational, the Parenthetical, the Composed
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)
PhD, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
Charting the Weather: a History of Graphical Representations in late 18th–Century Meteorology
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-1 Jun 2020)
PhD, Dr. phil., Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
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
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD candidate, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany
Visual History of Developmental Psychology
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-30 Apr 2019)
Philology as a Way of Knowing
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, 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 (1 Sep 2018-31 Oct 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 (Jun 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Organized Wisdom and Revenge of the Humdrum
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, 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)
PhD
Nature’s Imprint: Botanical Illustration between Northern Europe and the New World (1550–1750)
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, Professor, Brown University
Generations of Reasons: A Family History
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Dec 2018-31 Dec 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 Jan 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Professor of History, University of Oregon
Data: A Quantitative History
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2019-14 Apr 2019)
PhD, Professor, École normale supérieure de Paris
Editing "Le mecaniche" and Reevaluating the Practical Knowledge of Renaissance Engineers
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2016-31 Aug 2018)
MA, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
Making Things Alive. Animation as Cultural and Epistemic Practic
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 Scholar (Nov 2018-30 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 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, Professor, Gallatin School, New York University
Phusis and Greek Tragedy, 5th-Century BCE
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-31 Mar 2019)
PhD candidate, School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sidney
Deposing the Demon: Jan Baptista van Helmont and the Authority of Magic in Early Modern Medicine
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Dec 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD candidate, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
The Epistemic Virtues of Humanities and Science in Nineteenth–Century Germany: A Comparative Approach
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 (15 Jan 2019-30 Nov 2019)
PhD
Breathing Between Laboratory and Clinic, 1885-1968
Visiting Scholar (11 Feb 2019-9 Apr 2019)
PhD, Senior Lecturer, University College London
The Oeconomy of Muscle
Visiting Scholar (Feb 2019-28 Feb 2019)
PhD, Philosophy, Princeton University
Futility and Transcendence: A Study of Kant’s Critical Philosophy
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2019-30 Jun 2019)
Staff Research Associate, Department of History, UCLA
Gardens of Steam: Projecting Industrial Culture into the Berlin Landscape