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Circulating Filth: Oeconomic Chemistry and Recycling, 1700–1830
My research focuses on the history of oeconomic chemistry and recycling in Western Europe, 1700–1830. The term "oeconomy" loosely referred to the prin
Commoning Biomedicine: Networking Decentralized Collections of Oral Histories
This digital humanities project (2022–2024) aimed to bring together numerous oral history repositories that can already be found online in a manner th
Carola Ossmer
Carola Oßmer is a historian of science, knowledge, and culture. Before joinin...
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Vanessa Finney
Dr Vanessa Finney is a historian and curator at the Australian Museum in Sydn...
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Brooke Peñaloza-Patzak
Brooke Peñaloza-Patzak is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department on...
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Purebred: Making Meat and Eugenics in the Modern United States
Contemporary industrial meat agriculture requires the intensive governance of animal reproduction through technologies such as artificial insemination
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Wu Yun's 吳筠 "Rhapsody on the Darkling Gibbon" and its Daoist Contexts
A Chinese “rhapsody” 賦 is a long poetic form meant to “set forth / present” 賦 all aspects of a subject. The Daoist priest Wu Yün’s 吳筠 (d. 778)’s rhaps
Making Animal Materialities in Time
The work of recreating the stickiness of a gecko’s toes or mimicking a biological morphology through mineralization exemplify how materials science en
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The research carried out by the Working Group culminated in a special issue published in HSNS 53 (3) in July 2023.
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Working Group, Kjell Ericson, Particpants, Astrid Schrader
Got Milk? Historical Molecular and Microbiomic Interventions in the Gene-Culture Coevolution of Lactase Persistence
The ability to digest the key sugar in fresh milk, lactose, owes to the activity of a special enzyme produced during infancy known as lactase. Product
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Our inquiry focuses upon how changing diagnostic tools have either reinforced or countered longstanding scientific understandings about the global dis
Bovine Regimes: When Animals Become Technology
Bovines have been bred for their milk, meat, urine, fodder, blood, and their ability to carry loads for millennia. Arguably more than any other nonhum
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