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Creative Niche Scientists: Women Educators in North American Museums, 1880-1930
Educational opportunities for women in the second half of the nineteenth century expanded their aspirations even as changing professional developments
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Kohlstedt, S., Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role in Reframing North American Museums, 1880-1930, Centaurus (52, 2013), 153–174
Histories of Energy Resource Conservation: from Paradox to Policy
Recent global climate change agreements cast energy efficiency as one of the principle means by which signatories can limit anthropogenic climate chan
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This research project traces the manifold and under interrogated history of energy resource conservation. In doing so, it documents the development of
Alongside these forms of knowledge, the materiality of energy resources appears to have played a critical role, as geography, geology, physics, and ch
Domesticating Air—The Material History of Breathing Safely
This project, conducted with Marie-Thebaud Sorger (CNRS-Paris), seven scholars from Paris, London, Oxford, Berlin, Naples, and Santander, examines the
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Coevolutionary Approaches to the Anthropocene
How can knowledge of long-term human-environmental interactions be developed and transformed so that it is relevant to the environmental problems of t
History and Epistemology of the (Paleo-)Climate Sciences
The reconstruction of previous climates and climatic changes in Earth history is a cardinal activity for gauging the sensitivity of the climate system
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The aim of this project is to study the historical lineage and peculiar epistemic configuration of empirical data, computer models, and numerical simu
The Anthropocene Discourse as a Historical Narrative
From the broader perspective of the almost 4.6 billion years of Earth history, it could be argued that the Anthropocene concept requires a revision of
Disaster Preparedness in Japan and Global Transfer of Knowledge 1890–1970
Located on the Pacific Rim and surrounded by the Pacific and Japanese Seas, Japan has both profited from the resources of the ocean and suffered from
Greek Middle Class Women and the Transmission of Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Poly Giannakopoulou's project focused on women’s involvement in science in Greece during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at a time
Disaster Research and Preparedness and Global Transfer of Knowledge
This research project served as an attempt to develop a historical account of disaster research and expertise in various contexts. Disaster research,
Scientific and Technological Expertise in Industrial Europe
In continuation of a project on eighteenth-century scientific-technological experts, useful knowledge and “useful sciences," this project follows the