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Archiving the Doomed. Fashioning a Public Science of Conservation
During his stay Jean-Baptiste Gouyon investigated ARKive, an Internet database of images and recordings of animals, the associated claims to knowledge
The Collecting and Study of Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1830s-1910s
Stefanie Gänger'S PhD project examined the collecting and study of pre-Hispanic artefacts in nineteenth-century Chile and Peru. Though the role of for
Peat Bogs as Biological Archives: Lennart von Post and the Development of Pollen Statistics during World War I
By exploring the early history of quantitative palynology, especially the cultural processes and material practices through which pollen became data a
Overcoming the Division of Labor in Global Tectonics: Eduard Suess‘ The Face of the Earth
In the late nineteenth century, geological research practices were subject to a definite change. Geology turned from stratigraphy, i.e., the ordering
Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
The visual documentation of famine in nineteenth-century India provides a frame for understanding how modalities of classification, institutional prac
Dream Watchers. A History of Modern Dream Research
This project analyzed the rise of the scientific study of dreams in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Within a new scientific culture of objectivi
Publications, Mayer, A. (2013). Sites of the Unconscious. Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press., Funding Institutions, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung
Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Archives
During the late Qing political and educational reforms (end of the ninteenth to the early twentieth century) traditional approaches to the collection,
Biological Diversity and Cultural Pluralism: The Changing Valuation of Complexity in Nature and Culture in Germany and the United States
This project investigated the changing valuation of complexity in nature and culture in Germany and the United States throughout the twentieth century
Mining the Sky: British Bird Observatories and Radar Ornithology, 1935-1965
Amateur and professional naturalists were enthralled by bird migration in the years following the Second World War. In Britain two "bird observatories
Thinking about Rows and Columns: On Tables, Writing Formats and the Making and Preserving of Knowledge in Western Astronomy
This project explored the epistemological significance of the “table” for Western astronomical practice over a period of two millennia. Most histories