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Geschichte der Wissenschaften. Ein Blick in die Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Wissenschaft
MoreEuropean Conceptions of the “New Man,” 1880–1930
Stefanos Geroulanos' project focused on European intellectual and cultural history, a broad study of the trope of a “New Man”—the fantasy of a regener
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
This Working Group explored how paper—as material, meaning, and object—functioned as an epistemic material bridging quotidian and scholarly knowl
Beyond the Academy: Histories of Gender and Knowledge
This Working Group explored the intersections of gender and science. Its focus was contexts other than accredited institutions, state-sponsored univer
Frederike van Uildriks (1854–1919). New Woman, Universal Savant and Popular Scientist in the Netherlands
This project focused on Frederike van Uildriks as the author of an enormous and varied output of books and articles, literary reviews, comments, and f
Amateurs by Choice: Women and the Pursuit of Independent Scholarship in Twentieth-Century Historical Writing
The notable presence of independent scholars among women historians of the first half of the twentieth century is a phenomenon to be found in Anglopho
Publications, Pomata, G., Amateurs by Choice: Women and the Pursuit of Independent Scholarship in 20th Century Historical Writing, Centaurus (55, 2013), 196–219
Gendered and Ethnic Knowledge: Mrs. JMC Kloppenburg-Versteegh (1862–1948), an Example from the Dutch East Indies around 1900
Liesbeth Hesselink's project inspected domestic practices of recipe collecting and the transfer of medical knowledge in the colonial setting of the Du
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
Publications
Kohlstedt, S., Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role in Reframing North American Museums, 1880-1930, Centaurus (52, 2013), 153–174
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
"Health, Vigor, and Vitality within Reach of All": Radium Emanations and Male Sexual Debilities in 20th-Century America
Maria Rentetzi’s paper focused on the early twentieth-century American marketplace, where radium emanations were traded as medical remedies for male d