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Colloquium | Dec 4, 2018 | 14:00 to 15:30
Women, Race, and Medicine: Black Midwives in Early 19th-century Ottoman Egypt
MoreHistory of Science ON CALL: Chelsea Szendi Schieder (in Japanese)
MoreHistory of Science ON CALL: Chelsea Szendi Schieder (in Japanese)
MoreThe Filiality of Daughters in Imperial China: A Genealogical Study
In my project, I intend to examine daughterly filiality as a discursive formation constructed between the medieval and late imperial period (5th-19th
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The Energetics of the “Muscle Machine”: From Isolated Muscle to Proteins, Fibers, and Filaments
My project examines the role that research on the mechanism of muscle contraction played in scientists’ efforts to understand biological energy transf
Mapping Epidemics: Public Health, and Scientific Practice in North African Port Cities, 1750–1950
Plague, cholera, and fevers, in their ability to wreak havoc on society, have disrupted the commercial and geopolitical fabric in port cities, yet the
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Useful Knowledge in a Global Perspective: Eighteenth-century Female “Improvers”
This project explored scientific practices during the eighteenth century, focused on a group of Spanish women (female “improvers”) who participated in
Between Natural Philosophy and Convention: Albert the Great’s Approach to an Empirical Anthropology
Albert the Great (1200–1280) is one of the earliest and most influential thirteenth-century thinkers to study human beings from the perspective of nat
Edna Bonhomme
Edna Bonhomme earned her PhD in History of Science at Princeton University. Her doctoral researc...
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Sara Nur Yildiz
I have worked on different aspects of the cultural, intellectual, religious, and political histo...
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