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Breeding Against Extinction: Knowledges and Practices of Species Conservation in Interwar Poland
Despite numerous episodes of captive reproduction for display and acclimatization purposes, systematic breeding for species conservation became the ce
Artifact and Tonality: Musical Instrument Makers as Invisible Technicians in Twentieth-Century South India
In India, musical instrument making has so far not been explored from the perspective of history of science and technology. From the historical docume
A New History of Medieval Science: Ideas, Objects, and Instruments in Europe and Islamdom, 800–1650
I will be working on chapters for a co-authored book, intended for an audience of students, historians of modern science, and lay readers, on medieval
Gina Surita
Gina Surita is a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. Her...
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Keith Knapp
Keith Knapp received his PhD in East Asian history from the University of California, Berkeley, ...
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Monique Nagel-Angermann
Monique Nagel-Angermann studied Sinology and Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Archaeology at t...
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Ian Patrick Gray
Ian Gray is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. His researc...
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Knowledge in Translation: Linnaeus and Other Knowledges
I will use my stay at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science to pursue two interrelated research projects. The first, in collaboration wi
Putting Knowledge to Practice: “Reading” Agricultural Terraces in Medieval Palestine
This project critically examines peasant knowledge and practice in land use in the medieval Levant through a combination of archaeological and textual
Visualizations of the Planets in the Graeco-Roman World (ca. 300 BCE-600 CE)
Using texts and images, this project explores the ways in which the planets were imagined and visually represented in the Graeco-Roman world in a diac