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Kaveh Yazdani
Kaveh Yazdani was born in Tehran and raised in Paris and Berlin. He received his PhD degree from...
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Network Study of Scientific Knowledge in the Early Modern Period
This project investigates complex systems consisting of many interacting components that cannot be simply studied by analyzing the properties of their
PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949
China has become a major contributor to the world’s science today, with the largest number of qualified scientific publications in the world, a centra
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Animal Fibers, Commerce, and the Rise of New Analytical Techniques
In the first decades of the twentieth century, fiber materials from plants and animals were intensively studied with new analytical techniques, includ
Forgotten People in the Mongol Empire and the Ming Dynasty
In my book Khubilai Khan, published in 1988, I wrote that “Khubilai eliminated a discriminatory practice and altered the biases against occupational g
Luis A. Campos
Luis A. Campos received his PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2006, with ...
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Life as It Could Be: Synthetic Biology, Astrobiology, and the Future of Life
The history of synthetic biological efforts to re-engineer life on Earth has overlapped in provocative ways with efforts to understand how life might
Investigating the Human Psyche through Motor Skills: A History of Technical Psychological Testing
Since Antiquity, it has been debated whether the hand or the mind is what makes humans intelligent. My project, situated between the history of techno
Fanny Gribenski
Fanny Gribenski studied musicology and history at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, the Pari...
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Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux
Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux is Emeritus Research Director (Theater Studies) at the CNRS (INSHS,...
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