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The Zhao Yu Tu (“map of the area of the mausoleum”), excavated in the late 1970s in Pingshan County, south-central Hebei Province. Hebei Provincial Museum at Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China.
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Researchers 2018-19
Visiting Scholar (30 Oct 2018-14 Dec 2018)
Menagerie: People and Wildlife in the American City
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-15 Sep 2018)
Dr., Associate Professor
Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports
Research Scholar, IT Architect (15 May 2017-31 Dec 2020)
MRes, MSc, MA, BSc
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Regents' Professor, School of International Letters & Cultures, Arizona State University
Wu Yün's "Rhapsody on the Darkling Gibbon" and its Daoist Contexts
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2017-31 Jul 2019)
PhD
Mapping the Arab City: Alexandria, Cairo and Tunis in the Early Modern Period
Research Scholar (Since Apr 2012)
PD Dr. habil.
Visualizations of the Heavens and Their Material Cultures in Eurasia and North Africa (4,000 BCE–1700 CE)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2019-31 Jul 2019)
PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
Roads and Localities: A Perspective from Local Gazetteers on Road Construction in Eighteenth-century China
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2019-14 Jul 2020)
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University
A Comparative Study on the Knowledge Structures of Local Gazetteers
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 May 2019)
PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Landscapes of Colony–Building in the North Atlantic: People, Plance, and Environment in Early Modern French Newfoundland
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Hidden Reserves in Socialist Planning: From Historical Consciousness to Science and Expertise
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-31 Jul 2019)
PhD
The Liver in Egypt: Productions of an Organ through 20th–Century Public Health and Political Economy
Visiting Scholar (Dec 2018-26 Dec 2018)
PhD, The Centre for Studies on China, Korea and Japan, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France
Chinese Maps Collected by the MPIWG
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, University College London
Wild Silk of West Africa: Towards an Indigenous Science of Materials
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-31 Dec 2018)
PhD, Senior Researcher, St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science
The Scientific and Cultural Phenomenon of European Bison in the 19th–Early 20th Century
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-28 Feb 2019)
PhD, Professor, CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Practicing Knowledge in Islamic Societies and their Neighbours
Visiting Scholar (Jun 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Professor, Deptartment of East Asian Studies and Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies, McGill University
The Filiality of Daughters in Imperial China: A Genealogical Study
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Jan 2019)
PhD candidate, University of Columbia
Agents of Violence: Naval Technology and Late Qing China in Global Arms Trade, 1875-1911
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Associate Professor, Aalto University
The uses and abuses of things: Reconceptualizing technology-in-use within the history of technology
Visiting Scholar (29 Jun 2018-6 Sep 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Medical Practice in 12th-Century China as Reflected in Medical Case Records
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2018-14 Dec 2018)
PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
The Art of Judgment in Wetlands
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2018-15 Sep 2018)
Doctoral Student
The Role of Maps in 19th-Century Plant Geography
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-19 Aug 2021)
PhD
"Understanding the Anthropocene": The Level of the Sea
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb 2019-15 Nov 2019)
PhD, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science & Technology, University of Manchester; Visiting Professor, Centre for History of Science, Technology & Medicine, Kings College, London
Rethinking the History of the Green Revolution
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2016-30 Jun 2019)
PhD
Interplay Between Society, Technology, and Nature in the Chinese-Korean Borderland from the Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-30 Sep 2021)
Mediterranean Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?
Visiting Scholar (Jun 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Professor of History of Science, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Cutting corners: How to Index a Chinese Book
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922
Visiting Scholar (14 Jun 2019-7 Jul 2019)
PhD, Assistant Professor Kyoto University, Hakubi Center / Institute for Research in Humanities, Japan
Cosmological nd Astral images in CenCosmological and Astral images in Central Asian Buddhist Paintingstral Asian Buddhist Paintings
Visiting Scholar (15 Sep 2018-22 Oct 2018)
PhD, History Department of Humanities, Northumbria University
Derek Ratcliffe, Raptors, and the History of Conservation Science
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (14 Jun 2019-15 Jul 2019)
Tangut Astrology
IT Developer (1 Oct 2018-30 Sep 2020)
Dr.
Sources for the Study of Chinese History
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-14 Dec 2018)
PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, The Cooper Union
Vegetable - Animal - Transformation
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Geographical Fragments from Early Medieval China: Local Gazetteers before Local Gazetteers
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-31 May 2020)
Ph.D., University of Maastricht
A Song for a Blue God: Essence, Embodiment, and Equity in Colour.
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2018-30 Sep 2018)
Dr. phil., Postdoc Researcher in the History of Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
A Quiet Revolution: Singapore as a Logistics City, 1848–1914
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 May 2019-31 Jul 2019)
PhD, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Tangut Horoscopy in Images, Objects, and Texts
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (May 2019-31 May 2019)
PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam
The Flow of Cognitive Goods: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Perspective on the History of Knowledge
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (6 Dec 2018-6 Jan 2019)
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Barren Structures: The Problem of Sterility in the Age of Plenty
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Insects as Knowledge Goods and Global Commodities: Hans Sauter's Formosa Collections
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, York University
Exotic Animals and Domestic Life during America's Long Sexual Revolution
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Research Fellow, Argentine National Council of Science (CONICET)
The Elk, the Tapir, their Hooves, and the Falling Sickness: A Story of Substitution, Trade, and Animal Medical Substances
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brown University
The Art of Judgement: Objects of Organization
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
A Transnational History of Mountaineering
Visiting Scholar (15 May 2019-14 Aug 2019)
PhD, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and History, Duke University
Purebred: Making Meat and Eugenics in the Modern United States
Visiting Scholar (10 Sep 2018-6 Jan 2019)
PhD, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics and Ethics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform Era China
Visiting Scholar (Apr 2019-30 Apr 2019)
PhD, Visiting Professor of East Asian Medicines, University of Westminster, London
Renaissance and Enlightenment in Seventeenth-Century China: The View From Medicine
Visiting Scholar (28 Oct 2018-27 Dec 2018)
Dr. rer.nat, Dr. phil.
Transcendent Experiences–Phenomena, Ideas, and Judgements
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Public Health, Modern Agriculture, and Wars Against Insect Enemies: Pest Control and the Making of Applied Entomology in Modern China, 1915-1960
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Oct 2018)
PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University
Curarized Animals and the Detached Body
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Oct 2018)
PhD, University of Leuven
Mineral Building Materials in China. Rediscovering the Built Environments in the Large Datasets of Difangzhi, 10th–20th Centuries
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-28 Feb 2019)
PhD, Professor, Zhejiang University, Department of History
Local Identity and State along the Grand Canal: Transforming Agrarian Societies in the Northern Grand Canal Region, 1289–1855
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2018-15 May 2020)
PhD
Different Culture, Different Climate? Seeking Cultural Differences in the Climate Knowledge and Ideas
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2021)
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
Visiting Scholar (15 Mar 2019-22 Jun 2019)
PhD, University Professorial Fellow, Charles Darwin University
Theory as "A Plan"—Asking about the Effects of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox in Analytic Work
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-14 Jan 2019)
Geological Knowledge and the Making of Modern East Asia: A Transnational History of Petroleum Explorations in Manchuria
Research Scholar (15 Mar 2018-12 Apr 2020)
PhD
Empire, Nature and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2020)
PhD, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
Economics as a Coordination Tool. Investment Planning in Électricité de France, from the Nationalisation (1946) to the 1970s
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-30 Jun 2019)
PhD, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
The Art of Judgement: Logistical Modernity—Flows, Forms, and Spaces