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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.
Director
Director (Since Apr 2013)
Dr., Professor, TU Berlin, FU Berlin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Histories of Planning
Services & Administration
Researchers 2017-18
Visiting Scholar (May 2018-31 May 2018)
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 2017-14 May 2019)
MRes, MSc, MA, BSc
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2018-30 Jun 2018)
PhD, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
History of Medicine and Science in China, 1500-1800; Materiality of Knowledge as Presented in Ming-Qing Local Gazetteers. A Social History of Medical Recipes in Early Modern China
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)
Postdoctoral Fellow (14 Aug 2017-31 Oct 2017)
PhD
Privileged Knowledge. The Politics of Print in the Early Dutch Republic
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2018-31 Jul 2018)
The Changing Cosmology and Knowledge of the Tiger lands in Buddhist Asia
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Aug 2018)
PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College
In Search of Unknown Craftsmen: Trade, Tribute, and the Invention of Bingata
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)
MA, Doctoral Student, Universität Heidelberg
Nutritional Filth: Agricultural Uses of Animal Waste in Late Imperial China
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2018-31 May 2018)
PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Perfecting Nature: A History of Science, Animals, and Spanish Empire
Visiting Scholar (2 Jun 2018-31 Jul 2018)
PhD. Associate Professor
Chinese Local Gazetteers Project and School Library Book Collections
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2018-15 Aug 2018)
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Capturing Knowledge—Captivity, Trafficking, and Knowledge Acquistion in Early Modern China
Visiting Scholar (Jul 2018-28 Jul 2018)
Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
The Filiality of Daughters in Imperial China: A Genealogical Study
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2017-23 Dec 2017)
PhD, Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Biodiversity Preservation in International Agricultural Research
Visiting Scholar (Jul 2018-14 Jul 2018)
Visiting Scholar (29 Jun 2018-6 Sep 2018)
Ph.D., 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 (1 Mar 2018-30 Apr 2018)
PhD, Azrieli Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University
A Million Horses: The Geography and Economy of Frontier Horse Ranches in Early Ming China
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2018-15 Sep 2018)
Doctoral student
The role of maps in 19th century plant geography
Visiting Scholar (Jul 2018-14 Jul 2018)
PhD, Professor of History, New Mexico State University
Tu (圖) in Local Gazetteers
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Aug 2018)
PhD
"Understanding the Anthropocene": The Level of the Sea
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2018-10 Dec 2018)
PhD, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science & Technology, University of Manchester; Visiting Professor, Centre for History of Science, Technology & Medicine, Kings College, London
Could the social consequences of the Green Revolution have been anticipated?
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
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2018-14 Sep 2020)
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2017-30 Sep 2017)
PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation
Visiting Scholar (1 Apr 2018-31 Aug 2018)
The Sciences of Sinography
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2017-28 Feb 2018)
PhD
Colonial Ears: Noise, Acoustics, and Hearing Bodies in Colonial Taiwan
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922
Visiting Scholar (Jun 2018-30 Jun 2018)
Professor
1. Studies on the Cultural History of the Chinese Translation of the Jihe yuanbe 2. Communication and Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge along the Silk Road
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2018-10 Jun 2018)
PhD, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, ollege of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA
The Islamic Near East Collection at the Library of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Visiting Scholar (3 May 2018-2 Aug 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of History and the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, USA
Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Visiting Scholar (7 Jan 2018-7 Feb 2018)
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-14 Dec 2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Geographical Fragments from Early Medieval China: Local Gazetteers before Local Gazetteers
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Dec 2017-15 Aug 2018)
Astrology and Astronomy in Liao-Yuan China and Inner Asia
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (20 Jun 2018-15 Jul 2018)
PhD
Famine, Science and the Aesthetics of Planning in Modern India
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Jan 2019)
PhD candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Adopted by the World: China and the Rise of Global Intimacy
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 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)
PhD, Professor of Global History and Culture, University of Warwick
Cultures of Innovation in Global History
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb 2018-14 Apr 2018)
PhD, Professor of Long Term Development of Science and Technology, University of Twente
Technologies in Use, 1760-1840: Toward a Historical and Historiographical Frame
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
A Transnational History of Mountaineering
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2018-15 Sep 2018)
Dr. med., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports Im Rahmen der Working Group The Body of Animals
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)
Experts of Memory: Chanting as a Method and Verification of Learning in Tang Dynasty China
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 Scholar (1 Jun 2018-31 Jul 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor
Baselining Pollution: Producing “Natural Soil” for Environmental Regulation in Chile
Visiting Scholar (15 Jan 2018-30 Jun 2018)
PhD, Advanced Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago
Guildhalls as Hybrid Socio-religious Spaces and as Part of a Network of Religious Spaces
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (18 Jul 2017-17 Jul 2018)
PhD
Narratives of Transformation: The Globalization of Indigenous Knowledge
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2018-31 Aug 2018)
PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
Empire of Ice: Science, Nature, and the Economy of Cold
Visiting Scholar (Jul 2018-14 Jul 2018)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2017-30 Jun 2018)
MA, Doctoral Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Role of Astronomers and Physicians as Agents of Scientific and Medical Exchange in the Mongol Eurasia
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
Economics as a Coordination Tool. Investment Planning in Électricité de France, from the Nationalisation (1946) to the 1970s
Visiting Scholar (15 Aug 2017-30 Sep 2017)
Prof. Dr. rer. oec. habil., Professor of the History of Technology, Technische Universität München (TUM)
Fighting Uncertainty and Promising Safety—Practices of Evidence for Technical Safety in Twentieth Century Engineering
Visiting Scholar (Jul 2018-14 Jul 2018)
PhD
Gazetteer Maps of the Qing Dynasty
Visiting Scholar (6 Jun 2018-31 Jul 2018)
The Changing Cosmology and Knowledge of the Tiger lands in Buddhist Asia
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-30 Jun 2019)
Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
The Art of Judgement: Logistical Modernity — Flows, Forms, and Spaces