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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.
Dept. III
Artifacts, Action, Knowledge
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Researchers 2018-19
Artist in Residence (1 Sep 2019-31 Oct 2019)
Out of Place out of Time: Film Project
Research Scholar, IT Architect (15 May 2017-31 Dec 2020)
MRes, MSc, MA, BSc
Research IT
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2017-31 Jul 2020)
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 Scholar (1 Sep 2019-31 Dec 2019)
Professor of Chinese History and Republic of China Chair, University of British Columbia
A Price History of Ming China
Visiting Student (16 Sep 2019-13 Dec 2019)
Do the Machines Speak? Looking for a New Way of Understanding Animals in Historical Discourse
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Mediterranean Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, The Centre for Studies on China, Korea and Japan, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France
Chinese Maps Collected by the MPIWG: Geo-Referencing and New Acquisitions
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)
PhD Candidate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Meat, Cattle, and a Capital City: Slaughterhouses, Animals, and Meat Production in Rio de Janeiro during the Last Years of the Brazilian Empire
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)
Doctoral Student, Sydney University
Nature and Nation: Documentation and the Practice of "Natural History" at the Australian Museum, 1840–1890
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
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
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2018-14 Sep 2020)
PhD
Changes, Continuities, and Innovations in Music Theory and Musical Thought in Early Medieval China, 316-581 CE
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2018-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Mediterranean Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Biology for the Nation: The International Biological Program in South Korea and Taiwan during the Cold War Era, 1961-1975
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922
Visiting Scholar (23 Sep 2019-31 Oct 2019)
Dr., MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
Coloured Maps from East Asia from the Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg: A Study of a Chinese Scroll Map entitled Tianxia yutu
IT Developer (1 Oct 2018-30 Sep 2020)
Dr.
Sources for the Study of Chinese History
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2019-30 Nov 2019)
Chinese Local Geography before Local Gazetteers
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-31 May 2020)
PhD, University of Maastricht
A Song for a Blue God: Essence, Embodiment, and Equity in Colour.
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2019-31 May 2020)
PhD, Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society MIT, USA
African Chemistry: Science with an African Totem
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
The Global History of the Swing
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-26 Feb 2020)
PhD
Barren Structures: The Problem of Sterility in the Age of Plenty
Predoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2017-14 Nov 2019)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Insects as Knowledge Goods and Global Commodities: Hans Sauter's Formosa Collections
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-31 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 Postdoctoral Fellow (4 Oct 2019-29 Nov 2019)
Empires of Knowledge: Colonial Patent Systems in the Atlantic World during the Industrial Age
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
A Transnational History of Mountaineering
Artist in Residence (1 Sep 2019-30 Jun 2020)
Informing Ethical Engineering—Mobilizing Histories of Science toward Ethical Material Choices
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)
PhD Candidate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
A History of Electrification in India: 1890s–1980s
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Public Health, Modern Agriculture, and Wars Against Insect Enemies: Pest Control and the Making of Applied Entomology in Modern China, 1915-1960
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Early Histories of Plants from the Americas in the Early Modern Ottoman World
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2018-15 May 2020)
PhD
Different Culture, Different Climate? Seeking Cultural Cifferences in the Climate Knowledge and Ideas
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2021)
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
Postdoctoral Fellow (9 Sep 2019-8 Sep 2020)
PhD
DFG-Project: Mediterranean and Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?
Visiting Scholar (14 Jun 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, University Professorial Fellow, Charles Darwin University
Theory as "A Plan"—Asking about the Effects of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox in Analytic Work
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2020)
PhD candidate, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University
Reaping the Benefits of Water—The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2019-31 Dec 2019)
MA, Doctoral Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Patronage, Politics and Astral Sciences in the Mongol Empire (1206-1368)
Visiting Scholar (21 Mar 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Professor, Department of History, Research Institute for Pre-modern Chinese History Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
The Chang of Chinese Traditional General Maps: A Study on Two General Maps of the Late Qing Empire
Research Scholar (15 Mar 2018-12 Apr 2020)
PhD
Empire, Nature and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800