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Fusion of two images: "Dyers scraping stenciled fabrics," figure 235, Hommel & Mercer, China at Work 1937, and "Indian indigo-dye worker," photo A. Mamidipudi, 2017.
Dept. III
Artifacts, Action, Knowledge
Director Dagmar Schäfer
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Director
Services & Administration
Editorial Assistant (1 Oct 2020-30 Sep 2027)
Researchers 2020-21
Visiting Scholar (15 Dec 2020-30 Nov 2021)
Dr.
The Human Scaffold / Das menschliche Gerüst.
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2017-31 Dec 2020)
PhD
Mapping the Arab City: Alexandria, Cairo and Tunis in the Early Modern Period
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-30 Sep 2021)
Dr.
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 Sep 2020-1 Sep 2021)
School Library Book Collections in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2019-31 Dec 2021)
Dr.
Chinese maps collected by the MPIWG
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2020-31 Oct 2023)
An Interplay between Chinese Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine from the 18th to Early 20th Century
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-19 Aug 2021)
PhD
"Understanding the Anthropocene": The Level of the Sea
Visiting Scholar (4 Aug 2020-4 Dec 2020)
Frailties of the Green Revolution: On Transferring Agricultural Technology from Temperate to Tropical Zones
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2020-31 Aug 2021)
The Rhythms of War and Farming in Early Modern China and Korea
Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2020-14 Sep 2021)
PhD
Changes, Continuities, and Innovations in Music Theory and Musical Thought in Early Medieval China, 316–581 CE
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 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 2020-31 Dec 2020)
PhD
Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2016-31 Dec 2023)
PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Abt. III im Projekt: "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens: Image Database Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE-1700 CE)"
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2020-31 Aug 2021)
Comparative Ancient Medicine
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2020-31 Dec 2020)
Role of the Animals in Bohai and Jurchen Societies (on the Base of Studies of the Archeological Materials from Medieval Sites in the Russian Far East)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2020-31 Dec 2020)
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond IP
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2020-28 Feb 2021)
Meat Consumption and Breeding of Cows in Late-Nineteenth Century Japan
Visiting Scholar (15 Aug 2020-14 Feb 2021)
Colouring Maps in East Asia
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Dec 2020-31 Jan 2021)
Dr.
Analysis of Pre-Modern Maps of East Asia: Methods and Approaches
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2020-31 Oct 2021)
Dr.
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond IP
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2020-31 Aug 2023)
Agricultural Uses of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-28 Feb 2023)
PhD
Barren Structures: The Problem of Sterility in the Age of Plenty
Predoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2017-30 Jun 2021)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Insects as Knowledge Goods and Global Commodities: Hans Sauter's Formosa Collections
Visiting Scholar (24 Aug 2020-30 Jun 2021)
Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Jul 2021)
PhD
Vertical World: Politics, Nature and Climbing in the Twentieth Century
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2021-30 Jun 2023)
The Mongols and Mamluk Agricultural Manuals (kutub al-filāḥa)? Understanding the Circulation of Agricultural Knowledge between East and West Asia
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2020-31 Aug 2021)
Working Lives in the Early Ming
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Aug 2021)
PhD
From Hispaniola to Istanbul: Plants, Trade, and Knowledge Between the Americas and the Early Modern Ottoman World
Rathenau Senior Fellow (1 Feb 2019-31 Dec 2024)
Dr.
History of mathematics and physics (nineteenth and twentieth century), history of technology
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2020-30 Jun 2021)
The Natural Sciences in Morocco in the 17th-18th Century
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2018-31 Oct 2023)
PhD
Chinese climate knowledge in local agricultural practice: a study on Yueling and Qihou discourse in agriculture books and local gazetteers
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2021)
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
Postdoctoral Fellow (9 Sep 2019-31 Dec 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?
Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2020-30 Jun 2021)
Collecting Ears: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in Early Modern Europe
Research Officer (15 May 2017-31 Dec 2027)
Research Officer / Wissenschaftlicher Referent in Abt. III
Research Scholar (1 Nov 2020-31 Oct 2021)
Research Fellow (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2023)
Dr.
Reaping the Benefits of Water - The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China.
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2020-31 May 2021)
Dr.
A Study on the Commercial General Maps in the Late Qing Dynasty
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2020-31 Aug 2021)
Computer-aided Approaches to Study of the Japanese Buddhist World Maps of the 14th to 19th Century
Postdoctoral Fellow (16 Nov 2020-15 Nov 2023)
PhD
Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2020-31 Aug 2021)
Zhu Yuanzhang and the Nanjing City Wall
IT Architect (20 Mar 2017-19 Mar 2025)
IT-Architekt im Projekt Household Encyclopedia