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Dept. III
Artifacts, Action, Knowledge
Director Dagmar Schäfer
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Director
Services & Administration
Research Officer (1 Feb 2022-31 Dec 2027)
Research Officer / Wissenschaftliche Referentin in Abt. III
Editorial Assistant (1 Oct 2020-30 Sep 2027)
Leadership Group
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2025)
Dr.
Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
Research Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2024)
Dr.
Reaping the Benefits of Water - The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China.
Research Scholar (16 Nov 2020-15 Nov 2023)
Dr.
Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire
Researchers
Digital Content Curator (15 Sep 2022-14 Sep 2024)
Digital Content Curator Working Group 'Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens' in Abt. III
Visiting Scholar (2 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2025)
Prof. Dr.
Itineraries of Astral Imagery and Their Economic Contexts Between 500 BCE and 1500 CE
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2025)
Dr.
Postdoctoral Fellow Abt. III - working group "Proteins and Fibers": "Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber"
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2020-31 Oct 2023)
An Interplay between Chinese Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine from the 18th to Early 20th Century
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2023-31 Jul 2024)
Fabricating Modern Fibers: Metaphors, Models, and Artifacts in Molecular Biology, 1920-1958
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-29 Feb 2024)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (20 Aug 2023-15 Nov 2023)
Visiting Scholar (15 May 2023-15 Oct 2023)
Professor
Colonialism and Development Studies: A Problematic Relation
Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2021-30 Apr 2024)
Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2016-31 Dec 2023)
PhD
Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens: Image Database Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE–1700 CE)
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2024)
Dr.
Chinese Theories, Korean Praxis, and Making the Most out of Nature: Cross-Border Science-Making in the Sinosphere
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2022-31 Oct 2023)
Prof. Dr.
The Nile and its Major Projects during the Mamluk Period im Rahmen der Working Group: Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100-1700) in Abt. III
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2020-31 Oct 2024)
Dr.
Epistemologies of craft: The role of material innovation in making colour expertise
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2025)
Dr.
Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2022-28 Feb 2025)
Dr.
A history of ‘Making Things’ in West Africa, 1920-1980: creating meaning making and experience
Postdoctoral Fellow (7 Sep 2021-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
Civilisation and Human/Animal Division in Russian Nineteenth-Century Medical Topographies and Ethnographic Accounts
Affiliated Scholar (1 Jan 2021-31 Dec 2023)
Prof.
Rethinking East Asian Medicines, 1100 to the present.
Research Scholar (1 Apr 2019-31 Dec 2023)
Dr. med.
Comparative Epistemology and the History of Clinical Research
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2022-1 Nov 2023)
Dr.
Transzendente Erfahrungen - Phänomene, Ideen und Urteile
Rathenau Senior Fellow (1 Feb 2019-31 Dec 2024)
Dr.
History of Mathematics and Physics (Nineteenth and Twentieth Century), History of Technology
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
Research Scholar
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2025)
The Strange as Knowledge: Collections of the Anomalous and Marvellous within Late-Imperial Leishu (1600-1900)
Research Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2024)
Dr.
Reaping the Benefits of Water - The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China.
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2023-30 Apr 2023)
Prof. Dr.
The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road
Research Scholar (16 Nov 2020-15 Nov 2023)
Dr.
Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire
IT Architect (20 Mar 2017-19 Mar 2025)
IT-Architekt im Projekt Household Encyclopedia