Doctoral Students of the IMPRS
Cohort 2026
Alejandra Borea de la PortillaListening to Breakdown: Infrastructural Disruption and the Public Perception of Danger in Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict (1980–2000)
Epistemologies of Alienation: Detours of Gestalt Theory through Exile and Resistance (1930–1960)
Flexibilization through Work from Home? History of Telework in (West) Germany and France, 1960–present
Experiments Under Pressure: Chinese Materia Medica and the Making of Modern Pharmacology in China, 1920s–1970s
Cohort 2023
Leonie BöttigerTracing an Epistemic Genre: Premodern Arabic Recipe Collections as Resources of Knowledge
Women in Nineteenth-Century British and American Astronomical Fieldwork
Nitrocellulose: A Material History of the Humanities
Beyond Leaves: Cultivating Knowledge in Books of Hours
Agrochemical Transformations and their Knowledge Resources in Egypt, 1882–1952
Contestation of Knowledge in the Collection and Exhibition of Indigenous Objects by Catholic Mission Museums
Cohort 2024
PO-YUAN CHENGMeasuring and Calculating: Lisuan Knowledge During the Qing Dynasty's Anti-Western Policies, 1736–1840
Crowded Isolation: Access, Obscurity, and the Local Contingencies of Satellite Earth Stations, 1960–2009
Squeezing Knowledge out of Rocks: The Politics of Paper Squeezes in Nineteenth-Century Sabaean Studies
Of Types and Stones: A Media History of Knowledge on Spatial Deviation
Becoming Bonobo: On Modeling a Species
Cohort 2022
JAKOB KAABY HELLSTENIUSIgnorance in the Age of Text: Forbidden Knowledge Among Common Readers in 18th and 19th Century Britain
Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian
Politiken der Erfassung von Musik. Apparative Analyseverfahren in der musikethnologischen Forschung, 1900–1970
"Usual Suspects" in "Unusual Locations". Infrastructure, Maintenance and Expertise in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1855–1923
Science Before Nature: An Epistemology of Perspectives in the Commentaries of Cuneiform Scholarly Traditions
Colorful Encounters: Nature, Science, and Dyes between Europe and China, 1880–1950