Aleksandra Kaye

Aleksandra Kaye is a historian of knowledge and science specialized in nineteenth-century Latin America and in the partitioned territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She conducted her doctoral research at the History Department, University College London. In her doctoral dissertation, she applied social network analysis methods to historical research and mapped Polish knowledge networks in nineteenth-century Latin America to understand the role migration has played in the production, transfer, and acceptance of scientific knowledge. In 2022, she was a Freer Prize fellow at the Royal Institution in London, and a year earlier, in 2021, an exchange scholar in Sociology at Yale University. Broadly, her work focuses on cross-cultural interactions, transnational migration, and circulation of scientific knowledge. Aleks’ current research project deals with how Polish migrants’ work on petroleum prospecting and later exploitation in Argentina was presented in Polish and Argentinian newspapers and periodicals and how that in turn affected broader scientific debates. At the MPIWG, she is affiliated with the Socio-epistemic Networks: Modelling Historical Knowledge Processes project in Department I.