Biography I am pursuing a joint Ph.D. in History and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I study the social, intellectual, and institutional history of science in medieval and early modern Europe. My particular interests include the relationship between science and religion, the institutions and patronage that supported scientific work, and the role …
Biography Biography II work at the intersection of the history of the earth sciences and environmental history, with a focus on the politics of the deep past during the nineteenth century. My dissertation project examines Ireland’s peat bogs as sites of prehistory, objects of agricultural development schemes, and symbols of death and regeneration. I have …
Biography Biography My research focuses on the history of medicine, with particular emphasis on public health issues and the epistemic anxieties surrounding them in 19th and 20th-century India. I examine these dynamics within a comparative global framework, exploring how subaltern ideologies and economic disparities intersect in the convergence of traditional and Western medical practices. Education …
Biography Biography My research delves into histories of ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ boundaries between human and non-human beings. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from materials and methods across the history of science, disability, literature, culture, and belief. My work seeks to address why and how we have historically defined ‘humans’ and ‘animals’ as separate …
Biography Biography I am a historian of science and technology, interested broadly in the politics and practices of scientific data sharing in the 21st century. I am writing a dissertation on genomic data and data infrastructures in the social sciences in the U.S. and Europe after the Human Genome Project. Education M.A., UW–Madison (2022) M.S., …
Biography Biography I study the history of science and technology in the United States. My research interests include human-nonhuman interactions, the built environment, and material culture. Education M.A., University of Utah B.S., Georgia Tech Field
Biography JJ Strange is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and East Asia History programs at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is currently working on her dissertation project, tentatively titled “Defined by Molecules: Chemical discipline(s) and the reimagining of China’s botanical pharmacy 1900-1960,” which follows the creation and …
I am a historian of American medicine specializing in psychiatry and the sciences of the mind. I am especially interested in how reform projects, such as the early twentieth century mental hygiene movement, impact professional mental health care. My research considers how psychiatric concepts and categories take shape inextricable from the American socio-cultural landscape and …
Biography Biography I am a PhD candidate working on the history of fisheries science in modern China. I am interested in tracing the delineation of time through celestial movements, environmental changes, and evolutionary processes, and their imprints on human society. I received my BA in History and MS in History of Astronomy in China. Turning …
Biography Biography My work focuses on knowledge-shaping and the intersection of theory and practice in early modern pharmacy. My recent article investigates the 1547 inventory of French apothecary Rostand de Gréoux, using it as a starting point to examine the methodologies through which scholars understand pharmaceutical records. In questioning close readings and reconceptualizing comparisons, it …