Ongoing Research

Bücherstilleben - Schule von Madrid - 1630-40 - Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

  

 

I.  

Nurseries of Progress: Classical Philology and the Research Seminar in Germany, 1700-1870

 

(First monograph) 

Based on the dissertation “Philology as a Way of Knowing”

 

 

II.

Capturing the Stars: Gender, Science, and Labor at Yerkes Observatory, 1895–1950

 

 

(Second monograph) 

Being researched and written as part of the Capturing the Stars Research Group (University of Chicago)

 

University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf6-00415, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Image modified by Richard Kron.
Wall of Artifacts in the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale)



III. 

The Turn to Comparison: A New History of the Human Sciences in Germany, 1800-1950


(Funded from September 2025!)

More information about all projects coming soon.