Current Visiting Scholars and Post-Docs


Peter Alagona
  Peter Alagona, a local independent scholar, is here from September 2006 to September 2008.
Area of Research: History of endangered species conservation in California.

Kristin Becker
  Kristin Becker, from the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft/Department of Theatre Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Mainz, Germany, is here from January to May 2008.
Area of Research: History of science and theater.

Maria Elvira Callapez
  Maria Elvira Callapez, from the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal, is here from October 2006 to October 2009.
Area of Research: Aspects of the American polymer industry: plastics and synthetic fibers in the 1960s.

Nahum Chandler
  Nahum Chandler, originally from California but currently based in Tokyo, Japan, is here from April 2008 to August 2008.
Area of Research: History of science and anthropology.

Patrick Coffey
  Patrick Coffey, an independent scholar from Berkeley, CA, is here from December 1, 2005 to December 1, 2008.
Area of Research: A biography of Gilbert Newton Lewis, one of America's greatest chemists, who came to UCB in 1912 as Dean of the College of Chemistry and died in his laboratory in 1946.

Erica Dirkse
  Erica Dirkse, a graduate student from the University of Minnesota, is here from June 2004 to August 2008.
Areas of Research: History of the earth sciences, 18th and 19th centuries, history of economic thought/economic history, Europe (concentration: German-speaking regions and Russia).

Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
  Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, an independent scholar from Oakland, CA, is here from September 2002 to September 2008.
Area of Research: Early U.S. cabinets and museums, collection formation and the construction of racialized identities.

Elihu Gerson
  Elihu Gerson, from the Tremont Research Institute, is here from January 2007 to December 2008.
Areas of Research: Social organization of scientific knowledge, especially evolutionary biology and natural history.

Marita Hübner
  Marita Hübner is here, sponsored on a Mellon Foundation grant, from May 2007 to December 2010.
Area of Research: Parallels and intersections between the historical and natural sciences in learned societies in the eighteenth century; science and religion; Jean André Deluc (1727-1817).

Merav Katz-Kimchi
  Merav Katz-Kimchi, from Bar Ilan University, Israel, is here from August 2007 to August 2009.
Area of Research: Social and cultural history of communication technologies, popularization of science, representations of science in popular culture.

Sungkeen Kim
  Sungkeen Kim, from The Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, England, is here from May 2008 to October 2009.
Area of Research:The history of East Asian science with a focus on the intersection of Neo-Confucianism and the history of science in the 19th century.

Monica Libell
  Monica Libell, originally from Sweden, is here from June 2007 to June 2008.
Area of Research: Theory and methodology of medicine in the 19th
century, dehumanization and the idea of "man", i.e. what constitutes a human being culturally, biologically, politically and how have humans been deprived of their value.

Natalia Lozovsky
  Natalia Lozovsky, a local independent scholar, is here from February 2006 to February 2010.
Area of Research: Geo-ethnography and geometry in the
Middle Ages; medieval education.

Takashi Nishiyama
  Takashi Nishiyama, Deputy Director of the Nuclear Safety Commission of
Japan, is here from April 2007 to March 2008.
Area of Research: Stakeholder involvement in the decision-making process of science and technology, nuclear energy research and development.

William Storage
  William Storage, a local independent scholar, is here from September 2006 to August 2008.
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Chen Zhenghong
  Chen Zhenghong, from Beijing, China, is here from October 2007 to September 2008.
Area of Research: The history of Chinese large aircraft development.