PHD Program:
Dr. phil. in Kulturwissenschaften
Major Publications:
Books:
Thermodynamik als kultureller Kampfplatz. Eine Faszinationsgeschichte der Entropie 1850-1915, Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach 2006.
Medien-Theologie. Das Werk Vilém Flussers, Cologne/Weimar: Böhlau 1998.
essays and articles:
“Strategies of International Community-Building in Early 20th-century Metabolism Research: The Foreign Laboratory Visits of Francis Gano Benedict,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 43 (2013), 1-40.
“Kapitalistische Kalorien. Energie und Ernährungsökonomien um die Jahrhundertwende”, in Barbara Gronau (ed.), Szenarien der Energie. Zur Ästhetik und Wissenschaft des Immateriellen, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag 2012, 87-109.
“Eigenwillige Objekte und widerspenstige Dinge. Das Experimentieren mit Lebendigem in der Ernährungsphysiologie”, in Affektive Dinge. Objektberührungen in Wissenschaft und Kunst, Natascha Adamowsky, Robert Felfe, Marco Formisano, Georg Toepfer and Kirsten Wagner (eds.), Göttingen: Wallstein 2011, 51-79.
“Reading Instruments. Objects, Texts and Museums.” With Katherine Anderson, Melanie Frappier and Henry Trim, Science & Education (online 25 September 2011; print Vol. 22 (2013),.
“Asserting Medical Identities in mid-nineteenth-century provincial Ireland: The Case of the Water-Cure in Cork”, in Juliana Adelman and Eadaoin Agnew (eds.), Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2011, 32-47.
“‘The Benefits of a Mechanics’ Institute and the Blessing of Temperance.’ Science and Temperance in 1840s Ireland,” in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 22 (2008), 209-227.
“Science, Sociability and the Improvement of Ireland: The Galway Mechanics’ Institute, 1826-1851”, in: British Journal for the History of Science 39 (2006), 503-534.
“‘All Computation is one’. Der Große Programmierer, der Universalcomputer und die Auferstehung der Information,” in: Di Blasi, Luca (ed.): Cybermystik. Medien, Technik und Literatur, Munich: Wilhelm Fink 2006, 19-40.
Membership in Academic Societies:
History of Science Society
British Society for the History of Science
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
Society for the Social History of Medicine
Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Forum for the History of the Human Sciences
Courses Taught:
Making Modern Science (HIST 2P76)
History of Technology (HIST 3P81)
Science, Technology and Gender (HIST/WISE 4P48)
Western Science from Aristotle to Newton (HIST/LART 2P75)
Material Culture of Science and Technology (HIST 4P47)
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (HIST 4V49)
Approaches to the History of Science and Gender (HIST 5V61)
Historiography and Historical Methods (HIST 5F01)