Notes on Contributors
Massimiliano Badino is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Verona. He was recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (FP7, 2014–2017). He wrote extensively on the early history of statistical mechanics and quantum physics. His research interests include history and philosophy of contemporary physics as well as the intersection between ethics, politics, and epistemology.
Javier Balsa is professor in Political Sociology at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), and Independent Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. He is currently the Chair of the IESAC (Instituto de Economía y Sociedad en la Argentina Contemporánea) at the UNQ. His research focuses in the theory of hegemony and the development of methodologies for it.
Lino Camprubí (PhD UCLA, 2011) is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Universidad de Sevilla and has worked at Cornell, the University of Chicago, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). He has authored Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime (MIT Press, 2014) and Los ingenieros de Franco (Crítica, 2017), recipient of the ICOHTEC 2018 Book Prize. He has also co-edited Technology and Globalization (Palgrave Economic History Series, 2018), De la Guerra Fría al calentamiento global (Catarata, 2018) and the special issue “Experiencing the Global Environment” (SHPS, 2018). He has published in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Technology and Culture, Energy Policy and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
Ana Carneiro is associate professor of History of Science at NOVA School of Science and Technology, and researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT). Her research has focused mainly on the history of the nineteenth-century sciences, especially in Portugal, and is published in various specialised journals and books. She is former editor of HoST–Journal of History of Science and Technology (2012–2017) and president of HESS – History of the Earth Sciences Society (2015 and 2016).
Riccardo Ciavolella (1979) is a Political Anthropologist. He is a researcher of the French CNRS and a member of the Institut interdisplinaire d’ anthropologie du Contemporain at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His ethnographic work explores politics in the margins of globalisation and the State in Europe and Africa. Form a theoretical point of view, his contributions to the history of anthropological ideas and critical social theory focus on the legacy of Gramscian theories and on the anthropological inspirations of radical imaginations. He currently coordinates an international partnership between Italian and French institutions about the ideas and legacies of Gramsci and Ernesto de Martino. He is the author of several ethnographic articles and monographs (Karthala 2010), manuals (De Boeck 2016) and theoretical essays (Mimesis 2013). He has recently published L’etnologo e il popolo di questo mondo, a historiographical essay (Meltemi 2018), together with a novel (Mimesis 2018), on the involvement of de Martino in Italian Resistance, now translated into French (Editions Mimesis 2020).
Roger Cooter is a cultural historian of science and medicine. He has authored and edited over 20 books on subjects ranging from phrenology to orthopaedics, war, childhood, and historiography. Besides serving as the General Editor for Bloomsbury’s forthcoming 6 volumes on The Cultural History of Medicine he has just completed The Man Who Ate His Cats, a biography of the eccentric Pierre Henri Joseph Baume. Now retired from University College London, he lives in Berlin.
Alina-Sandra Cucu is a historical anthropologist of labour. Her first book, Planning Labour: Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania was published in 2019 by Berghahn Books. At the moment, she is affiliated with the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, as the beneficiary of a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral grant, funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 frame. The grant allows her to work on her second book, Entangled Worlds of Labour: The Advance of Flexible Capitalism in Romania.
Maria Paula Diogo is full professor of History of Technology at NOVA School of Science and Technology and researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT). Her recent research interests intersect history of colonial technology and engineering, globalization and the Anthropocene. In this context, she co-authored the book Europeans Globalizing. Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging (Palgrave, 2016) and co-edited Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2019). She was awarded the 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the highest recognition from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
Isabel Jiménez-Lucena is a senior lecturer on History of Science at the University of Málaga (Spain). She researches in the fiel of social history of medicine in the 20th century, focusing on health, medicine, class and gender. She is currently working on biopolitics and technologies of gender in Spain.
Annelies Lannoy (°1984) is invited lecturer in religious studies at Ghent University. Her research focuses on the history of the academic study of religion in 19th and 20th century Europe. Specializing in the study of scientific correspondence, she has been carrying out research on the making of history of religions as an academic discipline, and on scientific networks in knowledge production on ancient religions. She co-authored and co-edited “Mon cher Mithra.” La Correspondance entre Franz Cumont et Alfred Loisy, Mémoires de l’ Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Paris, 2019) with C. Bonnet & D. Praet, and authored Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions (De Gruyter, 2020).
Luís Miguel Carolino is a professor at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal, where he teaches courses on the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, with an emphasis on the history of science. Before joining the History Department at ISCTE-IUL, he held research positions at Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy, Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses on the social, institutional, and cultural relations of science, areas in which he has published extensively.
Jorge Molero-Mesa is a senior lecturer on History of Science and researcher of the Centre for the History of Science (CEHIC) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He researches in the field of the social history of medicine in the contemporary period. He is the author of publications on the history of social diseases (tuberculosis, malaria), Spanish health policy and administration, Spanish colonial medicine in Morocco and the relationships between medicine and society from a class and gender perspective.
Agustí Nieto-Galan is full professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), ICREA Acadèmia Fellow (2009 & 2018), and former Director of the Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC) at the UAB. Following degrees in both chemistry and history, he took his PhD in the History of Science at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and held postdoctoral positions in the Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, and the CNRS, in Paris. He has written widely on topics such as history of chemistry, history of science popularization, urban history of science, and science and power (18th–20th centuries). His last book is The Politics of Chemistry (Cambridge, 2019).
Pietro Daniel Omodeo is Professor of Historical Epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy; Principal Investigator of the ERC project EarlyModernCosmology (Horizon 2020, GA 725883) and the FARE project EarlyGeoPraxis (grant of the Italian Ministry of University and Research). He is the author of Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (Springer, 2019).
Matteo Realdi is a historian of astronomy. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova (Italy), the Center for the History of Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), and the Institute for History and Social Aspects of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). His research focuses on the history of relativistic cosmology and the history of astronomical observatories in the twentieth century.
Jaume Sastre-Juan is Serra Húnter Fellow at the Center for the History of Science (CEHIC) and the Department of Philosophy of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His main overarching research interest is the intersection between politics and the popularization of science and technology. In particular, he has published on the politics of display in museums of science and technology, and on technological fun in amusement parks and ‘interactive’ museums. He is currently working on the history of international science popularization policies. He has also taught at the Universitat de Barcelona, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universidade de Lisboa, where he was postdoc researcher at the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT).
Arne Schirrmacher is a historian of science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where his research focuses on European cultures of knowledge and science since the 19th century. In addition he teaches in the program of Theory and History of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin. As a Heisenberg Fellow, he is currently involved both in projects on the history of modern quantum physics and the political, material and media history of the science museum in the 20th century. Recent publication include ‘Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen: David Hilbert, Peter Debye and Max Born in Context, 1900–1926’ (2019) and ‘Architectures of Science: Berlin Universities and their Development in Urban Space’ (ed. with M. Wienigk, 2019).
Ana Simões is full professor of History of Science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT). She was President of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) (2018–2020). Her research interests include history of the physical sciences (18th–20th centuries), mostly in Portugal in its multiple European and global entanglements, with recent incursions on urban history of science and the Anthropocene. Latest book publications include as co-editor Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2019), and as co-author the essay/graphic novel Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse. Travel Impressions (Chili com Carne, 2019).
Carlos Tabernero is an associate professor of History of Science at the Institute of History of Science (formerly Centre for the History of Science – CEHIC) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). His research and teaching focus on the media and the production, communication and management of scientific knowledge. He is currently working on processes of construction and circulation of natural history knowledge, specifically concerning urban narratives about nature in relation to cinema, television and literature in the 20th century.
Carlos Ziller Camenietzki is professor in Modern History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses on Iberian intellectual history and the Jesuits Astronomers in the seventeenth century. His most recent book deals with the debate on terrestrial paradise of the Jesuits and the political confrontation about the Portuguese independence war of the years 1640–1668. His current research encompass the development of tidal theories in the 16th and 17th centuries.