.:Research

  • Dissertation: Measuring Difference – A Global History of Travelling Skulls

    • This project examines the practices of collecting and comparing skulls in the transition from the 18th to the 19th century in Europe and the USA and their influence on the construction of human ‘races’. In each case, the practices are examined in relation to their temporal specifics, such as the Enlightenment, colonialism, and slavery. Within comparative anatomy, the interactions of European expansion and colonialism with the emergence of modern European-North American racism are revealed. The question arises as to what (working) practices led to anthropological ‘race’ theories in comparative anatomy in Europe and North America in the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, and how did these interact with global dynamics and translocal entanglements?

    .:Research Interest



  • Comparative Anatomy in Europa/North America, 18th/19th century
  • Natural History, History of Knowledge/Science, Colonial History
  • Global History, Global Microhistory
  • Race Studies
  • Practice Theory, Praxeology
  • Practices of Comparing