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Name
Ms JProf.in Dr. Dorit Brixius
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Research and teaching topics
- Plant knowledge in historical perspective
- Global history of knowledge
- (Colonial) acclimatization gardens
- Botanical networks
- History of medicine (early modern period)
- History Saxon gardens
Professional career and training
Since July 1, 2024 | Assistant Professor of History of Botany and Horticulture |
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October 2023 - June 2024 | Research Associate at the Department of Law at the University of Bonn |
June 2021 - September 2023 | Parental leave |
September 2019 - November 2022 | Research Associate at the German Historical Institute Paris |
October 2017 - February 2019 | Post-doctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris |
April - September 2016 | Erasmus stay at the EHESS Paris/Centre Alexandre-Koyré |
October - December 2015 | Visiting doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge (HPS) |
September 2015 | Visiting PhD student at the MPIWG Berlin, Department II: Daston |
September 2013 - September 2017 | Doctoral student at the European University Institute Florence |
April - June 2013 | Doctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris |
October 2012 - March 2013 | World trip |
October 2010 - September 2012 | MA studies in Early Modern History at the University of Potsdam |
September 2009 - March 2010 | Erasmus stay at Wesminster University London |
October 2007 - September 2010 | BE studies English and History (Teaching Qualification) at the University of Potsdam |
Publications
14 Entries
2024
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Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific , 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph
2021
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Networks of knowledge in the Indo-Pacific, 1600–1800 , 6 Jul 2021, Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire. Goss, A. (ed.). New York: Routledge, p. 124-137, 14 p.Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
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Die Pariser Karriere des Arztes Noël Vallant zwischen Vertrauensbildung und ärztlicher Praxis im Grand Siècle , 2021, In: Innsbrucker Historische Studien . 33, p. 189–209Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
2020
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From ethnobotany to emancipation: Slaves, plant knowledge, and gardens on eighteenth-century Isle de France , 2020, In: History of Science. 58, 1, p. 51–75Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Worlds of Natural History, by Helen A. Curry, Nicholas Jardine, James A. Secord and Emma Spary (eds.) , 2020, In: Nuncius : annali di storia della scienza. 35, 1, p. 178–189Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Book/Film review (Recension)
2019
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La production du savoir botanique sur le terrain : Les défis d'acclimatation de la noix de muscade sur l'île Maurice (1748-1783) , 2019, In: Francia : Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte. 46, p. 301-317Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Mark Häberlein/Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein, Adalbert Friedrich Markus (1753-1816). Ein Bamberger Arzt zwischen aufgeklärter Reformen und romantischer Medizin, Würzburg: Ergon, 2016 , 2019, In: Historische Zeitschrift. 308, 1, p. 207-208Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Book/Film review (Recension)
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Raphaële Garrod/Paul J. Smith, eds., Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, Leiden: Brill, 2018 , 2019, In: Isis. 111, 2, p. 391-392Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
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Renan Larue, Le Végétarisme des Lumières. L’abstinence de viande dans la France du XVIIIe siècle, Paris (Classiques Garnier) 2019 , 2019, In: Francia Recensio. 2019, 4Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
2018
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Bloß verpackt, verstaut, verschickt? Anlegestellen im Indo-Pazifik als sozio-kulturelle Räume angewandten Wissens im 18. Jahrhundert , 1 Mar 2018, In: Historische Anthropologie : Kultur, Gesellschaft, Alltag. 26, 1, p. 66-82Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article