Dr. Brooke Penaloza-Patzak, MA BFA
Dr. Brooke Penaloza-Patzak, MA BFA
Teaching
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Email: penaloza.patzak@univie.ac.at
Apr. 2024 - Jul. 2024 Research Fellowship, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK): “The World as We Know It: Sclater’s Six-Region Model and the Life Sciences, 1858-Today”
Oct. 2023 - Mar. 2024 Marie Jahoda Stipendium, University of Vienna, at the Department of Economic and Social History
Nov. 2020 - Sept. 2023 Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, Austrian Research Funds, Project number: J 4408-G “Beringia: Ancient Migration, Data Collections, and the Shape of Science” at the Department of Economic and Social History
Education
- 2018 Dr. phil. (Geschichte, Universität Wien)
- 2011 MA (Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center)
- 2006 BFA (Fine Art, Alfred University New York State College of Ceramics)
Research interests
- History of scientific, indigenous, and vernacular knowledge
- History of biogeography
- Classification, the concept of „Race,“ and hierarchies of value
- Epistemologies of material evidence
- History of migration
- Museum anthropology, collecting, and collections
- Methods in material culture
Third-Party-Funded Projects
- Projekt: Beringia: Material Evidence, Praxis and the Shape of Science
(FWF Schrödinger Stipendium 2020-2023) - Buchprojekt: With Objects at Hand: Developing Early Anthropology, A
Transnational History (ÖAW PostDOC-Track Stipendium) 2/2020-7/2020
Selected Publications
- “Of Scientists and Specimens: Early Anthropology Networks in and
between Nations and the Natural and Human Sciences,” in Handbook on the History of the Human Sciences, David McCallum (ed.) Singapore: Palgrave, 2022, 1651-1678 - “Friends in Deed: Allied in the Interwar Struggle for ‘German’ Science
and Art,” in Academies and World War I: The Aftermath [special issue] Acta Historical Leopoldina, Robert Fox and Wolfgang U. Eckart (eds.) 78
(2021): 139-160. - “Capital Collections, Complex Systems: Vienna, Berlin, and
Ethnographic Specimen Exchange in Trans-National fin desiècle Scientific Networks,” in Science in the Metropolis. Mitchell Ash (ed.). Abingdon,
Oxon: Routledge., 2020, 152-171. - “An Emissary from Berlin: Franz Boas and the Smithsonian Institution,
1887,” in: Museum Anthropology 41(1) (2018): 30-45.