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STAFF
AND RESEARCHERS
DIRECTOR:
Professor
Christopher Cullen
LIBRARIAN: Mr. John Moffett
INSTITUTE ADMINISTRATOR: Ms. Susan Bennett
BURSAR: Brigadier Tim Thompson
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RESEARCHERS
Professor
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd - Scholar in Residence
Sasakawa
Foundation Research and Teaching Fellow in Japanese
Science and Technology
Gerard
Clinton Godart
grg25@cam.ac.uk
(NRI
and Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of
Cambridge)
After
studying philosophy and history in Leuven, Osaka, and Kyoto, Clinton
received
his PhD from the department of history at The University of Chicago.
His
research involves the intellectual history of modern Japan, especially
the interconnections
between science, religion, and philosophy. He is currently working on a
book
project, based on his dissertation, titled Darwin
in Japan: Evolutionary Theory and Japan’s Modernity. This project
is a
broad rethinking of the roles evolutionary theory played in Japan from
the late
nineteenth century into the postwar era. Darwin
in Japan involves not only biology, but also how philosophers,
Christians,
Buddhists, state officials as well as anarchists, conceived and used
evolution,
and therefore serves as a platform to think about larger issues such as
the
relation between science and religion, and science and the modern
state. At the
Needham Research Institute, he will focus among others on the
controversial
biologist Imanishi Kinji, and the influence of Soviet biology
(Lysenkoism) in
postwar era Japan.
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELLOWS
Hu Cheng 胡成 Oct. 2009-Mar.2010
Cheng.hucheng@gmail.com
(Department of History, Nanjing
University)
Professor Hu’s research focuses on the
transcultural, transnational history of East Asia and between China and
the West.
During his time at the Needham Research Institute he will be
researching the
interaction between western doctors and traditional Chinese medicine in
Modern
China (1825-1914), seeking to reinterpret the agency of Chinese
medicine and the
indigenous environment in this relationship, and further rethinking
cultural
interaction and hybridity in Modern China.
Meha
Priyadarshini January –
April 2010
mp2417@columbia.edu
(Dept. of History, Columbia University)
Meha
Priyadarshini is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at
Columbia University, New York. She is studying the porcelain trade to
colonial
Mexico via the Manila Galleon. During her time at the Needham Research
Institute she will study the history of porcelain production in
Jingdezhen.
Zhang Meifang 章梅芳 Jan.
2010-Jul.2010
zhangmeifang@gmail.com
(Research Center for Science, Technology and
Civilization, University of Science & Technology, Beijing)
Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on feminist history
of science and technology. During her time at the Needham Research
Institute,
she will be researching Chinese professional female medical
practitioners’
careers and achievements from 1869 to 1927.
Dr. Yin Xiaodong 尹晓冬 -
Jan. 2010-Jul.2010
xiaodongstone@sohu.com
(Physics Department, Capital Normal University, Beijing)
Dr. Yin Xiaodong received her Ph.D on “Firearm-making
Technology and Knowledge about Trajectory Introduced into China from
the West
in the 16-17th centuries”
at the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 2007. She then worked on “The History and Foundation of
Quantum
Theory” at the Max –Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin as
a Postdoctoral fellow in 2007-2008. During her stay at the Institute,
she will
focus on the academic activities of Chinese physicists educated in
Great
Britain in the first half of the 20th century and their influence on
Chinese physics education and research. She will also study the role of
Joseph
Needham and the Sino-British Science Co-operation Office in war-time
China on
the development of modern science in China, with special emphasis on
physics.
LI FOUNDATION VISITING FELLOW
SINO-BRITISH FELLOWSHIP TRUST
VISITING FELLOW
Chen Pu 陈朴 September –
December 2009
chenpu@live.com
(Research Center of Science & Technology History and Development
Strategy,
Harbin Institute of Technology)
Chen Pu’s research focus is mechanical
engineering in ancient China. During his
stay at the NRI, he will be working on the development of the cart and
its
influence on social change in the Pre-Qin Period.
OTHER
VISITING SCHOLARS
Dr. Catherine Jami - September 2004-2005.
jami@paris7.jussieu.fr
Dr. Jami is chargée de recherche at CNRS, Paris. She has
published extensively on 17th and 18th century Chinese mathematics, as
well
as on the Jesuits and the reception of the science they introduced in
the
late Ming and early Qing period. She is currently the French
Government Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. During her time at
the
Institute, she is completing the research and writing for her book
on science, Western learning, and the construction of the state in
China during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722).
See her webpage
here
Dr. Mei Jianjun 梅建军 -
January to March, 2010
meijianjun12@yahoo.com.cn
(Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of
Science and
Technology Beijing)
Dr. Mei
Jianjun is a professor and director of the Institute of Historical
Metallurgy
and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He
received his
Ph. D. on early copper and bronze metallurgy in Xinjiang at the
Department of
Archaeology, University of Cambridge in 2000. His major research field
is
archaeometry and the history of metallurgy in China. During his stay at
the
Institute, he will focus on the origins and early development of copper
and
bronze technology in China. His research is part of the Science and
Civilization in China project (volume on Non-ferrous metallurgy in
ancient
China).
Kenji
Ito 伊藤憲二 December 2009-March 2010
ito_kenji@soken.ac.jp
(The Graduate University for
Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, Japan)
Kenji Ito teaches STS as an
associate professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in
Hayama,
Japan. He is interested in cultural and
historical aspects of science and technology, transmission of
scientific
knowledge, and reproduction of scientific personnel, with the main
focus on the
history of physics in 20th century Japan.
At the Needham Research Institute, he is
working on a book project about the introduction of quantum mechanics
into Japan.
Xie Yonggang 谢永刚 Oct. 2009-Oct.2010
xieyg2005@163.com
xieyg@hlju.edu.cn
(Institute of Disaster
Economics, Heilongjiang University)
Professor Xie’s
research focuses on the history and economics of disasters. During his
time at
the Needham Research Institute he will be researching the scientific
and social
effects of water control initiatives.
Dr. You Yang 尤洋 October 2009 –
April 2010
youyang@sxu.edu.cn
(Research Center on Philosophy of Science and Technology,
Shanxi University)
Dr. You’s research focuses on the
philosophy of social science
and social epistemology. During his stay at the NRI, he will be working
on
analyzing the development and practical influence of social
epistemology and constructing
a contextual social epistemology.
Guo
Mingshan郭明杉 September-December 2009
hitgmshan@yahoo.com.cn
(Research Center of Science & Technology History and Development
Strategy,
Harbin Institute of Technology)
Guo
Mingshan’s research mainly focuses on
venture capital and technological, economic and social development
strategy in modern
China. During
his stay at the in NRI, he will be undertaking a comparative study of the factors influencing related
Chinese and British technical concepts.
VISITING
PHD STUDENTS
Mr.
LIU Xinyi
(Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
xl241@cam.ac.uk
Millet in Neolithic China.
Jiri
Hudecek
(Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of
Cambridge)
jh602@cam.ac.uk
Jiri Hudecek graduated in Sinology at
Charles University,
Prague. Having been awarded the NRI Studentship in East Asian History
of
Science, Technology and Medicine, he received in 2008 an M.Phil. in
History,
Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine at the
Department
of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and is
currently
a Ph.D. student there. His research topic is the Chinese mathematician
Wu
Wen-Tsun (Wu Wenjun) and his inspiration in traditional Chinese
mathematics,
but he is also interested in traditional Chinese mathematics, sociology
of
mathematics and different uses of the history of science in general.
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