Past Visiting Scholar & Student

Toshihike Kamada

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Stuart Kandell

Research Associate
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Degrees Doctorate in Intergenerational Studies :: Union Institute in Cincinnati (1996)
MA in Drama :: University of Newcastle
BA in Theatre :: Northwestern University

Stuart Kandell has been called a “pioneer in the field of creative aging” and is nationally known for his leadership of Stagebridge, the nation’s premiere performing arts company of older adults, which he founded in 1978 and ran until 2013. He currently travels around the country speaking, training artists and replicating Stagebridge’s successful programs.

Kandell studied theatre at...

Merav Katz-Kimchi

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation The Rise of the Internet in America: Myths, Metaphors, and Discourses Completed 2008 Degrees PhD, Science, Technology, and Society :: Bar Ilan University (2008)

Merav grew up in Haifa, Israel, and completed a B.S. degree in biotechnology and food engineering cum laude at The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1993. Leaving the wet lab during the 1990's to pursue a career in the humanities, she worked as an editor in several publishing houses, editing fiction books, popular science books and an academic series on...

Sungkeen Kim

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Dissertation The Transformation of the Concept of Science and of the View of Nature in 19th Century East Asia Completed 2004 Degrees PhD, History of Science :: University of Tokyo (2004)
MA, History of Science :: University of Tokyo (1999)
BA, Chemical Engineering :: Chonnam National University, Korea (1995)

Sungkeen Kim majored in Chemical Engineering at Jeonnam National University in South Korea. He then went to Japan to study the history of science and philosophy after he became interested in the subject when he began paying...

Jochen Kirchhoff

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Tomoko Kitagawa

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Degrees Ph.D. East Asian Studies :: Princeton University (2009)
M.A. Asian Studies :: University of British Columbia (2006)
B.Sc. Mathematical and Life Sciences Double-Major; Political Science Minor :: University of British Columbia (2003)

Tomoko L. Kitagawa is an author of five books in Japanese, including a national bestseller (2012) and the most recent one on the history of mathematics (2015). She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2009 and taught history at Harvard University from 2009 to 2012. She moved to England in 2012 and...

Hiroto Kono

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology

PhD Candidate, History of Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Degrees M.A. History of Science :: Tokyo Institute of Technology (2018)
M.Sc. Physics :: University of Tokyo (2015)
B. Sc. Physics :: University of Tokyo (2013)

Hiroto Kono is a visiting doctoral student from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His PhD project focuses on the emergence and the development of "Busseiron," one of the major sub-disciplines of physics unique to Japan.

last updated: April 12th, 2020

Devaleena Kundu

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Scholar, English Literature
The English and Foreign Languages University

Degrees M.A. English Literature :: The English and Foreign Languages University, India (2013)
B.A. English (Honors) :: St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India (2011)

Devaleena’s doctoral research is in the field of thanatology, and her academic engagements include issues pertaining to mortality paradox, death denial, eschatology, symbolic immortality, burial rites, and cultures of mourning.

As part of her Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral...

Monica Kurath

Visiting Scholar
Office for the History of Science and Technology

Background to the human biotechnology debate: comparison between the United States and Switzerland

Christoffer Leber

Visiting Student Researcher
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Advisor(s) Kärin Nickelsen Degrees PhD History of Science :: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (ongoing)
State Exam in History and German Language :: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2015)
MA Modern History :: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2014)

Christoffer Leber investigates the complex relationship between science and religion in fin-de-siècle Germany. His dissertation project looks at the German Monist movement which was the leading secularist organization in Imperial Germany. Founded in 1906 by zoologist Ernst Haeckel, the...