{"id":19478,"date":"2026-03-25T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=19478"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:24:23","slug":"dr-matthew-holmes","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-matthew-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Matthew Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2022-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History, AtHOME Project, Department ofCultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavanger<\/li>\n<li>2018-2022 Research Associate, ARTEFACT Project, Centre for Research in the Arts, SocialSciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge<\/li>\n<li>2013-2017 PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science, University of Leeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History of Science and Technology<\/li>\n<li>Environmental and Animal History<\/li>\n<li>Animal Minds and Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Chimeras, Hybrids, and Grafting<\/li>\n<li>Introduced and Invasive Species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics<\/em> (University of Pittsburgh\u00a0Press, 2024).<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Avian Architecture: Technology, Domestication, and Animal Minds in Urban America\u2019, <em>History of Science<\/em> 63:1 (2025): 101\u2013119.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps: The Technological Regulation of Avian Life in the United States\u2019, <em>Technology and Culture<\/em> 65:3 (2024): 819\u2013842.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018A Plague of Weasels and Ticks: Animal Introduction, Ecological Disaster, and the Balance of Nature in Jamaica, 1870-1900\u2019, <em>The British Journal for the History of\u00a0<\/em><em>Science<\/em> 56:3 (2023): 391\u2013407.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Yeast, Coal, and Straw: J.B.S. Haldane\u2019s Vision for the Future of Science and Synthetic\u00a0Food\u2019, <em>History of the Human Sciences<\/em> 36:3\u20134 (2023): 202\u2013220.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":19476,"template":"","person_category":[437,277],"class_list":["post-19478","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-fellows","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/19478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}