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Dr. Matthew Holmes

KWI International Fellow

Akademischer Werdegang

  • 2022-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History, AtHOME Project, Department ofCultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavanger
  • 2018-2022 Research Associate, ARTEFACT Project, Centre for Research in the Arts, SocialSciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
  • 2013-2017 PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science, University of Leeds

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • History of Science and Technology
  • Environmental and Animal History
  • Animal Minds and Intelligence
  • Chimeras, Hybrids, and Grafting
  • Introduced and Invasive Species

Publikationen (Auswahl)

  • The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024).
  • ‘Avian Architecture: Technology, Domestication, and Animal Minds in Urban America’, History of Science 63:1 (2025): 101–119.
  • ‘Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps: The Technological Regulation of Avian Life in the United States’, Technology and Culture 65:3 (2024): 819–842.
  • ‘A Plague of Weasels and Ticks: Animal Introduction, Ecological Disaster, and the Balance of Nature in Jamaica, 1870-1900’, The British Journal for the History of Science 56:3 (2023): 391–407.
  • ‘Yeast, Coal, and Straw: J.B.S. Haldane’s Vision for the Future of Science and Synthetic Food’, History of the Human Sciences 36:3–4 (2023): 202–220.