Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona

This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions. Focusing on gender and embodiment, the contributors analyse the situated performance of scholarly identity and its social and intellectual contexts and consequences. Disciplinary cultures, scholarly practices, personal habits, and a range of social, economic, and political circumstances shape the people and formations of modern scholarship. *

• Featuring *a foreword by Ludmilla Jordanova, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations* is of interest to historians, sociologists, media and culture scholars, and all those with a stake in the personal dimensions of scholarship. An international group of scholars present original examinations of travel, globalisation, exchange, training, evaluation, self-representation, institution-building, norm-setting, virtue-defining, myth-making, and other gendered and embodied modes and mechanisms of scholarly persona-work. These accounts nuance and challenge existing understandings of the relationship between knowledge and identity.

  Includes a foreword by Ludmilla Jordanova Advances research on the history of science and learning, offering new historical perspectives on the emerging field of persona studies Explores how social and cultural factors shape academic identity and knowledge production more broadly Chapters focus particularly on gender and embodiment, examining academic femininities and masculinities within scholarly institutions and ideals

  Autorentext

  Kirsti Niskanen is Professor Emeritus of History in the Department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden, and principal investigator of the Scientific Personae in Cultural Encounters project. Michael J. Barany is Lecturer in the History of Science in the Science, Technology & Innovation Studies subject group at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

  Inhalt

  1. Introduction: The Scholar Incarnate .- 2. A Young Man's Game: Youth, Gender, Play, and Power in the Personae of Mid-twentieth Century Global Mathematics .- 3. Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland: The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido .- 4. Scholarly Persona Formation and Cultural Ambassadorship: Female Graduate Students Travelling between Belgium and the United States .- 5. A Woman in a Man Made World: Erzsebet Kol (1897-1980) .- 6. Cut Out For Medicine: Anatomical Studies and Medical Personae in Fin-De-Siècle Finland .- 7. Gifts of Nature? Inborn Personal Qualities and their Relation to Personae .- 8. Scientific Persona Performance through Online Biographies and their Relationship to Historical Models .- 9. Immortal Beloved: Virtue, Death, and the Making of the Swedish Nineteenth-century Pedagogical Scholar .- 10. The Whole Man: A Masculine Persona in German Historical Studies .- 11. Wilhelm Wundt's Critical Loyalty: Balancing Gendered Virtues among Early Experimental Psychologists .- 12. The Scholarly Persona Embodied: Seclusion, Love, Academic Battles, and International Exchanges in the Shaping of a Philosophy Career.