In fierce competition, four researchers have been selected for LUCK’s International Fellowship Program in the History of Knowledge. They will stay with us for two weeks in April and present their interesting research (see below).

Welcome to LUCK, Pascale, Heikki, Jona and Kirsten!

Pacale Siegrist

My name is Pascale Siegrist, I am a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. I am an intellectual historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe – my work so far has dealt with the thought of the anarchists and geographers Élisée Reclus, Pëtr Kropotkin and Lev Mechnikov. I am currently working towards a ‘second book’ project on artificial languages after Esperanto.

Heikki Kokko

PhD Heikki Kokko is a senior researcher at Tampere University, Finland. He has specialized in the theory and methodology of social history of experiences and his empirical focus is on the circulation of knowledge in nineteenth-century Finland. His recent publications include ‘Social History of Experiences: A Theoretical-Methodological Approach’ (2023) and ‘From Local to Translocal Experience – The Nationwide Culture of Letters to the Press in Mid-1800s Finland’ (2022). Additionally, he has contributed to the Translocalis Database at the digital cultural heritage collections of the National Library of Finland (2023).

Jona T. Garz

His field of expertise is the history of knowledge practices between education, psychology, and medicine in the 19^th and 20^th century. He has published on the history of “feeblemindedness” in children (Zwischen Anstalt und Schule. Eine Wissensgeschichte der Erziehung ‘schwachsinniger’ Kinder in Berlin, 1845–1914. Bielefeld: 2022. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839458525; Garz, Jona T. “Fabricating Spaces and Knowledge: The Berlin-Dalldorf Municipal Asylum for “Feeble-Minded” Children (1880–1900)”. History of Education Review, 146–165. https://doi.org/10.1108/HER-05-2020-0029), the history of personality testing („Psychologie, Prüfung, Persönlichkeit – Eine Wissensgeschichte der Kraepelin’schen Arbeitskurve zwischen Labor und pädagogischer Praxis, 1902–1944“. In Schule und Pathologisierung, eds. J. Golle et al., 73–89. Weinheim/Basel: 2023) and has co-edited a volume on the history of knowledge of special education (Das (A)normale in der Pädagogik: Wissenspraktiken – Wissensordnungen – Wissensregime. Bad Heilbrunn: 2022. doi.org/10.35468/5971). Jona T. Garz is currently working on a history of knowledge of learning (1850–1975).

Kirsten Macfarlane

Kirsten Macfarlane is an Associate Professor of Early Modernities at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College. Her research lies at the intersection of religious, cultural, and intellectual history in the period from the Reformation to the early eighteenth century, and she has a particular interest in the history of biblical scholarship in early modern Europe. Her first book, Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy: The Polemical World of Hugh Broughton (1549–1612) was published with Oxford University Press in 2021, and her second book, Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World will be out with OUP in 2025.