About me

My doctoral project is part of the AMAZE (Associated Media of Austro-Hungarian Zoological Education) project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Under the supervision of Alan S. Ross (Institute of Education), we examine visual cultures of knowledge and their role in the centralization and nationalization of education and science in the Habsburg Empire. My research focuses on approximately 700 hand-painted wall charts in the collection of the Department of Evolutionary Biology. Most of these charts are unique, one-off items dating back to the 19th century. My first responsibility is to systematically catalogue the charts and classify them. In the next phase, I will explore the charts within a broader historical context. Key questions include: How did the wallcharts and the motifs depicted in them come into being? What scientific discourses and trends are reflected in the collection, and in what ways? And what practices of knowledge dissemination were associated with these charts?