1997 PhD in philosophy and history of science (minors in

SABINE BRAUCKMANN - SHORT ACADEMIC CV
EDUCATION
1997
PhD in philosophy and history of science (minors in mathematics and
Slavic languages and literatures), University of Muenster (Germany),
magna cum laude
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2011 2008 - 2010
2007
2006
2003 - 2005
2001 - 2003
2001
1998 - 2000
Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University (Estonia)
Group Leader, Science Centre, University of Tartu Library, Tartu
(Estonia)
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Science Studies, Estonian
University of Life Sciences, Tartu (Estonia)
Fellow, Humanities Institute "Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life
Sciences", Dartmouth College (USA)
Senior Research Fellow, Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolution and
Cognition Research, Altenberg (Austria)
Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth
College (USA)
Research Associate, Special Research Group "Wound Healing and
Inflammation Mechanisms", University of Muenster School of
Medicine (Germany)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of Muenster
(Germany)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 - 2011
2010
2008
2006
2002 - 2003
2002
2000
1998
1997 - 1998
Visiting Fellow, KLI Altenberg (Austria)
Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Visiting Scholar, MPI History of Science, Berlin (Germany)
Senior Fellow, KLI Altenberg (Austria)
Visiting Professor, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of
Pediatrics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center (USA)
Visiting Scientist, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Utah
Health Sciences Center (USA)
Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Science, Medicine and
Technology of Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Scholar-in-Residence, Rockefeller Archive Center (USA)
Guest Lecturer, Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Neuromorphology, MPI for Neurobiology
(Germany)
GRANTS, HONORS & EDITORSHIP
2010 - 2011
Visiting Scholarship, KLI, Altenberg (Austria)
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1997 - 1998
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Visiting Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (USA)
Workshop Grant, Volkswagenstiftung (Germany)
EEA Grant (Norway)
Research Grant, Estonian Ministery of Education and Research
(Estonia)
Research Grant, Estonian Academy of Sciences (Estonia)
Research Fellowship, Humanities Institutes, Dartmouth College (USA)
'August-Rauber-Medal', University of Tartu Medical School (Estonia)
Member, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
Research
Series Editor "Annals of Morphology", American Journal of Medical
Genetics
Maurice A. Biot Grant, California Institute of Technology (USA)
Early Career Research Fellowship, DFG (Germany)
Research Grant, March of Dimes (USA)
Scholarship-in-Residency, Rockefeller Archive Center (USA)
Visiting Fellowship, University of Tartu (USA)
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (USA)
Research Grants, DFG (Germany)
M EMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
International Society for the History, Philosopy and Social Sciences of
Biology (USA)
Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Society for History of
Science (Austria)
History of Science Society (USA)
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Eine Theorie für Lebendes? Die synthetische Antwort Ludwig von Bertalanffys,
Frankfurt/Main, München, New York, Hänsel-Hohenhausen 2000
Graphing Genes, Embryos and Cells: Seeing 3D and Beyond (S. Brauckmann, D. Thieffry,
C. Brandt, G.B. Müller, eds), Berlin: MPI 2009
(ed). The Selected Works of Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) (Cambridge, MA. Harvard
University Press, 2012 (under contract)
A Life Along the Cell: Paul A. Weiss (working title). Archimedes Series, Springer (under
agreement)
SELECTED ARTICLES
2012. (special volume, co-edited with Dolly Jorgensen). People and plants: Introducing
environmental humanities of plants in the Baltics and Beyond. Estonian Journal of Ecology (in
print)
2012. On fates and specification: Images and models of developmental biology. In The
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Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences (N. Anderson and M.
Dietrich, eds.), Lebanon, Dartmouth College Press. University Press of New England, pp.
213-234
2011. Axes, planes and tubes, or the geometry of embryogenesis. Studies in History and
Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42: 381-390.
2011. Cultures of seeing embryos and cells in 3-dimensions and flatness. Studies in History
and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42: 365-367 (special volume
editor)
2011. Gilbert SF, Brauckmann S. Fertilization narratives in the art of Gustav Klimt, Diego
Rivera, and Frida Kahlo: Repression, Domination, and Eros among cells. Leonardo 44: 221227
2010. Visand teaduseeuringutest (What are science studies?) Akadeemia 22: 579-598
2009. Seeing 3D and beyond (Introduction). In Graphing Genes, Embryos and Cells:
Seeing 3D and Beyond (Sabine Brauckmann, Denis Thieffry, Christina Brandt, Gerd B.
Müller, eds), pp. 5-12. Berlin: MPI
2008. The many spaces of Karl Ernst von Baer. Biological Theory 3: 85-89.
2007. Die Differenz von Embryoformen und Zellmorphologien: Eine epistemische
Betrachtung. In Bildfunktionen in den Wissenschaften (Hofer, V. und Klemun, M., Hrsg.).
wiener zeitschrift zur geschichte der neuzeit, 7(1): 71-83.
2006. Seeing With Hands and Talking Without Words: On Models and Images in the
Sciences. (Essay Review). Biological Theory. 1(2): 199-202.
2006. Networks of tissue knowledge, 1910-1960. Le bulletin d'histoire et d'épistemologie
des sciences de la vie 13(2): 33-52.
2006. August Rauber (1841-1917): From the primitive streak to Cellularmechanik.
International Journal of Developmental Biology 50: 439-449.
2004/2005. with D. Thieffry. Introduction. Picturing Eggs, Embryos, and Cells. History and
Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26: 283-289 (special volume)
2004. with Scott F. Gilbert. Sucking in the gut: A brief history of early studies on gastrulation.
In Gastrulation: From Cell to Embryo (Claudio D. Stern, ed.), Cold Spring Harbor, NY, CSHL
Press, pp. 1-20.
2003. The horizontal architecture, or how we locate ourselves inside nature, in Imaging
Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity (A. Roepstorff, N. Bubandt, and K. Kull eds),
Aarhus-Oxford, Aarhus University Press, pp. 260-282
LECTURES
2010. Das System im Experiment. Apercus zu Paul Weiss. Tagung "Milieu Biologie. Ein
Wiener Denkstil?", IfK Wien (Austria)
2009. Wie formen sich Zellen? Franz Ungers Beobachtungen zur Zellteilung vor 1850.
Symposium "Einheit in der Mannigfaltigkeit"-Franz Ungers Naturforschung im internationalen
Kontext. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austria)
2009. Caspar Friedrich Wolff's De formatione intestinorum and its Impact on Karl Ernst von
Baer", Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russia).
2009. Zwischen Wissens- und Erfahrungsraum. Aperçus zur estnischen Landschaftswahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert. KulturGeschichteTag 2009, Linz (Austria).
2009. Commentary. "Life of the Cell. Philosophy and History of Cell Research", Workshop,
Egenis, University of Exeter (UK).
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2008. Paul A. Weiss: A pioneer of the neuro-cell. Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston Salem (USA)
2006. The embryonic tree: A themata of Entwickelungsgeschichte. Symposium "History of
EvoDevo", European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Prague (Czechia).
2005. On frogs and sex. Commemoration for John M. Opitz, Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Human Genetics, Salt Lake City (USA)
2005. "August Rauber Lecture", Opening Lecture at the Bicentennial of the Anatomical
Theatre, University of Tartu Medical School (Estonia)
2005. Images of Morphogenesis and Cell Dynamics, 1880-1940, Centre Cavaillès, ENS,
Paris, (France)
2004. Organismic sets, or the complexity of a theory of biology, Niels Bohr Institute,
Copenhagen (Denmark)
2004. On fields and landscapes, or how to modell cells and genes, History and Philosophy
of Science, Notre Dame University and Fishbein Center, University of Chicago (USA)
WORKSHOPS AND PANELS
2011. with S. F. Gilbert. "Debating Entwickelungsgeschiche" (panel), Biannual Meeting,
ISHPSSB, Salt Lake City (USA)
2010. with Under & Tuglas Literature Centre. "Plants and Environment", Mini-Conference,
Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn (Estonia)
2009/2010. with AHHAA Science Center. Celebrating Life Images. Series of Lectures
delivered by Estonian and International Scholars and Scientists, Tartu (Estonia)
2009. with C. Hauskeller (UK). "What Cells and Genes Say Who We Are". Tartu (Estonia).
2009. "On Plants and Earth". International Workshop, Tartu University (Estonia)
2008. with D. Thieffry (CNRS - Univ. Méditerranée, Marseille), Chr. Brandt (MPI-WG, Berlin),
G. B. Müller (University of Vienna, Austria), "Cultures of Seeing 3D And Beyond" (BioGraphs
II). Max Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Germany)
2007. with I. Puura (UT, Tartu). "Form of Space and Its Visualization in the Sciences and
Culture, 1750 to 2000", International Workshop, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu
(Estonia)
2007. with D. Thieffry (CNRS - Univ. Méditerranée, Marseille), Chr. Brandt (MPI-WG, Berlin),
G. B. Müller (University of Vienna, Austria), "Graphing Genes, Cells, and Embryos"
(BioGraphs I), Stazione Zoologica, Naples (Italy)
2005. with Charles Galperin (ENS, Paris), Symposium "Form and Development". XXIIst
International Congress of History of Science, Beijing (China)
2005. with Denis Thieffry (ENS, Paris), Session "Towards an Epistemology of Biological
Graphs", Biannual Meeting of the ISHPSSB at Guelph (Canada)
EXHIBITION
2010. "A Walk Through Evolution and Heredity, 1809-2009". Exhibition. Tartu University
Library (Estonia), April 15 to September 1, 2010. Catalogue, edited by Sabine Brauckmann,
and with contributions from Ivar Puura, Ken Kalling, Norberto Serpente.
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