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Adelheid Voskuhl

Associate Professor of the History of Science

Professor Voskuhl teaches and researches the history of technology from the early modern to the modern period. Her broader interests include the philosophy of technology, the history of the Enlightenment, and modern European intellectual and cultural history. She teaches classes in the history and historiography of technology, the eighteenth century, and the philosophy and theory of technology and literature. The mansucript of her first book is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. It is entitled Mechanics of Sentiment: Androids, Industrialism, and Selfhood in the European Enlightenment and slated for release in late 2012.

Education:

M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, UK
M.Sc. in Physics, Oldenburg University, Germany
M.A. in Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

 

Recent articles:

“Producing Objects, Producing Texts: Accounts of Android Automata in Late 18th-century Europe.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38 (2007), 422-444.

“Motions and Passions: Music-playing Women Automata and Cultural Commentary in Late 18th-Century Germany.” In Jessica Riskin, ed. Genesis Redux: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007, 293-320.

“‘Bewegung’ und ‘Rührung’: Automatenbau und Automatenkunst in Aufklärung und Frühromantik in Deutschland.” In Barbara Orland, ed. Artifizielle Körper - lebendige Technik. Technische Modellierungen des Körpers in historischer Perspektive. Reihe: Interferenzen. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte der Technik, Bd. 9, Chronos Verlag, Zürich 2005,

“Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies.” Social Studies of Science, 2004 (34), 393-421.

“Schein und Strahlung: Die Anfänge der Messung der Solarkonstante im 19. Jahrhundert und ihre Replikation.” In: Christoph Meinel, ed. Instrument – Experiment. Historische Studien. Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik. Berlin 2000, 350-359.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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