Ernst-Christian Steinecke

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Ernst-Christian Steinecke (born in Göttingen 1984) is assistant and doctoral student at the Chair for Science Studies of the ETH Zurich since January 2010. From 2004 to 2009 he studied Philosophy, History and Classical Studies at the University of Freiburg (Germany). From September to December 2009 he was a member of the NCCR Iconic Criticism »eikones« in Basel. Since 2011 he takes part in the Postgraduate Program of the "Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens" (Center for the History of Knowledge) in Zurich. In his doctoral thesis he seeks to combine methods from discourse analysis, science studies, the sociology of practice and the history of media to give a somewhat historical-epistemological account of the development of historical knowledge during the second half of the 18th century. Within the scope of this project it will be highly important to identify the impact that libraries, museums, coin cabinets, but also writing utensils, inscription devices or communication media had on research activities, methods, professional careers and institutional frameworks (see projects). Besides the medial respectively material history of scientific practices the history of the university and of disciplines, especially the history of historical and classical scholarship, as well as farther-reaching issues of historical anthropology and cultural history count among his fields of attention.