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Dr. Alison Kraft

Focus Area: External Relations of the Max Planck Society

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Following a biological science degree, Alison Kraft undertook postgraduate studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK. Her postdoctoral work at the University of Nottingham included research into the history of pharmaceutical innovation and stem cell biology. She has published on a range of topics in the history of the life sciences in the late 19th and 20th centuries. More recently, including as Research Fellow at the Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg (2017-2018), her research has focused on the history of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (PCSWA). Publications here include a themed issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies (2018) and together with Carola Sachse, she is co-editor of the book: Science, (Anti)Communism and Diplomacy (Brill, 2020).

 

Within the framework of the GMPG project, her research centres on the theme of internationalisation with reference in particular to the relationship between the Max Planck Society and the US during and beyond the Cold War.

Selected Publications

 

 

Books

Kolboske, Birgit: Guerillaliteratur – Genre und Gender. Über Gattung und Geschlechterverhältnis in der Literatur des lateinamerikanischen Widerstandes. Berlin: Edition Open Access 2015 [2014].

Edited Books

Kolboske, Birgit, Axel C. Hüntelmann, Ina Heumann, Susanne Heim, Regina Fritz and Roman Birke (eds.): Wissen, Macht, Geschlecht. Ein ABC der transnationalen Zeitgeschichte. Berlin: Edition Open Access 2016.

Hoffmann, Dieter, Birgit Kolboske and Jürgen Renn (eds.): "Dem Anwenden muss das Erkennen vorausgehen." Auf dem Weg zu einer Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Berlin: Edition Open Access 2015 [2014]. http://www.edition-open-access.de/proceedings/6/index.html.

Book Sections

Kolboske, Birgit: "G. Gleichstellung." In: Birgit Kolboske, Axel C. Hüntelmann, Ina Heumann, Susanne Heim, Regina Fritz and Roman Birke (eds.): Wissen Macht Geschlecht. Ein ABC der transnationalen Zeitgeschichte. Berlin: Edition Open Access 2016, 33–40.

Heim, Susanne, Ina Heumann, Axel C. Hüntelmann and Birgit Kolboske: “J. Jubiläum.” In: Birgit Kolboske, Axel C. Hüntelmann, Ina Heumann, Susanne Heim, Regina Fritz and Roman Birke (eds.): Wissen Macht Geschlecht. Ein ABC der transnationalen Zeitgeschichte. Berlin: Edition Open Access 2016, 57–61.

Renn, Jürgen, Horst Kant and Birgit Kolboske: "Stationen der Kaiser-Wilhelm-/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft." In: Dieter Hoffmann, Birgit Kolboske and Jürgen Renn (eds.): "Dem Anwenden muss das Erkennen vorausgehen". Auf dem Weg zu einer Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Berlin: Edition Open Access 2015 [2014], 5–120.

Journal Articles

Kolboske, Birgit, Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Alexander v. Schwerin and Sascha Topp: "Die Anfänge eines Forschungsriesen." Damals. Das Magazin für Geschichte 2 (2018), 10–13.

Translation

Gutfreund, Hanoch: "Zwei der glänzendsten Gestirne. Max Planck und Albert Einstein." Translated by Birgit Kolboske. In: Stephan Leibfried, Christoph Markschies, Ernst Osterkamp, Günter Stock and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (eds.): Berlins wilde Energien: Portraits aus der Geschichte der Leibnizschen Wissenschaftsakademie. Berlin: De Gruyter 2015.

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Presentations

 

 

07/06/2016 
Institute's Colloquium of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
with Ulrike Thoms: Equal Opportunities in the Max Planck Society. Education, Human Development and Gender Issues

20/04/2016
20th Annual Assembly of the Equal Opportunitites Commissioners of the Max Planck Society, Göttingen
Gleichstellungsaspekte in der Geschichte der MPG

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