Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona
The current proliferation of the term ‘persona’, especially in the history of science and scholarship, might conceal the fact that it is often used in three distinct senses. One, more akin to its use in literature and media studies, denotes an individual
Gadi Algazi
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Gerda Lerner (1920–2013) was one of the most influential figures in the development of women’s and gender history. She knew the power of auto/biography and very consciously controlled her image through autobiographical writing.
Katharina Prager
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Crafting a Scholarly Persona: A Panel Discussion [PDF]
This is an edited transcript of Crafting a Scholarly Persona, the Scholarship Section's program from the AALS Annual Meeting in 2007. During this program, three established scholars, Ian Ayres, Paul Robinson, and Carol Sanger, discussed their individual ...
Ian Ayres+3 more
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The Disciplined Historian: “Epistemic Virtue”, “Scholarly Persona”, and practices of subjectivation. A proposal for the study of Brazilian professional historiography [PDF]
This paper discusses theoretical issues raised by studying Brazilian professional historiography through the concepts of “epistemic virtue” and “scholarly persona” as proposed by Herman Paul.
João Rodolfo Munhoz Ohara
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Scholarly Personae and Twentieth-Century Historians: Explorations of a Concept
In this article Bosch argues in favour of an understanding of the concept of ‘persona’ in which embodiment means more than the conclusion that everything that men do originates in or arises from a body.
Mineke Bosch
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THE HISTORIAN AS A PUBLIC MORALIST: ON THE ROMAN ORIGINS OF A SCHOLARLY PERSONA
In her recent book, Virtus Romana , Catalina Balmaceda provides a fascinating analysis of the concept of virtus in Roman historiography. Although virtus , which translates as courage or more generally as virtue, meant different things to different Roman ...
Herman Paul
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Im/possible Careers. Gendered Perspectives on Scholarly Personae around 1900
In German-speaking countries as elsewhere, women, especially from the middle classes, demanded entry into the male-dominated academic world with growing vehemence around 1900.
Johanna Gehmacher
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Introduction: Knowledge Making, Everyday Life, and Gendered Scientific/Scholarly Personae
Building on the growing literature on academic households and creative couples, this special issue aims to contribute to these discussions by taking a closer look at the connection between knowledge production, everyday life, and scientific and scholarly
Johanna Gehmacher+2 more
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Scholarly Persona Formation and Cultural Ambassadorship: Female Graduate Students Travelling Between Belgium and the United States [PDF]
This contribution studies the CRB Educational Foundation’s travel programme between Belgium and the United States during the interwar years. It focuses on women’s participation in the programme and on the role of gender in the ways in which the foundation constructed and enacted ideals of being a good fellow.
Kaat Wils, Pieter Huistra
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The concept of scientific persona was developed by historians of science at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin fifteen years ago in order to understand how science works and how it can be conducted in a credible way. The Latin word persona means mask and
Kirsti Niskanen, Mineke Bosch, Kaat Wils
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