Dr.Ina Heumann
(Sie/Ihr)

Scientist / (Senior) Scientist

• Collection Future

• Research and Innovation

I am the Head of the Center for Humanities of Nature. My research focuses on the politics of nature, with particular emphasis on natural history and empire; collecting and violence; and the history of extractivism, translocation, and the appropriation of natural history specimens. I have conceived, secured funding for, and led multiple externally funded research projects, and I have published widely on topics including duplicates, digitisation, and dinosaurs.

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Awards & Prizes 04/2025–07/2025 Praxis Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Applied Humanities: Genealogy and Politics 2015/2016 Senior Fellow, International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna (appointment declined) 11/2011–01/2012 Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 10/2011 Visiting Scholar, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 09/2011 Award for Best Dissertation 2011, German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology 05/2011–07/2011 Resident Scholar, Special Collections, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA 07/2010–12/2010 Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department III, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger) 10/2009–06/2010 IFK International Fellowship; research stays at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and Columbia University, New York 07/2009–09/2009 Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department III, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger) 10/2008–06/2009 Junior Fellow, International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna