Kerstin Pannhorst sie/ihr

Visiting Scientist

Kerstin.Pannhorst@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889140 - 8110
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As a historian of science, I specialize in the history of museums and collections, particularly in colonial contexts. As part of the DZK-funded project “Entangled Histories – Colonial Collections from Togo and Ghana in Berlin Museums,” and in collaboration with colleagues from several institutions, I research the provenance of zoological, botanical, and ethnological collections.

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2021–2024 Central Archive of the Berlin State Museums: Coordination and provenance research for the collaborative project “Traces of the ‘Boxer War’ in German Museum Collections – A Joint Approach” (DZK)

2017–2021 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / Humboldt University Berlin: Dissertation research on “Insects as a Global Commodity: Collecting Specimens in Early 20th-century Taiwan”

2016–2017 Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taipei: Dissertation research

2013–2015 Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: Research project “Wissensdinge,” co-editor of the book “The Nature of Things: Stories from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin” (BMBF)

2010–2012 Neanderthal Museum: Research Trainee in the exhibition department

2009–2010 National Taiwan University, Taipei: International Chinese Language Program, ICLP (DAAD)

2004–2005 Université de Montréal: Exchange program, studies in Linguistic Anthropology and Chinese

2001–2009 University of Freiburg: Master of Arts in Historical Anthropology, Biology, and Linguistics