Current position(s)

Associate Professor

Current project(s)

"Scientific History." I'm studying three amateur challenges (by Buckle, Taine, and du Bois-Reymond) to historicism as the discipline of history professionalized in the 19th century.

Former position(s)

Princeton University
UCLA
Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Göttingen
University of Pennsylvania

Monographs (and dissertation)

Finkelstein, Gabriel. Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge; London: MIT Press, 2013.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/emil-du-bois-reymond
http://www.amazon.de/Emil-Bois-Reymond-Transformations-Studies-Technology/dp/0262019507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393796712&sr=8-1&keywords=emil+du+boisemil+du+bois

Articles

2014 “Emil du Bois-Reymond on ‘The Seat of the Soul.’” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. Online 16 January.
2014 “Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Consciousness.” In Brain, Mind, and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience, ed. Chris Smith and Harry Whitaker, ch. 10. Berlin: Springer.
2012 “Autorité rhétorique: Claude Bernard et Émile du Bois-Reymond.” In Les élèves de Claude Bernard: Les nouvelles disciplines bernardiennes au tournant du XXe siècle, ed. Jean-Gäel Barbara and Pierre Corvol, 173-192. Paris: Éditions Hermann.
2011. “Matteucci and du Bois-Reymond: A Bitter Rivalry.” Archives Italiennes de Biologie: A Journal of Neuroscience 149, no. 4 (December): 29-37.
2006 . “Emil du Bois-Reymond vs. Ludimar Hermann.” Comptes rendus Biologies 329, nos. 5-6: 340-347.
2004 . “Marriage and Science in Nineteenth Century Berlin: Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Correspondence with Jeannette Claude.” In La Mediazione matrimoniale: Il Terzo (in)comodo in Europa fra Otto e Novecento, ed. Bruno P. F. Wanrooij, 195-219. Biblioteca di Storia sociale, 32. Fiesole: Georgetown University; Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
2003 . “M. du Bois-Reymond Goes to Paris.” British Journal for the History of Science 36, no. 3 (September): 261-300.
2001. “Romanticism, Race, and Recapitulation.” Science 294, no. 5549 (7 December): 2101-2102.
2000. “‘Conquerors of the Künlün’?: The Schlagintweit Mission to High Asia, 1854-57.” History of Science 38, pt. 2, no. 120 (June): 179-218.

Edited volumes

Geschichte der Neurowissenschaften
Reise- und Endeckungsgeschichte