Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100–1700)
I am the co-editor of two forthcoming volumes that will be published in the Brill series Agriculture and the Making of the Sciences 1100-1700: first, Two 14th-Century Chinese and Arabic Agricultural Books, co-authored with Dagmar Schaefer, Tarek Sabra, and Chun Xu and forthcoming from Brill in 2024, and second, Towards a Global History of Soil: Sciences, Practices, Materialities, and Mobilities, co-edited with Justin Niermeier-Dohoney and forthcoming from Brill in 2024. These two edited volumes are the direct result of my collaboration with scholars at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, on the project “Agriculture and the Making of the Sciences 1100-1700.” My collaboration with the Max Blanck Planck Institute began in 2019 when I was a postdoctoral fellow there, and continued in summer 2022, when I was a funded visiting fellow there; my ongoing and funded collaboration with the project extends until 2027.
I am a collaborator in the EGYLandscape Project, which explores the historical landscapes of Egypt from the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries. Jointly funded by the French and German science foundations —Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) — the EGYLandscape Project is co-directed by Prof. Nicolas Michel (Aix-Marseille University, France) and Prof. Albrecht Fuess (University of Marburg, Germany).