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RINA (Hendrika Grada) KNOEFF Date and Place of Birth: 26 October 1972, Staphorst, the Netherlands Work Experience October 2012 RINA (Hendrika Grada) KNOEFF Date and place of birth: 26 October 1972, Staphorst, the Netherlands Work Experience October 2012 – present: Senior researcher / assistant professor (Faculty of Arts, Department of History, University of Groningen). See: http://www.rug.nl/staff/h.g.knoeff/index October 2008 – October 2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Faculty of Arts, Art History, Leiden University) on the history of anatomical collections. See: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/research/culturesofcollecting/ February 2006 – September 2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Faculty of Arts, Art History, Leiden University) on the history of anatomy in relation to (modern) art (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. R. Zwijnenberg) October 2001 – January 2006: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Maastricht University) on ‘Philosophy, Anatomy and Representation’ in the NWO (Dutch Research Council) funded project ‘the Mediated Body’ (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. R. Zwijnenberg) March 2001 – July 2001: Teacher of English at the Mozaïek College in Arnhem Education October 1996 – November 2000: Ph.D. in history of medicine (Faculty of History, Cambridge University, UK) on ‘Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician’. Supervisor: Dr. A. Cunningham; Examiners: Prof. Dr. H. Cook and Dr. O.P. Grell August 1991 – August 1995: Culture and Science Studies (Maastricht University) with a specialisation in ‘Theory and History of Man and Nature’ October 1994 – April 1995: Visiting M.Phil Student at the Cambridge University Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Scholarships, Prizes and Distinctions 2012: Awarding of a NWO Aspasia grant. 2012: Awarding of a NWO Vidi grant for the project Vital Matters. Boerhaave’s Chemico- Medical Legacy and Dutch Enlightenment Culture. 2007: Awarding of the NWO programme (Free Competition) ‘Cultures of Collecting. The Leiden Anatomical Collections in Context’. I authored the application, but due to NWO regulations I could not be the main applicant. 2006: Awarding of the position of Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmunds College, Cambridge 1999: The essay ‘The Making of a Calvinist Chemist. Herman Boerhaave on God, Fire and Truth’ (published in Ambix 48 (2001) 102-111) was runner up in the Partington Prize competition and has been given the designation of ‘Highly Commended’ 1996 – 1999: Scholarships of the Wellcome Trust, VSB foundation, Fonds Doctor Catharine van Tusschenbroek, the Raymond and Edith Williamson Fund and the British Federation of Women Graduates Charitable Foundation for undertaking a Ph.D. at Cambridge University 1995: Research Prize of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Maastricht University for Master thesis on ‘Jonathan Goddard (1617-1675): The Five Faces of a Seventeenth- Century Physician’ Teaching and Supervisory Experience 2012 Teaching of courses at the Unviversity of Groningen (Sources and Methods of Cultural History (5ECTS)) 1 2012 Teaching of the MA course ‘Babes in Bottles’ on the history of anatomy and anatomical collections 2008 – present: Supervision of the Ph.D. projects ‘Collections of Perfection’ and ‘Collecting Pathological Anatomy’ in the above mentioned ‘Cultures of Collecting’ project. 2001 – 2006: Participation in the supervision of Ph.D. students in the project ‘the Mediated Body’, Maastricht University 2002 – 2003: Lecturing at Maastricht University 1998 – 2000: Supervision of BA students at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University Other relevant academic activities 2012 – present: Member of the core-staff of the Dutch Master trajectory in History of Medicine (Amsterdam, Free University / VU Medical Centre / Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC)) 2012 Co-author of the Leiden Declaration on Human Anatomy / Anatomical Collections (internationally addressing the great importance of good custodian of anatomical academic heritage) 2012 Organizer of an international conference on the history of anatomical collections. The conference will lead to a publication of a collection of essays on the history of anatomical collections in international perspective edited by Knoeff and Zwijnenberg (publisher: Ashgate (series: History of medicine in context) forthcoming 2014. 2010 – 2011: Co-organizer of a historical re-enactment of public arguments between professors of anatomy during a dissection (performance written by Andrew Cunningham) for an international conference of the EAHMH (European Association for the History of Medicine and Health) in Utrecht in September 2011. 2008 – present; organiser of Salon Boerhaave (monthly seminar for the discussion of topics in the history of science and medicine). 2007 – 1012: Organiser of international workshops at Leiden University on anatomical collections 2003 – 2006: Secretary of Gewina, the Dutch Organisation for the History of Science and Medicine 1997 – 1998: Organiser of the ‘Darwin College (Cambridge) Humanities and Social Sciences Group’ (weekly seminar in which students, fellows and visiting students of the College give papers) Invited lectures at the universities of Louvain la Neuve, Cambridge, Leeds, Barcelona, Lisbon and at the California Institute of Technology (MIT) Peer reviewer of articles for Gewina, Medical History, The British Journal for History of Science and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Reviewer of books for Nature and Times Higher Education. Member of: GeWiNa (the Dutch Organization for the history of science and medicine), The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) and the History of Science Society (HSS). Research statement In studying the history of medicine I have adopted an Anglo-Saxon and interdisciplinary (humanities) approach. This means that I study the history of medicine in relation to a broader intellectual culture. A recurring theme in my research is the importance of religion in early modern natural philosophy and medicine. Although historians of science and medicine have appreciated the importance of religion in science, they have paid very little attention to interdenominational differences. My research on the contrary analyses the differences between religious denominations and their different shaping effects on natural philosophy. In my Ph.D. thesis – as well as later publications on Boerhaave – I 2 have shown that Calvinism not only determined Boerhaave’s life, but that it was also basic to his natural philosophical investigations. For instance, Boerhaave’s ideas on the working of an all-pervasive divine fire and the effects of heat in the body were rooted in his Calvinist beliefs on the working of divine providence. In several articles I have likewise shown that Anglicanism can explain some of the ‘scientific’ decisions of English physiologist Thomas Willis in his work on the brain and nerves and that Mennonite martyr theology can clarify the outlook of Govard Bidloo’s anatomical atlas. In recent years I have mainly focussed on the history of anatomy – not from a medical perspective, but from the viewpoint that the body is a ‘cultural artefact’ that takes meaning of its cultural and historical context. I have published in (international) reviewed journals on the Dutch early modern anatomists Govard Bidloo, Frederik Ruysch and Bernard Siegfried Albinus, as well as on the neurology of the English physiologist Thomas Willis. I have thereby not only looked at the interrelations of medicine and religion, but also at medicine as part of broader cultural processes. For instance, I wrote on the early modern phenomenon of people vomiting little animals and in relation to a broad fear of pile worms endangering the safety of the Dutch Republic. At present I am preparing a historiographical monograph on Boerhaave, focusing on medical practices and ideas which we would nowadays call ‘unscientific’. Ultimately the book is aimed at questioning the status of (modern) scientific medicine and its heroes. Most recently I focused on anatomical collections as public history. This research is part of the NWO-funded project “Cultures of Collecting. The Leiden Anatomical Collections in Context”. I designed and lead the project which also involves the supervision of its two Ph.D. students. I have written on (1) the import of tourism on the making of anatomical preparations and exhibitions; (2) the public representation of female genitals in eighteenth-century anatomical cabinets and (3) the practice of taking anatomical preparations out of their containers as a means of communicating with visitors of anatomical collections. The research which is based on material objects, has taken me away from ‘theoretical’ medicine towards ‘hands-on’ practical medicine of dissections, bedside teaching and the handling of anatomical preparations. The chemistry and medicine of Herman Boerhaave has remained a theme in my research. In 2012 my VIDI application on the Enlightenment body was awarded. The project, entitled Vital Matters. Boerhaave’s Chemico-Medical Legacy and Dutch Enlightenment Culture, aims at analysing how Boerhaave’s chemistry became pivotal in eighteenth-century Dutch medicine. The import of the project, however, goes much further than writing a reception history of Boerhaave’s ideas. It ties in with current historiographic concerns with the traditional divide between artisanal epistemology and practices on the one hand and academic (scientific) knowledge on the other as well as with ongoing discussions on materiality and the occult powers of nature. A focus on the history
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