Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Historical Study of Land Use Changes and Emerging Epidemics

博士论文研究：土地利用变化和新出现流行病的历史研究

• 批准号: 1849657
• 负责人: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849657&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Historical; Study

This award supports a doctoral dissertation research project that studies epidemic diseases in the British Empire. The researcher will develop a comparative study of three cities: Belfast, Melbourne, and Bombay. She will focus on the microbe, the colonial administrator, and the bacteriologist as the central actors in each of the three cases. She will do so by engaging in a study of archival documents and other sources to obtain a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and cultural complexities that make each region unique. She plans to show how specific features of the local environment in these three regions, when combined with plans of sanitary improvement and land use change espoused by the British Empire, served to produce unique environments in which particular microbes thrived. The proposed project draws from multiple disciplinary sources and is intended for multiple disciplinary audiences. The researcher plans to disseminate her research results at conferences and workshops sponsored by history departments, epidemiology and public health departments, public health policy centers, and organizations that engage in climate studies.This project uses a historical frame while engaging with a number of central topics in the field of science and technology studies. It engages with the concept of nonhuman agency with its focus on the ecological specificity of microbes, and it uses Niche Construction Theory to access the localized environments and to draw out their relationship to microbial actors. Cultural construction of science and technology, particularly as it relates to imperialism and nineteenth century colonial practices, will also be an important element of consideration to this project. Using relatively new social scientific frameworks to guide this history, this project will engage with STS in its goal to induce new consideration of the agency of living objects and actor-network theory as a viable historical and social scientific frame.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持一个研究大英帝国流行病的博士论文研究项目。研究人员将对三个城市进行比较研究：贝尔法斯特、墨尔本和孟买。她将专注于微生物，殖民地管理员和细菌学家作为三种情况下的中心角色。她将通过对档案文件和其他来源的研究来实现这一目标，以更深入地了解使每个地区独一无二的社会，经济和文化复杂性。她计划展示这三个地区的当地环境的具体特征，当与大英帝国支持的卫生改善和土地使用变化计划相结合时，如何产生特殊微生物蓬勃发展的独特环境。拟议的项目来自多个学科来源，旨在为多个学科的受众。研究者计划在历史部门、流行病学和公共卫生部门、公共卫生政策中心和从事气候研究的组织主办的会议和研讨会上传播她的研究成果。本项目使用历史框架，同时涉及科学和技术研究领域的一些中心课题。它涉及非人类机构的概念，重点关注微生物的生态特异性，并使用生态位构建理论来访问局部环境，并绘制出它们与微生物行为者的关系。科学和技术的文化建设，特别是与帝国主义和十九世纪殖民做法有关的科学和技术的文化建设，也将是这一项目考虑的一个重要因素。使用相对较新的社会科学框架来指导这段历史，该项目将与STS合作，以实现其目标，即引导对生命物体和行动者网络理论作为可行的历史和社会科学框架的新考虑。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。