 Karen Elizabeth
Wonders
Institute for the History of Science Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Papendiek 16 D - 37073 Göttingen Germany Tel. +49 - (0)551-39-8412 Fax. +49 - (0)551-39-8412 Email <kwonder@gwdg.de> |
Short Vita Academic degrees and studies
Positions Research Fellow, Institute for the History of Science, Göttingen University, 2001-05 Instructor, Department of History, University of Victoria, 2002-03 Research Associate - Institute for the History of Science, Göttingen, 1995-2001 Adjunct Professor - Department
of History, Vanderbilt University, 1997-98
Current research Environmental art history;
wilderness and hunting iconography; gender and landscape
representation; science and religion
Websites and environmental projects website www.FirstNations.de website www.CathedralGrove.se website
WaldAktion
British Columbia
Recent papers “The Iconography of Sport and the Preservation of Game Habitat,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, 2005 “Hunting Narratives of the Colonial Age: A Gender Reading of Their Iconography,” Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik, Universität Hamburg, 29 November, 2004 “The Iconographic Construction of the Arctic at the Onset of the Age of Empire,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, 2004 “Bound by Nature: Intersections between Western Art and Wildlife Art,” Western History Association 43rd Annual Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, 2003 “Rocky Mountain Big Game Trophies; a European Tradition,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2002 “Game Animals and Territoriality in European Diorama Display,” The Native, Naturalized, and Exotic: Plants and Animals in European History, Environmental History Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2001 “Landscapes and Gender: the Visual Rrepresentation of Alexander von Humboldt’s Views of Nature,” European Society for Environmental History 1st International Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, 2001 “Die Großwildjagd und
die Entstehung der Wildlife Art,” Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt,
Germany, 2000
Select publications “The iconography of doomsday fact and fiction," in Nicolaas Rupke, ed. Doomsday Science in Historical Perspective (in preparation). "Wildlife and art and the Nazis," Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria 2006, S. 70-86 “Hunting Narratives of the
Age of Empire: a Gender Reading of Their Iconography,” Environment and
History (vol. 11, 2005), 269-291 “Caccia grossa nel XIX secolo: un trionfo della mascolinità,” in Giorgio Verzotti, ed. Il Bello e le bestie: Metamorfosi, artifici e ibridi dal mito all’immaginario scientifico (Milano: Skira, 2004), 199-207. “Habitat Dioramas and the Issue of Nativeness,” Landscape Reseach (vol. 28, no. 1, 2003), 89-100. “Scientific Portraiture: Göttingen Professors in Historical Pictures,” (with N. Rupke) in Nicolaas Rupke, ed. Göttingen and the Development of the Natural Sciences (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002). “Big Game Hunting and the Birth of Wildlife Art,” in Carl Rungius; Artist, Sportsman (Toronto: Warwick Press, 2001), 17-38. “Humboldtian Representation in Medical Cartography," (with N. Rupke) in Nicolaas Rupke, ed. Medical Geography in Historical Perspective (London: Welcome Trust Centre, 2000), 163-175. “Sportsman's Eden: A Wilderness Besieged,” The Beaver (Dec.1999/Jan.2000), 30-37. “A Sportsman's Eden: A Wilderness Beckons,” The Beaver (Oct./Nov.1999), 26-32. “Dioramas as Ecological Theatre,” European Review (vol. 1, no.3, 1993), 285-300. “Bird Taxidermy and the Origin of the Habitat Diorama,” in Renato Mazzolini, ed. Non-Verbal Communication in Science (Florence: Olschki, 1993), 411-447. Habitat Dioramas: Illusions of Wilderness in Museums of Natural History (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1993). Literarischer Salon
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