Below you can find examples of ongoing MUSTS research projects.
Experiments in Artful Participation
Post-doc project by dr. Ties van de Werff, as part of the Artful Participation project
Current projects
Abandoning technology: Understanding the dynamics of technological trajectories of phase-out
PhD project by Zahar Koretsky, supervised by prof. dr. Harro van Lente
The Scientific Conference: A Social, Cultural, and Political History
International conferences are standard features of scientific life today. Since their emergence, in the second half of the nineteenth century, some 170 000 of them […]
Resisting Closure: A Museum Studies Approach to Performing the Canonic Heritage of Symphonic Music
PhD project by Denise Petzold, supervised by Prof. dr. Peter Peters and Prof. dr. Karin Bijsterveld
A Transnational History of Responsible Innovation
PhD project by Danielle Shanley, supervisors: Cyrus Mody, Darryl Cressman
Hidden Ears: Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, and Analyzing Sonic Information, 1960s–the present
Research project by Karin Bijsterveld, conducted as a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
The Meditating Brain in Context: An Exploration of Ethics in Action in Neuroscientific Meditation Research
PhD project by Mareike Smolka, supervisors: Cyrus Mody, Cornelius Borck, Darian Meacham
Reassembling Renewables from the Margin: Taiwan’s Experiences of Offshore Wind Farms in Green Transformation
PhD project by Tsai-ying Lu, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cyrus Mody
Advancing Microscopy: New Media and Citizen Microscopists in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
PhD project by Lea Beiermann, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Cyrus Mody