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About Victor Monnin
Victor graduated in Contemporary Philosophy from the Panthéon Sorbonne University, as well as in History and Theory of the Arts from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He received his PhD in Epistemology and History of Science from the University of Strasbourg. His research focuses primarily on the history of paleontology and the representation of the deep past in popular culture. Currently based in New York City, he teaches History at John Jay College, City University of New York.Victor Monnin, Ph.D. is an early-career historian of science. He teaches History at John Jay College, City University of New York.
NBN Episodes hosted by Victor:
March 10, 2024
Rivals
In Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (Columbia Global Reports, 2023), Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the …
May 21, 2023
Horizons
In Horizons: A Global History of Science (Mariner Books, 2022), James Poskett, Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the Uni…
May 20, 2023
Split and Splice
In Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, director emeritus at the Max Planck …
January 4, 2023
Oceans Under Glass
In Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Samantha Muka, Assistant Professor of Science, Tech…
December 15, 2022
Bone Rooms
In Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press, 2022 for paperback edition), Samuel J. Redman, Associa…
November 22, 2022
Minding the Climate
Why is it so difficult to adopt a more sustainable way of life, even when convinced of the urgency of the environmental crisis? If adopting new behavi…
October 28, 2022
Rebels, Scholars, Explorers
In Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Professors Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner un…
October 10, 2022
A Ritual Geology
In A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, 2022), Robyn d’Avignon, Assistant Professor of His…
September 26, 2022
Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona
In Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona. Incarnations and Contestations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Professors Kirsti Niskanen…
August 17, 2022
Molecular Capture
In Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Adam Nocek, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Technology …
August 4, 2022
Minerva's French Sisters
In Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France (Yale University Press, 2021), Nina Gelbart, Professor of History and Anita Joh…