Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona

Kirsti Niskanen is Professor Emeritus of History in the Department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden, and principal investigator of the Scientific Personae in Cultural Encounters project. Michael J. Barany is Lecturer in the History of Science in the Science, Technology & Innovation Studies subject group at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• 1. Introduction: The Scholar Incarnate .- 2. “A Young Man’s Game”: Youth, Gender, Play, and Power in the Personae of Mid-twentieth Century Global Mathematics .- 3. Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland: The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido .- 4.  Scholarly Persona Formation and Cultural Ambassadorship: Female Graduate Students Travelling between Belgium and the United States .- 5. A Woman in a “Man Made World”: Erzsebet Kol (1897-1980) .- 6. Cut Out For Medicine: Anatomical Studies and Medical Personae in Fin-De-Siècle Finland .- 7. Gifts of Nature? Inborn Personal Qualities and their Relation to Personae .- 8. Scientific Persona Performance through Online Biographies and their Relationship to Historical Models .- 9. Immortal Beloved: Virtue, Death, and the Making of the Swedish Nineteenth-century Pedagogical Scholar .- 10. The Whole Man: A Masculine Persona in German Historical Studies .- 11. Wilhelm Wundt’s Critical Loyalty: Balancing Gendered Virtues among Early Experimental Psychologists .- 12. The Scholarly Persona Embodied: Seclusion, Love, Academic Battles, and International Exchanges in the Shaping of a Philosophy Career.