Claire Sabel, MPhil MA Ph.D.

Claire Sabel, MPhil MA Ph.D.

Universitätsring 1
1010 Wien

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claire.sabel@univie.ac.at
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Curriculum Vitae

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  • Curriculum Vitae

    Claire Conklin Sabel is a historian of early modern earth sciences, extractive industries, and empire, with expertise in Dutch and British empires in Southeast Asia. Her research explores how knowledge about the earth and environment were shaped by the growth of European imperialism and overseas trade in the Indian Ocean. She received her PhD in History of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project SCARCE, and is affiliated with the Key Research Area in History of Science. This project aims to produce a critical history of natural resource management, focusing on Central Europe in a global perspective.

    She is currently working on her first book in progress, Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistory, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750, and is developing a second project on gendered expertise in early modern mining, “Expanded Horizons: Women and the Making of Natural Resources in the Early Modern World.”

    • 2024-present University of Vienna, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History, ERC-SCARCE
    • 2024 University of Pennsylvania: PhD in History and Philosophy of Science
    • 2022 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Fellow, (UK, Netherlands, India, Indonesia)
    • 2022 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, STS program
    • 2015 University of Cambridge, UK: MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science, with Distinction
    • 2013 Columbia University, New York: BA in History, with Honors
  • Awards
    • 2020 Dean's Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
    • 2020 Student Award, History and Philosophy of Geology, Geological Society of America
    • 2013 Carl B. Boyer Prize in the History of Science, Columbia University
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Research

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  • Conference Organisation
    • 2024, co-organizer,
    • 2019, “Collaborative Pedagogies in the Global History of Science,” University of Pennsylvania
  • Research Interests
    • History of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
    • Environmental History
    • Material Culture
    • Economic History
    • Indian Ocean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Indonesia and Malay World
    • Imperialism and Colonialism
  • Projects
    • ERC Starting Grant Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850 (SCARCE): https://scarce.univie.ac.at/
    • 2019-2020: Collaborative Pedagogies in the Global History of Science, University of Pennsylvania
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Professional Service

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Publications

  • 2019 “‘Glass Worke’: Precious Minerals and the Archives of Early Modern Earth Sciences,” in New Earth Histories ed. Alison Bashford, Emily Kern and Adam Bobbette. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 145-162
  • 2020    Co-authored with Pamela H. Smith, Tianna Uchacz, and Naomi Rosenkranz, “The Making of Empirical Knowledge: Recipes, Craft, and Scholarly Communication,” in Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access, ed. Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray. Cambridge: MIT Press: 125-144
  • 2019    “The Impact of European Trade with Southeast Asia on the Mineralogical Studies of Robert Boyle,” in Gems in the Early Modern World: Materials, Knowledge, and Global Trade, 1450-1800, ed. Sven Dupré and Michael Bycroft. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: 87-116.
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Activities

  • Seminar/Workshop, Organization of, SCARCE Colloquium, University of Vienna, 2024-present
  • Seminar/Workshop, Talk or oral contribution, “'Conducing to the knowledge of the universe and trade': the Role of Goldsmiths in Materializing the Early Modern Globe,” Working Group History of Science Colloquium, University of Vienna, 17.12.24
  • Conference, Talk or oral contribution, “Finding Common Ground: the Indian Ocean Gem Trade and the Making of the Early Modern Globe c. 1600-1750,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Merida, Mexico, 08.11.12
  • Seminar/Workshop, Talk or oral contribution, “Minescapes: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge” with Pamela H. Smith, Lex van Geen, Garima Reheja, and Adelina Roleana, Earth Science Colloquium, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, NY, 11.10.24
  • Conference, Talk or oral contribution, “Rare Earth: Finding, Sorting, and Studying Diamonds in Early Modern India and Indonesia,” ICAS 13, Surabaya, Indonesia, 01.08.24
  • Conference, Talk or oral contribution, Commentator, “History of Geology and the Underground in Indonesia,” AAS-in-Asia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 09.07.24
  • Seminar/Workshop, Talk or oral contribution, “Style and Substance in the Study of Diamonds in Early Modern Europe,” Hot Gems workshop, Brown University/RISD, RI, 08.05.24-09.05.24
  • Seminar/Workshop, Talk or oral contribution, “Style and Substance in the Study of Diamonds in Early Modern Europe,” New York Early Modern workshop, New York University, NY
  • Seminar/Workshop, Talk or oral contribution, “‘The Most Noble of All Commodities’: The Global Gem Trade and the Seventeenth-Century Earth Sciences,”’ Department II Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
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