Claire Sabel, MPhil MA Ph.D.


Claire Sabel, MPhil MA Ph.D.

Kolingasse 14-16
1090 Wien
Zimmer: 01.37

T: +43-1-4277-40895
claire.conklin.sabel@univie.ac.at

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Curriculum Vitae

  • Lebenslauf

    Claire Conklin Sabel (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) ist Historikerin mit den Schwerpunkten auf Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, und Imperialismus im neuzeitlichen Europa und Südostasien, seit 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher mit ERC-Projekt SCARCE, und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Geschichte.

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    • 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
  • Auszeichnungen (inkl. Ehrungen und Preise)
    • 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

Forschung

  • Tagungsorganisationen
    • 2019, “Collaborative Pedagogies in the Global History of Science,” University of Pennsylvania
  • Schwerpunkte
    • Geschichte der Geowissenschaften
    • Umweltgeschichte
    • Material Culture
    • Wirtschaftsgeschichte
    • Indische Ozean
    • Südostasien
    • Indonesian
    • Imperialismus und Kolonialismus
  • Projekte
    • 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

Funktionen

  • Mitgliedschaften
  • GutachterInnentätigkeit
    • Peer-review for: Isis

Publikationen

  • 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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Gems, Science, and Empire: Talk at the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast. Sabel, Claire (Interviewpartner*in); Robinson, Michael (Produzent*in). 2025.

Veröffentlichungen: Elektronische/multimediale Veröffentlichung › Multimediale Veröffentlichung


Trading Gems and Knowing the Earth in Early Modern Eurasia. Sabel, Claire (Autor*in). 2025. The Newsletter - free academic periodical published by the IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies).

Veröffentlichungen: Elektronische/multimediale Veröffentlichung › Webpublikation


Mining for precious documents in Vienna’s archives. Leitner, Sebastian (Autor*in); Seinitzer, Sarah (Herausgeber*in); Surlina, Dolores (Herausgeber*in) et al.. 2025. The ASSAY - a Blog currated by SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850).

Veröffentlichungen: Elektronische/multimediale Veröffentlichung › Webpublikation


SCARCE Explores Slovakia's Mining Heritage. Sabel, Claire (Autor*in); Seinitzer, Sarah (Herausgeber*in); Surlina, Dolores (Herausgeber*in). 2025. The ASSAY - a Blog currated by SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850).

Veröffentlichungen: Elektronische/multimediale Veröffentlichung › Webpublikation


The Making of Empirical Knowledge: Recipes, Craft, and Scholarly Communication. / Sabel, Claire.
Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access. 2020. S. 125-144.

Veröffentlichungen: Beitrag in Buch › Beitrag in Buch/Sammelband › Peer Reviewed


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Aktivitäten

  • 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

Grains, Globes, and Common Ground Between Merchants and Jewellers in Europe's Seventeenth Century Gem Trade

Claire Sabel
Crafted Forms, Skillful Doing
Seminar/Workshop, Vortrag
2.6.2026 - 2.6.2026

Secrecy, Sovereignty and Science in the Indian Ocean Gem Trade c. 1600-1700

Claire Sabel
What Gems Can Say: Contemporary Perspectives for Small Works in Gemstone
Konferenz, Vortrag
29.5.2026 - 29.5.2026

SCARCE Colloquium

Claire Sabel , Thomas Morel
SCARCE Colloquium
Vortragsreihe, Kolloquium, Organisation von ...
26.5.2026 - 26.5.2026

Mining Central European Archives: Some Notes on Method

Claire Sabel , Sebastian Felten , Sebastian Leitner
Vortrag
13.4.2026 - 13.4.2026

What kind of commodities were gemstones in 17th century Europe?

Claire Sabel
Critical Mineral Histories
Seminar/Workshop, Vortrag
26.3.2026 - 26.3.2026