JOHN N. ALEKNA

Assistant Professor of History of Science

Education

Ph.D., History, Princeton University, 2020

M.Phil., Modern Chinese Studies (with Distinction), University of Oxford, 2014

A.B., Chinese Studies and Government (Double Major), Dartmouth College, 2010

Research

History of communication technologies, exploration and science in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Courses

Global history and philosophy of science 1550–2000

Questions and debates in the history of science

English writing and historical methods in the history of science

Selected Publications

“Notes from Enlightenment Studio: The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century China,” in preparation for submission to Isis, Summer 2023.

“Neither Nation nor Empire: Situating Shanghai Radio in the Global Technological Moment, 1922–25,” Technology and Culture, 2022, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 1078–1105.

“Ernest George Hayward Osborn (1891–1957): Radio Pioneer in East Asia.” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).