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Jennifer Tucker is a historian who studies the interrelations of art and science, photography, and mass visual culture, with a specialization in 19th to mid-20th century British, U.S., and trans-Pacific history. The common threads in her diverse research fields are the dynamics of visual media in modern history, the nature of evidence, public perceptions and practices of history, and the interrelationships of science, technology, and the law.

“Visual and Material Studies,” in Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, and Lucy Noakes, (eds.) New Directions in Social and Cultural History (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018), pp. 129-42.

Tucker, “Visual and Material Studies,” in Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, and Lucy Noakes, (eds.)New Directions in Social and Cultural History (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018), pp. 129-42. Pdf here. Abstract: “Visual materials excite viewers’ imagination about the past and also raise the question of how these materials will be viewed Read more

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Tucker, co-ed. with Simon Schaffer & David Serlin. Radical History Review 127: “Political Histories of Technoscience” (Winter 2017).

Tucker, co-ed. with Simon Schaffer & David Serlin. Radical History Review 127: “Political Histories of Technoscience” (Winter 2017). This special issue offers case studies of technoscience engaged both with the interdisciplinary tools of science and technology studies and with the enduring legacies of radical political critique. Drawing on a wide Read more

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Visiting Senior Fellow, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University College London, Jan-Feb. 2016.

In early 2016, I visited The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University College London for two months, as a guest of Birkbeck’s History of Art Department. It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know scholars working in this department, such as Profs. Lynda Nead, Patrizia di Bello, and Steve Read more

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