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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | History of Science,Modern and Contemporary History |
| Keywords | History of Technology, History of Extraterrestrial Life, Space and Planetary History, Astroculture, Theory and History of Historiography, History of Time, Temporality and the Future |
| Honours and awards | 2026: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Fellow 2023: Deutsches Museum, München, Scholar-in-Residence 2021: California Institute of Technology, Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor 2019: Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC 2018: NASA/SHOT Fellowship in Aerospace History |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | New York, NY |
| Institution | New York University |
| Institute | Center for European and Mediterranean Studies |
| Homepage | www.actgeppert.com |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. David Gordon Blackbourn | Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2007 |
Programme(s)
| 2005 | Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2012 | Alexander C.T. Geppert (ed.): Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
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| 2011 | Alexander C.T. Geppert, Till Kössler (Hg.): Wunder: Poetik und Politik des Staunens im 20. Jahrhundert. Suhrkamp, 2011 |
| 2009 | Alexander C.T. Geppert: Fleeting Cities. Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 |
| 2009 | Luisa Passerini, Liliana Ellena, Alexander C.T. Geppert (Hg.): New Dangerous Liaisons. Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century. Berghahn Books, 2009 |
| 2008 | Alexander C.T. Geppert: Space Personae: Cosmopolitan Networks of Peripheral Knowledge, 1927-1957. In: Journal of Modern European History, 2008, 262-86 |
| 2008 | Alexander C.T. Geppert: Space in Europe, Europe in Space: Symposium on 20th-Century Astroculture. In: NASA History News & Notes, 2008, 1-12 |
| 2008 | Alexander C.T. Geppert: Früher war die Zukunft bunter: Der Historiker Alexander Geppert im Gespräch . In: Humboldt Kosmos: Das Magazin der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 2008, 22-27 |
| 2007 | Alexander C.T. Geppert: Flights of Fancy: Outer Space and the European Imagination, 1923-1969. In: Steven J. Dick, Roger D. Launius, Societal Impact of Spaceflight . NASA, 2007. 585-600 |
| 2007 | Alexander C.T. Geppert: Okkultismus als Anti-Ignorabimus: Zur Geschichte einer epistemischen Mesalliance, 1872-1913. In: Kurt Bayertz, Myriam Gerhard, Walter Jaeschke Weltanschauung, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Bd. 3: Der Ignorabimus-Streit. Felix Meiner, 2007. 253-279 |
| 2007 | Alexander C.T. Geppert: Weltstadt für einen Sommer: Die Berliner Gewerbeausstellung 1896 im europäischen Kontext . In: Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins, 2007, 434-448 |