Monographien |
A Singular Remedy. Cinchona Across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820 (Cambridge University Press, Science in History), 2020. | |
Las reliquias del pasado. El coleccionismo e estudio de antigüedades precolombinas en Perú y Chile, 1837–1911 (Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Instituto Riva Agüero), 2019. [Revised Spanish translation of Relics of the Past]. |
Relics of the Past. The Collecting and Study of pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837–1911 (Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology), 2014. | |
Edited Volumes & Special Issues |
[with Jürgen Osterhammel] Rethinking Global History, or: The Global Historian’s Craft (Cambridge University Press, 2024). | |
[with Michael Bollig] Commodifying the ‘Wild’. Anxiety, Ecology, and Authenticity in the Late Modern Period, in: Environmental History 24, no. 4 (2019), 665-735. | |
[with Irina Podgorny & Philip Kohl] Nature and Antiquities. The Making of Archaeology in the Americas (Arizona University Press, 2014). | |
[with Niels Petersson & Boris Barth] Globalgeschichten: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven (Campus Verlag, Globalgeschichte, 2014). |
[with Su Lin Lewis] A World of Ideas: New Pathways in Global Intellectual History, c. 1880–1930, in: Modern Intellectual History 10, no. 2 (2013), 347-351. | |
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed) |
38°C. Fever, Thermometry, and the Coming into Being of a Global Norm, ca. 1868-1890*, Isis (A Journal of the History of Science Society), 116, no. 1 (2025), 126-135. | |
Non-Western Scholars, Bourgeois Virtues, and the International Scientific Community in the Age of Empire, 1870–1920, The Historical Journal 67, no. 4 (2024), 769-784. | |
The Finest in Any Museum in the World’. Collecting Pre-Conquest Antiquities in the Southern Andes, c. 1850-1911, Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science 65, no. 3 (2023), 541-551. | |
[with Miruna Achim] Pas Encore Classiques: La Fabrique des Antiquités Américaines au XIXe siècle, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 76, no. 2 (2021), 341-376. | |
Cinchona Harvest, Deforestation and Extinction in the Quito & Santa Fé Audiencias, 1752–1811, Environmental History 24, no. 4 (2019), 673-679. | |
[with Michael Bollig] Introduction. Commodifying the ‘Wild’. Anxiety, Ecology, and Authenticity in the Late Modern Era, Environmental History 24, no. 4 (2019), 667-672. | |
Circulation. Reflections on Circularity, Entity and Liquidity in the Language of Global History, Journal of Global History 12, no. 3 (2017), 303–318. | |
In their Own Hands: Domestic Medicine and ‘the Cure of all Kinds of Tertian and Quartan Fevers’ in Late-Colonial Lima, Colonial Latin American Review 25, no. 4 (2016), 492–511. | |
World Trade in Medicinal Plants from Spanish America, 1717–1815, Medical History 59, no. 1 (2015), 44–62. | |
Of Butterflies, Chinese Shoes and Antiquities: A History of Peru’s National Museum, 1826–1881, Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 51 (2014), 283–302. | |
Conversaciones sobre el pasado. José Mariano Macedo y la arqueología peruana, 1876–1894, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, 2014. | |
Disjunctive Circles. Global Intellectual Culture in Cuzco and the Journeys of Incan Antiquities, c. 1877–1921, Modern Intellectual History 10, no. 2 (2013), 399–414. | |
[with Su Lin Lewis] A World of Ideas: New Pathways in Global Intellectual History, c. 1880–1930, Modern Intellectual History 10, no. 2 (2013), 347–351. | |
Colecciones y estudios de historia natural en las colonias alemanas de Llanquihue y Valdivia, c. 1853–1910, Historia 396, no. 1 (2011), 77–102. |
Conquering the Past: Post-War Archaeology and Nationalism in the Borderlands of Chile and Peru, c. 1880–1920, Comparative Studies in Society and History 51, no. 4 (2009), 691–714. | |
[with Luis Alegría & Gabriela Polanco] Momias, cráneos y caníbales. Lo indígena en las políticas de “exhibición” del Estado chileno a fines del siglo XIX, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Debates, 2009. | |
¿Cómo escribir la historia de la arqueología en el Perú? Respuesta a las «Observaciones» de Peter Kaulicke acerca de «¿La mirada imperialista?», Histórica XXXII, no. 2 (2008), 181–192. | |
Book Chapters and Journal Articles |
[with Christina Brauner], On Empire, in: Peter Schroeder & Samue Zeitlin (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History of Political Thought [invited & in preparation]. |
“Medical Museums and Collecting”, in: Rana Hogarth & Projit Mukharji (eds.) The Cambridge History of Medicine, Vol. 5, Nineteenth-Century Medicine [invited & in preparation]. |
„Un ordre semblable à celui des botanists“. Die (Un-) Ordnung der Fieber, in: Athene - Magazin der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 2/2025. | |
[with Miruna Achim & Agnes Gehbald], Memory and Knowledge, 1770-1830, in: Bloomsbury Cultural History of Latin America [invited & submitted]. |
Commentary on Benjamin Ballester, The Diaspora of pre-Columbian Objects from Atacama into a Global Network of Goods, Collectors and Museums Between 1850 and 1950, Current Anthropology [invited, submitted & accepted]. |
Chinarinde, in: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online [forthcoming 2025, Springer Verlag]. |
Wechselfieber, in: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online [forthcoming 2025, Springer Verlag] |
[with Jürgen Osterhammel]: Introduction. Rethinking Global History, in: Stefanie Gänger / Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.), Rethinking Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 1-20. | |
Materiality: Global History and the Material World, in: Stefanie Gänger / Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.), Rethinking Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 235-253. | |
La quina y el conocimiento médico en tránsito del mundo atlántico, 1751–1820, in: Antonella Romano / Rafael Gaune (eds.), Fragmentos de Mundo: objetos y artefactos americanos en Europa, siglos XVI-XX (Colecção Estudos & Documentos 29, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2023), 85-102. |
Chinarinde um 1800. Die Grenzen der (Stoff-) Geschichtsschreibung, in: Perspektiven auf Stoffgeschichte. Materialität, Praktiken, Wissen (transcript Verlag, 2023), 61-75. | |
Lokal. Bemerkungen zur Sprache der neueren Welt- und Globalgeschichte, in: Gabriele Lingelbach (ed.), Narrative der Globalgeschichte (De Gruyter, 2022), 179-188. |
Towards a History of Knowledge for Spanish America. On Nicola Miller’s Republics of Knowledge, Global Intellectual History 9, no. 3 (2022), 290-298. | |
Une pause réflexive pour l’histoire globale, in: Histoire Politique 45 (2021) [revised French translation of “Denkpause für Globalgeschichte”]. | |
The Secrets of Indians. Native Knowers in Enlightenment Natural Histories of the Southern Americas, in: Simona Boscani / Meike Knittel (eds.), Mapping the Territory. Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1830 (Brill, 2021), 101-126. | |
[with Jürgen Osterhammel] Denkpause für Globalgeschichte, Merkur 74, no. 855 (2020), 79-86. | |
A Thing of the Past. Representation, Material Culture and Indigeneity in Post-Conquest South and Mesoamerica, in: David Midgley / Jenny Mander (eds.), Legacies of the Conquest. Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America (Routledge, 2019), 114-125. |
“Antiquities” in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, in: Sonia Alconini / R. Alan Covey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Incas (Oxford University Press, 2018), 787–806. |
De mariposas, zapatillas chinas y antigüedades: una historia del museo nacional del Perú, 1826-1881, d y Cultura. Revista del Museo Nacional de Arqueología e Historia del Perú, no. 29 (2018), 11-37, [revised translation of „Of Butterflies, Chinese Shoes and Antiquities“]. |
El comercio global con plantas medicinales de Hispanoamérica, 1717–1815, in: Carlos Sanhueza (ed.), La movilidad del saber en América Latina. Objetos, prácticas e instituciones (Siglos XVIII al XX) (Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Chile, 2018), 75-98. |
Indigenous Evanescence and Salvage in the Conquest of Araucanía, 1850–1930, in: Fernando Vidal / Nélia Dias (eds.), Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture (Routledge, Environmental Humanities Series, 2015), 134–147. |
Picturing Antiquities. Photographs of pre-Columbian Artefacts from the Collection of José Mariano Macedo (1823–1894), in: Manuela Fischer / Michael Kraus (eds.), Exploring the Archive. Historical Photography from Latin America. The Collection of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (Böhlau Verlag, 2015), 108–127. | |
Collecting Incan Antiquities. Antiquarianism and the Inca Past in 19th Century Cuzco, Tribus: Jahrbuch des Linden-Museums Stuttgart. Special Issue: Perspectives on the Inca, 2015, 38–49. |
[with Niels Petersson & Boris Barth] Einleitung: Globalisierung und Globalgeschichte, in: Boris Barth / Stefanie Gänger / Niels P. Petersson (eds.), Globalgeschichten. Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven (Campus Verlag, Globalgeschichte, 2014), 7–18. |
Mikrogeschichten des Globalen. Chinarinde, der Andenraum und die Welt während der „globalen Sattelzeit“ (1770–1830), in: Boris Barth/ Stefanie Gänger/ Niels P. Petersson (eds.), Globalgeschichten. Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven (Campus Verlag, Globalgeschichte, 2014), 19–40. |
The Many Natures of Antiquities: Ana María Centeno and her Cabinet of Curiosities, Peru, ca. 1832–1874, in: Stefanie Gänger / Philip Kohl / Irina Podgorny (eds.), Nature and Antiquities. The Making of Archaeology in the Americas (Arizona University Press, 2014), 110–124. | |
[with Irina Podgorny & Philip Kohl] Introduction: Nature in the Making of Archaeology in the Americas, in: Stefanie Gänger / Philip Kohl / Irina Podgorny (eds.), Nature and Antiquities. The Making of Archaeology in the Americas (Arizona University Press, 2014), 3–20. | |
Curiosidades. La colección de Ana María Centeno en el Cuzco, 1832-1874, in: Miruna Achim / Irina Podgorny (eds.), Museos al detalle. Colecciones, antigüedades e historia natural, 1790–1870 (Prohistoria ediciones, 2013), 221–229. |
Academic Blog Posts |
[with Ricardo Castellón, Lea-Marie Trigilia], “…to be Cured of a Fever”. Guatemala, the San Juan Hospital’s Women’s Ward, and a World of Fevers, 1781-5, Blog of the FEVER project [forthcoming 2025]. |
Cinchona calisaya, Le Mans Musée vert, SciCoMove – Scientific Collections on the Move, 2023. | |
Variable Matters (Basel, 20-22 September 2019), organized by Barbara Orland and Stefanie Gänger, The Recipes Project, 2020. | |
Masdevall’s ‘Antipyretic Opiate’, or: A Well-Travelled Recipe, The Recipes Project, 2016. | |
Cinchona, A History. 1770–1820, 2015. | |
“A very secure recipe for the cure of all kinds of tertian and quartan fevers”: Medicine and Malaria in Late-Colonial Lima, The Recipes Project, 2014. | |
Radio, Newspaper, and Television Interviews |
GHIL Podcast with Pascale Siegrist & Kim König: „What is a Fever?“, 2025. | |
Jenny Sure und Stefanie Gänger im Interview mit Julia Lauer: „Scharlachfieber, Faulfieber, Frieselfieber: Die beiden Heidelberger Historikerinnen Prof. Stefanie Gänger und Jenny Sure erforschen Krankheiten im 19. Jahrhundert“, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung no. 266 (2024), 33. |
MOOC/ Vlog „El termómetro// Le thermomètre“. SciCoMove Project, Les Objets ont ont une histoire, 2024. | |
Interview: ‘Kein Leiden rafft mehr Menschen dahin als die Fieber’. Historikerin Stefanie Gänger im Blauen Salon, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 23 September 2024. | |
Podcast “Marsilius im Gespräch”, Episode 8 Phänomen Fieber, 27 March 2023. | |
Expert interview for Deutschlandfunk radio program (Aus Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften), on the „Cultural History of Cacao“, 24 January 2019. | |
Expert interview for Deutsche Welle, „Un aeropuerto amenaza a Machu Picchu“, 3 August 2019. | |
Expert interview for the ZDF/ARTE documentary Die Reise der Menschheit (2/3) - Fremde Welten, 6 May 2018. | |
Reviews |
Roger Cooter (Hg.), A Cultural History of Medicine. 6 vols. (Bloomsbury Academic 2024 [2021]), Journal für Kunstgeschichte [forthcoming 2025]. |
Holger Weiss (Ed.), Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (De Gruyter 2020), Historische Zeitschrift 317, no. 3 (2023), 493. | |
Reichhaltige Ideenwelt der frühen Neuzeit. Martin Mulsows ‘Überreichweiten. Perspektiven einer globalen Ideengeschichte’, Damals 7 (2023), 57. |
Mark Thurner and Juan Pimentel (eds.), New world objects of knowledge: a cabinet of curiosities (University of London, 2021), Colonial Latin American Review 32, no. 2 (2022), 289-290. | |
Raúl H. Asensio, Señores del pasado. Reflexiones sobre el «pacto patrimonial» peruano, Trama. Espacio de crítica y debate, 2021. | |
Molly A. Warsh, American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700, Winterthur Portfolio. A Journal of American Material Culture 53, no. 4 (2020), 269-270. | |
Mücke, Ulrich (Ed.): The Diary of Heinrich Witt. Leiden 2015 , H-Soz-Kult, 16 January 2018. | |
Matthew J. Crawford, The Andean Wonder Drug. Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 91 (2017), 133-134. | |
Gabriel Ramón Joffré, El Neoperuano: Arqueología, estilo nacional y paisaje urbano en Lima, 1910–1940, Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 2 (2016), 403-405. | |
Schell, Patience A.: The Sociable Sciences. Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile. New York 2013, H-Soz-Kult, 27 March 2015. | |
Anagnostou, Sabine: Missionspharmazie. Konzepte, Praxis, Organisation und wissenschaftliche Ausstrahlung. Stuttgart 2011, H-Soz-Kult, 2 July 2014. | |
Bleichmar, Daniela: Visible Empire. Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment. Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-05853-5, in: H-Soz-Kult, 25 October 2013. | |
Irina Podgorny: El sendero del tiempo y de las causas accidentales. Los espacios de la prehistoria en la Argentina, 1850–1910, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines 39, no. 2 (2010), 458-62. | |
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: The Conquest of History. Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Europäische Kulturgeschichte 19 (2010), 124–6. |
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra: Nature, Empire and Nation. Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Europäische Kulturgeschichte 18 (2008), 99–103. |
William Skuban: Lines in the Sand. Nationalism and Identity on the Chilean-Peruvian Frontier, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines 37, no. 2 (2008), 403–5. |
