James Delbourgo is professor of history at Rutgers University, where he teaches the history of science, collecting and museums, and the history of the Atlantic World. His most recent book is Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Harvard University Press, 2017; published by Penguin Books in the United Kingdom as Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane), which won the American Historical Association’s Leo Gershoy Award and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Louis Gottschalk and Annibel Jenkins prizes. His current research projects include a history of science in global perspective, entitled “The Knowing World,” and a history of the figure of the collector, entitled “Who is the Collector?”
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Dream of the Swimming Pool
James Delbourgo considers the ways we've looked at swimming pools over the years....
Scientific Rebirth
“Genesis 2.0” is a panoramic master class in the strange unmodernity of modern science....
No More EasyJet: On Bruno Latour’s “Où atterrir?”
In a new text by Bruno Latour, the French theorist discusses the politics of ecological denial and the global-local divide on both sides of the Atlantic....
Art is for Art Lovers: On Collecting Art for Love, Money and More
Triptych image: Nan Goldin, "Shroud"2013 ART COLLECTING, IT TURNS OUT, is for lovers. It’s not just that the ...
