Dr. Catherine Brooke Penaloza Patzak, BA MA

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• Curriculum Vitae

  2012- present

  University of Vienna, Vienna, AT
  PhD candidate, dissertation: Instituting Anthropology: The Circulation of Scientists and Ethnographic Materials Between North America, Germany and Austria, 1883-1933. Advisors: o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mitchell Ash and o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Feest

   

  2011

  Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA
  M.A. in Material Culture, Masters Thesis: Hochverehrter Lieber Herr Professor, Contextualizing the Exchanges Between Aby Warburg and Franz Boas 1896-1928. Advisors: Dr. Aaron Glass and Dr. Peter Miller

   

  2002-2006

  Alfred University NYSCC, Alfred, NY, USA BFA, cum laude, minor in art history
• Awards

  • 2014-18: Austrian Academy of Sciences, DOC Fellowship, Vienna, Austria
  • 2017: Visiting Predoctoral Fellow, Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Department II, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016: ÖAW "Kommission Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften," database development grant
  • 2015 Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft, International Communication Travel Grant, University of Vienna, Konferenzteilnahme im Ausland travel grant
  • 2014: Visiting Scholar, Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, North American department
  • 2013: University of Vienna, Kurzfristige Auslandsstipendium American Museum of Natural History, Collection Study Grant
  • 2013: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) fellowship
  • 2012: Botstiber Institute for Austrian American Studies, research grant Bard Graduate Center, Alumni Travel and Research Grant
  • 2011: Bard Graduate Center, Eugenie Prendergrast Travel and Research Grant
  • 2008-2011: Bard Graduate Center, full tuition academic scholarship
  • 2009 Archival Projects Intern, American Museum of Natural History,
  • 2009: Anthropology Department, New York, NY, USA Organized, catalogued, and wrote biography for Boas 1943 Collection
  • 2006: Alfred University, travel grant
  • 2002-2006: Alfred University, Presidential Scholarship

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• Research Interests

  History of science, material culture, ethnology and anthropology, museum studies, intellectual migration, and economies of circulation 
• Projects

  From 2014-2018: "Instituting Anthropology: The Circulation of Scientists and Ethnographic Materials Between North America, Germany and Austria, 1883-1933” (http://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/brooke-penaloza-patzak) - Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; Head: Mitchell Ash
• Conference Organisation

  Panels organized:

  • 2014: Communicating Things, Things Communicating: New Perspectives in Material Culture and Indigenous Studies, 35th American Indian Workshop, Leiden, Holland
  • 2012: The Museum as a Forum during the 19th and 20th Centuries, 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria

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• Fellowships and Memberships

  • Komission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften, Working Group "Wissenschaft im Metropol," Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leader: Em. o. Univ. -Prof. Dr. Mitchell G. Ash
  • Working Group for the History of Scinece/Arbeitsgruppe für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, University of Vienna, Leader: a.o. Univ. -Prof. Mag. Dr. Marianne Klemun
  • Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, Key Research Area: Material culture