The winners of the 8th edition of the DHST Dissertation prize are:
Luis Fernando BERNARDI JUNQUEIRA, “The Science of the Spirit: Psychical Research, Healthcare and the Revival of the Occult in a Modernising China, 1900–1949” (University College London, UK, directors: Vivienne Lo and Sonu Shamdasani)
Gianamar GIOVANNETTI-SINGH, “Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences“ (University of Cambridge, UK, directors: Dániel Margócsy and Simon Schaffer)
Daniel Said MONTEIRO “Monitored Connections: Transnational Nagasaki and the Circulation of Hybridized Cosmologies in Early Modern Japan (1630–1720)” (Université Paris Cité, France, directors: Annick Horiuchi and Catherine Jami)
Sajjad NIKFAHM-KHUBRAVAN, “The Reception of Ptolemy’s Latitude Theories in Islamic Astronomy“ (McGill University, Canada, directors: Robert Wisnovsky and Robert G. Morrison) — also awarded the İhsanoğlu Prize of the Turkish Society for History of Science