DHST announces winners of the 8th Dissertation Prize

We are happy to announce the winners of the 8th DHST Dissertation Prize (2025):

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

Together with the winners of the 7th edition of the prize, the laureates will present an overview of their dissertations in the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (Dunedin, New Zealand, 29 June-5 July 2025).