Stefanie Gänger

Stefanie Gänger is Professor of Modern History at the University of Heidelberg. She holds an MPhil and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge and completed her BA in History at the Universities of Augsburg and Seville. She has held visiting fellowships and professorships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Sciences Po. Stefanie’s work considers the histories of science, collecting, and medicine in late-colonial and early Republican Spanish America, as well as the wider (Atlantic) world. Her first book, Relics of the Past – on antiquarianism in nineteenth-century Andean South America – was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Her second book, which came out with Cambridge University Press in 2020, is an account of how medical knowledge was shared between and across a wide range of geographically disperse and socially diverse societies within or tied to the Atlantic World between 1751 and 1820.