Anna Echterhölter is member of the research group on cultural history within TOPOI, research Assistant of Iris Därmann, and teaches at the Institute of Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt-Universität. She studied Physics, Cultural History and Theory and German Literature at the Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and the Goldsmiths College London. In 2009 she finished her doctoral thesis “Schattengefechte – Genealogische Praktiken in Nachrufen auf Naturwissenschaftler 1710-1860 (Göttingen: Wallstein)”, for which she received scholarships from the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science. She is currently working on her professorial dissertation: Metrology – Scales and Situations of Justification since Antiquity. With the help of Daniel Schwarz she realized the podcast-site www.tonargumente.org, which provides talks given on the topics of the CSG-II.

Further information: www.culture.hu-berlin.de/ae