This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions. Focusing on gender and embodiment, the contributors analyse the situated performance of scholarly identity and its social and intellectual contexts and consequences. Disciplinary cultures, scholarly practices, personal habits, and a range of social, economic, and political circumstances shape the people and formations of modern scholarship. Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations is of interest to historians, sociologists, media and culture scholars, and all those with a stake in the personal dimensions of scholarship. An international group of scholars present original examinations of travel, globalisation, exchange, training, evaluation, self-representation, institution-building, norm-setting, virtue-defining, myth-making, and other gendered and embodied modes and mechanisms of scholarly persona-work. These accounts nuance and challenge existing understandings of the relationship between knowledge and identity.

Autorentext
Kirsti Niskanen is Professor Emeritus of History in the Department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden, and principal investigator of the Scientific Personae in Cultural Encounters project.
Michael J. Barany is Lecturer in the History of Science in the Science, Technology & Innovation Studies subject group at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhalt
1. Introduction: The Scholar Incarnate
Part I : Personae on the move

2. A Young Man's Game: Youth, Gender, Play, and Power in the Personae of Mid-twentieth Century Global Mathematics3. Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland: The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido4. Scholarly Persona Formation and Cultural Ambassadorship: Female Graduate Students Travelling between Belgium and the United States 5. A Woman in a Man Made World: Erzsebet Kol (1897-1980)
   Part II: Bodies on display

   6. Cut Out For Medicine: Anatomical Studies and Medical Personae in Fin-De-Siècle Finland 7. Gifts of Nature? Inborn Personal Qualities and their Relation to Personae 8. Scientific Persona Performance through Online Biographies and their Relationship to Historical Models
   Part III: Multiple Masculinities

   9. Immortal Beloved: Virtue, Death, and the Making of the Swedish Nineteenth-century Pedagogical Scholar10. The Whole Man: A Masculine Persona in German Historical Studies11. Wilhelm Wundt's Critical Loyalty: Balancing Gendered Virtues among Early Experimental Psychologists 12. The Scholarly Persona Embodied: Seclusion, Love, Academic Battles, and International Exchanges in the Shaping of a Philosophy Career.