Aleksandra Kaye

Aleksandra Kaye is a historian of knowledge and science currently affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany, where she works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Structural Change in the Technosphere. Her research explores the intersection of historical network analysis, discourse analysis, and environmental impacts of 19th-century scientific practices.

Research Interests

• Cross-cultural interactions in scientific knowledge production
• Transnational migration and its role in intellectual networks
• Environmental history of forest management and oil production
• Historical discourse analysis of media and scientific debates

Scientific Awards

• Freer Prize Fellow at the Royal Institution (2022)
• Exchange fellow in sociology at Yale University