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Professor Vera Keller, Norman H. Brown, Jr. Faculty Fellow at the University of Oregon, specializes in the intersections of the history of science with the history of knowledge, ignorance, and political/economic thought. She is affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences (Humanities school) and serves as Membership Chair and a Board Director of the Renaissance Society of America.
- Books: Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725 (2015), The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023), Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century (2024)
- Current Project: Superability (Disability History of the Renaissance)
Her research spans colonial epistemic dynamics, the co-production of experimental reason with statecraft, and the institutionalization of academic disciplines. Articles focus on topics like Drebbel’s self-regulating oven, Baconian desiderata, and chymical intelligencers.
Scientific Awards:
- Gordan Prize (Renaissance Society of America)
- Gershoy Award (American Historical Association)
- Snow Prize Shortlist (North American Conference of British Studies)
She co-edits the De Gruyter series Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History and contributes to journals like Isis. Funding includes fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, ACLS, and Guggenheim.
