- History of Science
- Media Studies
- Acoustic Media
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Viktoria Tkaczyk is a full Professor of Media and Knowledge in the Department of Media Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. She has held this position since 2018 and also serves as part of the teaching faculty for the International Max Planck Research School 'Knowledge and Its Resources.' She currently leads the DFG project 'Raw Materials of the Humanities: Material Provenances of Work Media' and co-leads the DFG-funded research group 'Applied Humanities: Genealogy and Politics' with Anke te Heesen. Her academic journey includes significant positions at prestigious institutions: she was Assistant Professor of Arts and New Media at the University of Amsterdam (2011-2014), a Dilthey Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and from 2015-2020 she headed the Max Planck Research Group 'Epistemes of Modern Acoustics' and the DFG-funded project 'Epistemic Dissonances: Objects and Tools of Early Modern Acoustics' at FU Berlin. She has also held visiting positions including a guest professorship at Princeton University (2023) and a fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (2024). Her research focuses on the intersection of media studies, history of science, and knowledge techniques in early modern and modern periods. She specializes in acoustic media, historical epistemology, and the relationship between media technologies and scientific practices. Her work examines how sound, architecture, and performance media shape knowledge production across disciplines. She has made significant contributions to understanding the history of acoustics, media archaeology, and the applied humanities. Her publications reveal a consistent focus on how sensory experiences, particularly auditory ones, become objects of scientific study and how media technologies mediate knowledge production. Her recent book 'Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900' (2023) explores interdisciplinary knowledge formation through sound. Her scholarly output demonstrates strong connections between media history, scientific practices, and sensory studies, with particular attention to the period from the early modern era to the twentieth century. Ernst Reuter Dissertation Prize (2008) Book Award of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (2012) Feodor Lynen Fellow at CNRS Paris Member of the Junge Akademie at Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Dilthey Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Professor Tkaczyk has supervised numerous research projects including the 'Sound & Science: Digital Histories' database, the 'Testing Hearing' project, and 'Thinking with Sound' research program. She has been instrumental in establishing interdisciplinary connections between media studies, history of science, and sensory studies, particularly through her leadership of research groups focused on acoustic media and knowledge formation. Her current work on wax as a resource in knowledge and media history continues her exploration of material foundations of intellectual practices.







