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Catarina Madruga

@cmadruga.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher based in Berlin.
Working on the history of sourcing and accumulation of natural history collections, 19th-20th centuries, with emphasis on the interstices between histories of collecting and histories of environment and biodiversity.
Visiting Researcher at the History of Science Department, Technical University Berlin, and at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung.
Co-Editor with Déborah Dubald of the special issue "Situated Nature: Field Collecting and Local Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" published in the Journal for the History of Knowledge (2022).
I have previous experience in museum education, exhibition design, and as a curator of historical collections.
Co-founder of the Collection < > Ecologies Collective;
Co-convenor of the CHSTM Research Group "Collections Ecologies."
Interview with Sarah Pickman, for the Order of Multitudes website
Talk with Michael Robinson for the Time to Eat the Dogs podcast
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