Interessi di ricerca
- Technologies of Vision
- Scientific Illustrations
- Print Culture
- Representations of Nature
- Visual Epistemology
Curriculum vitae
Pamela Mackenzie is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British
Columbia in the department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Her
work explores visual epistemology, technologies of vision, and
representations of nature in seventeenth century scientific
illustrations. In 2019, she conducted archival research for her
dissertation at the Royal Society as Lisa Jardine grant awardee and was a
visiting researcher at Lincoln University's School of History and
Heritage under the supervision of Dr. Anna Marie Roos. Her work is
additionally supported through the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is currently at the Bibliotheca
Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in a predoctoral
position in the research group "Visualizing Science in Media
Revolutions" lead by Sietske Fransen. While at the Hertziana, she will
be working towards the completion of her dissertation,
Microscope/Macrocosm: Early Modern Technology, Visualization and
Representations of Nature, specifically on the different
conceptualizations of the microscopic world as represented in the
illustrations of Marcello Malpighi and Nehemiah Grew.