Research Projects
Read about research projects conducted by scholars working with The Bakken´s collections (summaries provided by the scholars).
Jodey Castricano: Occult Subjects: Literature, Film, and Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth Cavicchi: Nineteenth Century Medical Induction Coils
Fiona Clark: Uses of the Periodical Press of the 18th Century and the Transmission of Scientific Ideas between the Old World and the New
Willem Hackmann: The History of Electricity and Its Images
Axel Helmstädter: Electricity in Biodynamic Drug Therapy
Tracey Holland: Artist
Rimako Itoh: The Decoration of the Cambron Speculum Manuscripts of Vincent of Beauvais
Jonathan Marshall: The Relation of Parascience to the Practice of the French fin de Siècle Neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot
Manuel Parra Garrido: Use of Electricity and Metals for treating Mental Disease before Introduction of Electroconvulsive Therapy
Linda Simon: Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-ray
Tom Tucker: Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and his Electric Kite Hoax
Ewa Wyka: Scientific instruments of the Jagiellonian University Museum
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