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