University of Colorado Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Bio

Gabriel Finkelstein teaches courses in Modern Germany, Modern Europe, History of Science, and History of Exploration. He is currently completing a biography of the physiologist and essayist Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896) and is planning a book on German scientific exploration. His research concerns the role of science in nineteenth-century German society.

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver, 2006-present
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver, 1999-2006
Lecturer, Princeton University, 1998-1999
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997-1998

University of Colorado President's Fund for the Humanities, Spring 2000, Fall 2001, and Fall 2005

University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award, Spring 2002

Volkswagen Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Göttingen University, 1997

SSRC Fellowship, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free
University of Berlin, 1990-1991

DAAD Fellowship awarded, 1990-1991

Select Publications

"Emil du Bois-Reymond versus Ludimar Hermann." Comptes Rendus Biologies 329, nos. 5-6 (May-June 2006): 340-347.

"M. du Bois-Reymond Goes to Paris." British Journal for the History of Science 36, no. 3 (September 2003): 261-300.

"Romanticism, Race, and Recapitulation."
Science 294, no. 5549 (7 December 2001): 2101-2102.

"'Conquerors of the Künlün'?: The Schlagintweit Mission to High Asia, 1854-57."
History of Science 38, pt. 2, no. 120 (June 2000): 179-218.

Courses Taught

Hist 4029: Age of Anxiety
Hist 4030: Europe during the World Wars
Hist 4034: Core Themes in European History
Hist 4062: Modern France
Hist 4071: Modern Germany
Hist 4074: Postwar Germany
Hist 4503: History of Nuclear Weapons
Hist 4621: Travel and Exploration
Hist 4839: History Seminar
Hist 6931: Graduate Readings in European History