Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Early Botany and Indigenous Plant-Related Knowledge

博士论文研究改进补助金：早期植物学和本土植物相关知识

• 批准号: 2341907
• 负责人: Lawrence Principe
• 金额: $ 1.96万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2341907&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grant

This doctoral dissertation improvement grant supports a project in the history of botany. Specifically, it will examine intercontinental plant transfer during the early colonial period. It aims to use this critical period in the history of science to bring attention to how Indigenous people in the Hispanic world made key contributions to modern botany, as well as exploring how earlier societies dealt with the rapid influx of new information in an Information Age of their own. Many plants are familiar to global audiences, including marigolds from Mexico, citruses from China, lilies from South Africa, and many more. Most of these plants became familiar to global audiences only after the rise of the colonial empires, when regular cross-oceanic voyages made the transfer of plants, animals, people, and information around the world faster and easier than ever before. The results of this project will illustrate the many ways in which people have understood the natural world over time, recognizing the continued co-existence of multiple worldviews in different places. By providing public outreach based in the modern botanical garden, this project will help the public and students connect this period in history to the physical and intellectual world they live in today. In tracing the movement of plants and plant-related knowledge in the early modern Spanish empire, this project brings together archaeological, anthropological, and historical information to better understand how plants moved around the Atlantic. By comparing printed botanical texts with archaeological and documentary evidence about where plants were grown, this project provides new tools for investigating how people thought about plants outside official circles. This space-based method has potential for broader application in extending the history of science to include more groups who did not produce written works in the Western tradition.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项博士学位论文改进赠款支持植物学历史上的一个项目。具体而言，它将检查殖民时期早期的洲际植物转移。它的目的是利用科学史上的关键时期，以引起人们对西班牙裔世界中的土著人民如何为现代植物学做出关键贡献，并探索早期社会在自己的信息时代中如何处理新信息的快速涌入。许多植物对全球受众群体很熟悉，包括来自墨西哥的万寿菊，来自中国的柑橘，南非的百合花等等。只有在殖民帝国的兴起之后，当定期的跨偏见航行使世界各地的植物，动物，人和信息的传递比以往任何时候都更快，更容易）时，这些植物中的大多数才开始对全球观众熟悉。该项目的结果将说明人们随着时间的推移了解自然世界的多种方式，并认识到不同地方多种世界观的持续共存。通过在现代植物园提供公共宣传，该项目将帮助公众和学生将历史上的这一时期与他们今天所生活的物理和知识世界联系起来。在追踪植物和植物相关的西班牙早期帝国的运动时，该项目汇集了考古，人类学和历史信息，以更好地了解植物如何在大西洋周围移动。通过将印刷的植物文本与有关植物在哪里种植的考古和文献证据进行比较，该项目提供了新的工具来调查人们如何思考官方圈子外的植物。这种基于空间的方法具有更广泛的应用，可以在扩展科学史上包括更多在西方传统中创作书面作品的群体。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估值得支持。