DR. SANDRA REBOK

DR. SANDRA REBOK
The Huntington Library / Spanish National Research Council
1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108, USA, Tel.: (626) 405-2100 x 2582
E-mail: [email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
Marie Curie Fellow (2013-2016), Huntington Library / Spanish National Research Council.
Grant awarded by the European Commission Research Executive Agency (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF)
Research Project: “Alexander von Humboldt and the Globalization of Science: Networks of Knowledge
between Germany and the United States in the 19th Century”.
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH CAREER
1987-1991
1992-1998
1998-2004
2005-2008
2008-2013
Diplom (BA & MA equivalent) in Social Pedagogy,Fachhochschule, Darmstadt, Germany
Magister (BA & MA equivalent) in Social Anthropology and Sociology, University of Heidelberg,
Germany. Includes:
1994 –1995
ERASMUS-scholarship for studies abroad. Universidad Pontifícia de
Salamanca in Madrid, Spain.
1995 – 1996
Research project on Spanish Americanism. Museo de América, Madrid,
Spain.
1996 – 1997
Année préparatoire du diplôme. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris, France.
PhD in Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Post-doctoral Contract, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Deputy Vicepresidency of Scientific Culture, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
RESEARCH LINES
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Alexander von Humboldt and the creation of scientific networks in Spain and in the United States
German scientific explorers in America and in Spain during the 19th century
History of Science and Atlantic History
Transfer of ideas and knowledge between Humboldt and Thomas Jefferson
German-Spanish as well as German-American scientific relationship
Humboldt and the exploration of the American West
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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ERASMUS-scholarship
Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation fellowship
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Spanish National Research Council, I3P pre-doctoral grant
Andrew W. Mellon Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard
University
Thomas Jefferson Foundation
European Commission Research Executive Agency, Marie Curie Grant
Del Amo Grant
BOOK PRIZE
Premio Nacional de Edición Universitaria for the edition of Alexander von Humboldt. Cosmos: Ensayo de una descripcion
fisica del mundo (prize for the best coedition with a private publisher, Spain, September 2012).
INVITED LECTURES
2004-2015: 41 invited lectures given in 11 countries (Europe, America, Asia, Australia)
RESEARCH STAYS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Center at the Academy of Science, Berlin, Germany; Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.), Mexico, D.F; Robert H. Smith International Center for
Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia; Max Planck Institute, History of Science
Department, Berlin, Germany; Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages, Sorbonne (Paris IV),
Paris, France; University of Hamburg, Historic Seminar, Germany.
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Co-curator of the exhibit Un viaje del espíritu: Alexander von Humboldt en España (2006-9: Berlin, Munich,
Bremen, Manchester, Londres, Viena, Madrid, Tenerife)
Coordination
of
the
commemorative
website
of
the
CSIC
on
Charles
Darwin
(http://www.darwin2009.csic.es/)
Scientific collaboration at the exhibit Mutis al natural. Ciencia y Arte en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (2009-2010:
Madrid, Valencia)
Curator of the exhibit La expedición Malaspina 2010 y las ciencias marinas en España (2010-12: Río de Janeiro,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Ciudad del Cabo, Perth, Santo Domingo, Sidney, Auckland, Honolulu y
Cartagena de Indias, Palma de Mallorca, Málaga)
Curator of the exhibit Traspasar fronteras: un siglo de intercambio científico entre España y Alemania (2010-12:
Sevilla, Barcelona, Ciudad Real, La Coruña, Valencia, Munich, Regensburg, Berlin)
Deputy Curator of the exhibit España explora: La expedición Malaspina 2010 (2012: Madrid, Spain)
Scientific director of the exibit España explora organized by Spain at the International Exposition in Yeosu,
South Korea (May-August 2012)
Curator of the exhibit “Oceanografía española: La expedición Malaspina 2010. Cambio global y
biodiversidad en el Océano”, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Tenerife (April 2013)
Scientific director of the documentary film “Una aventura en el océano. Malaspina 2010” (CSIC,
macarenafilms, 2011).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
REBOK S., Alexander von Humboldt und Spanien im 19. Jahrhundert: Analyse eines wechselseitigen
Wahrnehmungsprozesses. Frankfurt a.M.: Vervuert, 2006.
PUIG-SAMPER, M. Á; S. REBOK, Sentir y medir. Alexander v. Humboldt en España. Aranjuez: Doce Calles, 2007.
REBOK, S. (coord.), Traspasar fronteras: un siglo de intercambio científico entre España y Alemania. Madrid:
CSIC/DAAD, 2010.
REBOK, S. (ed.), Alexander von Humboldt. Cosmos: Ensayo de una descripcion fisica del mundo (introduction by
Sandra Rebok). Madrid: Los libros de la Catarata/CSIC, 2011.
PUIG-SAMPER, Miguel Ángel; REBOK, Sandra (ed.), España explora: La expedición Malaspina 2010. Exhibition
catalogue. Madrid, Barcelona: CSIC, FFBVA, AC/E, Ministerio de Defensa, Lunwerg, 2011.
REBOK, Sandra, Christian August Fischer: Cuadros de Madrid. Madrid: CSIC/Doce Calles, 2013.
REBOK, S., Jefferson and Humboldt: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment. Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2014.
REBOK, Sandra, “Karl von den Steinens völkerkundliche Studien im Xingú-Quellgebiet Brasiliens Ende
des 19. Jahrhunderts.” In: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, n. 39, Col.: Böhlau, 2002, p. 371-393.
REBOK, S., “Two Exponents of the Enlightenment: Transatlantic Communication by Thomas and
Alexander von Humboldt”. The Southern Quarterly, vol. 43, n. 4, 2006, Hattiesburg, p. 126-152.
Rebok, Sandra. “Adam Hammer and the Reform of Higher Medical Education in the United States: The
Creation of the Humboldt Institute in St. Louis .” In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American
Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2, edited by William J. Hausman. German Historical
Institute
REBOK, Sandra, “Thomas Jefferson and Germany: His travel experience, scientific and philosophical
influences”, Yearbook of German American Studies, 48, 2013, p. 1-23.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book project: “Humboldt’s Empire of Knowledge: From the Royal Spanish Court to the American
President’s House” (2016)

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