Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen

Forskning

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen er videnskabshistoriker. Hans forskning fokuserer på humanioras historie og universitetshistorie, fra 1600-tallet til i dag og på tværs af verden.  

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Cand.mag. Københavns Universitet (1999), ph.d. Freie Universität Berlin (2003) og dr. phil. Roskilde Universitet (2023). I perioder gæsteforsker, forskningsstipendiat og underviser ved universiteter og forskningsinstitutioner i Europa, Asien, Nord- og Sydamerika, herunder University of Chicago, Harvard University, École des hautes études en sciences sociales i Paris og Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte i Berlin.

Leder af Forskningsgruppen for Videnskabsstudier på Roskilde Universitet.

Bøger

Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning (Cambridge University Press, 2025). (Læseprøve)

Modern Historiography in the Making: The German Sense of the Past, 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2022). (Læseprøve)

(Anmeldelser: Journal of Modern History, Intellectual History Review, Global Intellectual History, International Network for Theory of History, Austrian History Yearbook, History of Humanities, Central European History, Choice, Francia, Historisk Tidsskrift, Journal of the Philosophy of History)

Antologier

Humaniora? En spørgende videnskabsteori (Samfundslitteratur, 2020). (Læseprøve)

(med Rens Bod), The Classics of the Humanities I: From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age, særnummer af History of Humanities, 2019.

(med Martin Mulsow og Helmut Zedelmaier), Christoph August Heumann (1681-1764): Gelehrte Praxis zwischen christlichem Humanismus und Aufklärung (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017). 

(Anmeldelser: History of Humanities, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, Francia, IFB)

Udvalgte artikler

"The Humanities in the Vocational University: On the Unity of Teaching and Research", Writing the History of the Humanities: Questions, Themes and Approaches, red. Herman Paul (Bloomsbury, 2022), 267-285.

"Virtues of History: Exercises, Seminars, and the Emergence of the German Historical Discipline, 1830-1900", History of Universities, 34, 1 (2021), 27-40.

(med Rens Bod) "The Forgotten Curriculum of the Humanities", History of Humanities, 4, 2 (2019), 219-227.

"Historien, tiden og fortiden: Om billedet af historieskrivningen i Oplysningstiden", Passage, 32, 78 (2017),  53-75.

"Scholarship as a Way of Life: Character and Virtue in the Age of Big Humanities", History of Humanities, 1, 2 (2016), 387-397.

"Relics of the Past: Antiquarianism and Archival Authority in Enlightenment Germany", Storia della Storiografia, 68, 2 (2015), 69-81.

"Private Übungen und verkörpertes Wissen: Zur Unterrichtspraxis der Geschichtswissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert", Akademische Wissenskulturen: Praktiken des Lehrens und Forschens vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne, red. Martin Kintzinger og Sita Steckel (Schwabe Verlag, 2015), 143-161.

“Inventing the Archive: Testimony and Virtue in Modern Historiography,” History of the Human Sciences, 26, 4 (2013), 8-26.

"The Language of Objects: Christian Jürgensen Thomsen's Science of the Past," Isis, 103, 1 (2012), 24-53.

"Exploring the Republic of Letters: German Travellers in the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720", Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions, red. Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier og Christopher J. Ries (Aarhus University Press, 2012), 101-122.

“Leopold Ranke’s Archival Turn: Location and Evidence in Modern Historiography”, Modern Intellectual History, 5, 3 (2008), 425-453 (Pris: 2009 Best Article Award fra Forum for History of Human Science).

“Christian Thomasius, Invisible Philosophers, and Education for Enlightenment”, Intellectual History Review, 18, 3 (2008), 319-336.

“Leopold von Ranke, la passion de la critique et le séminaire d’histoire”, Lieux de savoir: Espaces et communautés, red. Christian Jacob (Albin Michel, 2007), 462-482.

“How Germany left the Republic of Letters”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 65, 3 (2004), 421-432.