Dr. phil. Mag. rer. soc. oec. Jan Jakub Surman

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 2007-2012: PhD History, University of Vienna, Vienna
  • 2003-2007: Mag. phil., History, University of Vienna, Vienna
  • 2001-2006: Mag. rer. soc. oec., Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna

Research Interests

Political-historical epistemology; history of Central Europe; History of Eastern Europe; history of post-Soviet scientific transformation; history of history.

Teaching Practice

  • University of Vienna
  • University of Frankfurt

Membership in Editorial Boards

  • Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU / Studia Historiae Scientiarum (since 2015)
  • Nauka Polska: Jej potrzeby, organizacja i rozwój (since 2016)
  • Dějiny věd a techniky (since 2017)
  • Práce z dějin Akademie věd (since 2018)

Foreign Scholarships, Fellowships and Research Stays

  • 10/2017 – 8/2020: Visiting Researcher, Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • 10/2017-2/2018: Junior Research Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna
  • 4/2017 – 9/2017: Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt
  • 3/2015: Visiting Researcher, The Program in History of Science at Princeton University
  • 5/2014-3/2017: Postdoctoral researcher, Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe –Institute of the Leibniz Association, Marburg,
  • 1/ 2014 – 3/ 2014: Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Warsaw
  • 10/ 2012 – 10/2013: Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellow, Herder-Institute Marburg
  • 4/2012 – 5/2012: Post-Doc Fellow, Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts
  • 3/2011 – 8/2011: Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department I
  • 10/2010 – 2/2011: Visiting Scholar, Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Institute for History of Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) ()
  • 10/2009 – 7/2010: CAS/BMWF Research Fellow, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota
  • 2/2008 – 6/2008: MOEL Scholarship (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft) 
  • 3/2007 – 9/2009: PhD Scholarship at the Initiativkolleg “Sciences in historical Context”, Vienna
  • 7/2006 – 2/2007: Erasmus Scholarship (Paris IV, Sorbonne)

 

Most Important Publications

Books

  • Surman, Jan Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2018. ISBN 9781557538611, 9781557538376

Book Chapters

  • Surman, Jan Translating Positivism: Framing Positivism in Book Series in Czech and Polish, in: Jan Suman, Rocio G. Sumillera, Katharina Kuhn (eds.), Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020, pp. 145–168.
  • Surman, Jan Habsburg Education in the eyes of foreigners: Ludwik Tęgoborski and William Wilde. In Jan Arend (ed.). Science and Empire in Eastern Europe: Imperial Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th Century. Gottingen: V&R, 2020, pp. 55-76.
  • Surman, Jan How Romance Studies Shaped the Ukrainian Language and How the Ukrainian-Romanian Conflict Helped to Create Ladinian: A (Very) Entangled History of A-Political Science. In Anil Bhatti, Johannes Feichtinger, Cornelia Hulmbauer (eds.) How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference. New York: Springer, 2020, pp. 73-90.
  • Surman, Jan Eine Wissenschaft – eine Sprache? Nationalismus, Internationalismus und Übersetzung in den Wissenschaften in der Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918. In Aleksandra Nuč, Michaela Wolf (eds.). Das habsburgische Babylon, 1848–1918. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2020, pp. 84-98.
  • (with Johannes Feichtinger, Marianne Klemun, Petra Svatek) Wandlungen und Bruche. Wissenschaftsgeschichte als politische Geschichte: Einleitung, in: Johannes Feichtinger, Marianne Klemun, Petra Svatek, Jan Surman (eds.), Wandlungen und Bruche. Wissenschaftsgeschichte als politische Geschichte. Gottingen, V&R, 2018, pp- 13-20.
  • Surman, Jan. Peregrinatio Medica. Mobilitat von Medizinern in den Jahren 1848–1914 und die Konstruktion einer Hauptstadtuniversität: Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848–1955. In Daniela Angetter, Birgit Nemec, Herbert Posch, Christiane Druml und Paul Weindling (eds.), Strukturen und Netzwerke. Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848-1955. Vienna University Press | V & R unipress, 2018, pp.411-424.
  • Hofeneder, Philipp - Surman, Jan. Wissen Übersetzen: Schulbücher in der Habsburgermonarchie als Gegenstand translationswissenschaftlicher Forschung. In Dybaś, Bogusław, Kąkolewski, Igor (eds.). Lehrbucher fur den Geschichtsunterricht in Galizien. Wien: Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wissenschaftliches Zentrum in Wien, 2018, pp. 141-159.
    • Polish translation: Przetłumaczyć wiedzę – podręczniki szkolne w monarchii habsburskiej jako przedmiot badań przekładoznawczych, in: Dybaś, Kąkolewski (eds.) Szkolne podręczniki do nauki historii w Galicji, Wien: Polska Akademia Nauk. Stacja Naukowa w Wiedniu 2018, pp. 120-137.
  • Surman, Jan. The contexts of Early Polish Positivism, 1840-1900s. In: Feichtinger, Johannes - Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 239-272.
  • Feichtinger, Johannes - Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan. Introduction: Particularizing Positivism. In: Feichtinger, Johannes - Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 1-27.
  • Surman, Jan. Linguistic Precision and Scientific Accuracy: Searching for the proper name of “oxygen” in French, Danish and Polish. In MacLeod, Miles – Smirnova, Ekaterina - G. Sumillera, Rocio – Surman, Jan (eds.). Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 131-148.
  • Surman, Jan. Imperiale „go betweeners“: Jozef Dietl und Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk. In Buchen, Tim Buchen – Rolf, Malte (eds.). Elitekarrieren in den Vielvolkerreichen der Habsburger, Romanovs und Osmanen 1850–1918 // Elites and Empire: Imperial Biographies in Russia and Austria-Hungary (1850-1918). Berlin: De Gruyters, 2015, pp. 311–337.
  • Surman, Jan. Vom „akademischen Altersheim“ zur Spitzenforschungsanstalt? Mobilität der Wiener Professoren 1848–1918. In Ash, Mitchell G. – Ehmer, Joseph (eds.). Universität – Politik –Gesellschaft, (=650 Jahre Universitat Wien – Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert, Bd. 2). Gottingen, Wien: Vienna University Press, 2015, pp. 621-648.
  • Surman, Jan. Divided Space–Divided Science? Closing and transcending scientific boundaries in Central Europe. In Rayward, Boyd W. (ed.). Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque. Burlington-Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 69-84.
  • Surman, Jan. Zwischen Internationalisierung und Popularisierung: Visionen der tschechischen Sprache der Naturwissenschaften der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. In Ehlers, Klaas-Hinrich – Nekula, Marek– Niedhammer, Martina– Scheuringer, Hermann (eds.). Sprache, Gesellschaft und Nation in Ostmitteleuropa: Institutionalisierung und Alltagspraxis. Gottingen: V&R, 2014, pp. 131-154.
  • Surman, Jan – Fillafer, Franz L. Габсбургский девятнадцатый век? [Habsburg neunzehntes Jahrhundert?], in: Сдвижков, Д.А. [Denis Sdvizkov] (ed.), Изобретение Века. Проблемы и модели времени в россии и европе xix столетия. Moscow: Новое литературное обозрение, 2013, pp. 209-228. (Translation: Iaroslava Kravchenko)
  • Surman, Jan. Science and its publics. Internationality and National Languages in Central Europe. In Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 30-56.
  • Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan. The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe: An Introduction. In Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1-29.
  • Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič, Gerald. Ludwik Gumplowicz i jego socjologia. In Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010, pp. 9-82.
  • Surman, Jan. Gumplowicz i konteksty jego recepcji: Esej bibliograficzny, in: In Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa 2010, pp. 443-455.
  • Surman, Jan. „La decouverte du social.“ Ludwik Gumplowicz i francuskie nauki społeczne, in: In Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa 2010, pp. 471-482.
  • Surman, Jan. Du barbarisme et civilisation. Le conflit entre les etudiantes polonais et ruthenes en 1907 et sa construction journalistique. In Le Rider, Jacques– Raschel, Heinz (eds.). La Galicie (1772-1918) : histoire, societe, cultures en contact. Tours : Presses Univ. Francois Rabelais 2010, pp. 175-188.
  • Surman, Jan. Die Konformitat der Universitaten? Die Hierarchie der osterreichischen Universitaten in der späten Habsburgmonarchie und ihr Einfluss auf die Mobilitat der Hochschullehrer. In Motz-Linhart, Reinelde (ed.). Tagungsbericht des 25. Osterreichischen Historikertag, St. Polten, 16. bis 19. September 2008. Vienna: NO Landesarchiv und NO Institut fur Landeskunde Niederosterreich, 2010, pp. 468-479.
  • Surman, Jan. Cisleithanisch und transleithanisch oder habsburgisch? Ungarn und das Universitatssystem der Doppelmonarchie. In Lengyel, Zsolt K. – Nagy, Jozsef Zsigmond – Ujvary, Gabor (eds.). Osterreichisch-ungarische Beziehungen auf dem Gebiet des Hochschulwesens. Szekesfehervar, Budapest, 2010, pp. 235-252.
  • Surman, Jan. Die Figurationen der Akademia. Galizische Universitaten zwischen Imperialismus und multiplen Nationalismus. In Doktoratskolleg Galizien (ed.). (De-) Konstruktionen Galiziens. Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen:Studienverlag, 2009, pp. 17-40.
  • Surman, Jan. Kopie der Geschichte – Geschichte einer Kopie. In Brandstetter, Thomas – Rupnow, Dirk – Wessely, Christina Wessely (eds.). Sachunterricht. Fundstucke aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Wien: Locker-Verlag, 2008, pp. 262-268.

Editorships

  • Surman, Jan (ed.). Knowledge Interconnected: German-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in Modern History, Marburg: Verlag des Herder-Instituts, in print (appears Spring 2021).
  • G. Sumillera, Rocio – Kühn, Katharina – Surman, Jan (eds.). Translation in Science, Science in Translation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020.
  • Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard – Hüchtker, Dietlind – Surman, Jan (eds.). A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe, Special Issue of Stan Rzeczy/State of Affairs. 2019, vol. 17, no 2.
  • Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of (Eastern) Europe. Thematic section of Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne, vol. 49, 2019.
  • Feichtinger, Johannes – Klemun, Marianne – Svatek, Petra – Surman, Jan (eds). Wandlungen und Brüche. Wissenschaftsgeschichte als politische Geschichte. Gottingen, V&R, 2018.
  • Feichtinger, Johannes – Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Surman, Jan (ed.). Wissenschaft als Übersetzung? Translation und Wandel polnischsprachiger Wissenschaft im langen 19. Jahrhundert, Special issue of Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. 2016, vol. 65,no. 4.
  • MacLeod, Miles – Smirnova, Ekaterina - G. Sumillera, Rocio – Surman, Jan (eds.). Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions, New York: Routledge, 2016.
  • Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin - Haslinger, Peter (eds.). Concepts in Biology, Special Panel in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 48 B, 2014
  • Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin - Haslinger, Peter (eds.). Concepts in Focus: Nomadic Concepts, Contributions to the History of Concepts. 2014, vol. 9, no 2.
  • Surman, Jan – Klemens Kaps (eds.). Galicja postkolonialna: możliwosci i granice // Postcolonial or postcolonial? Post(-) colonial perspectives on Habsburg Galicia, Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne, vol. 42, 2012. Polish version: http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/journal/98722 ; English, German: https://www.academia.edu/15087613/_full_issue_Jan_Surman_Klemens_Kaps_Po... nial_Galicia_Prospects_and_Possibilities_Historyka_42_2012
  • Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • Surman, Jan – Gerald Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010.

Articles in Impacted Journals

  • Surman, Jan. Terminology between chemistry and philology: A Polish interdisciplinary debate in 1900? Centaurus, An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects. 2019, vol. 61, pp. 232–253.
  • Surman, Jan. Science and Terminology between Empires: Ukrainian Science in a search for its Language in the 19th century. History of Science. 2019, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 260-287.
  • Surman, Jan. University Scandals and the Public Sphere of Imperial Austria: Wahrmund and Zimmermann Affairs, European Review of History/ Revue europeenne d’histoire. 2019, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 428-452.
  • Surman, Jan. Wissenschaft als Übersetzung? Translation und Wandel polnischsprachiger Wissenschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eine Einfuhrung. Zeitschrift fur Ostmitteleuropaforschung 4/2016, pp. 484-506.
  • Surman, Jan. Übersetzung der Dialektik: Polnische nationale Philosophie von August Cieszkowski und Bronisław Trentowski als Übersetzung des deutschen Idealismus. Zeitschrift fur Ostmitteleuropaforschung. 2015, vol 65, no. 4, pp. 531-550.
  • Surman, Jan. The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge in the Late Habsburg Monarchy: Multicultural Perspectives on Imperial Scholarship. Austrian History Yearbook. 2015, vol. 46, pp. 397-398.
  • Surman, Jan. Paris-Wien-St. Petersburg oder Alger-Brno-Charkiv?: Wissenstransfer und die ‚composite states‘. in: Quaestio Rossica. 2015, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 98–118.
  • Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin - Haslinger, Peter. Introduction: Nomadic Concepts. Biological Concepts and Their Careers beyond Biology. Contributions to the History of Concepts. 2014, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1-17.
  • Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin - Haslinger, Peter. Nomadic Concepts in Biology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48 B, pp. 127-129
  • Surman, Jan. Центральноєвропейська історіографія і її постколоніальні повороти (postcolonial turns): русини, українці і міраж польської „цивілізації”,Схід-Захід. Історико-культурологічний збірник. 2012, vol. 16–17, pp. 232-246. (Translation: Iaroslava Kravchenko)
  • Surman, Jan. Symbolism, communication and cultural hierarchy. Galician discourses of language hegemony at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. 2012, vol. 42, pp. 151-174.
    • Polish translation: Symbolizm, komunikacja i hierarchia kultur: Galicyjski dyskurs hegemonii językowej początku drugiej połowy XIX wieku, Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. 2012, vol. 42, pp. 115-132.
  • Surman, Jan – Kaps, Klemens. Postcolonial or Post-colonial? Post(-)colonial Perspectives on Habsburg Galicia, Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. 2012, vol. 42, pp. 7-35.
    • Polish translation: (with Klemens Kaps) Galicja postkolonialna czy postkolonialnie? Postcolonial theory pomiędzy przymiotnikiem a przysłowkiem, Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. 2012, vol. 42, pp. 7-27.
  • Surman, Jan. Supranational? Die habsburgischen Universitaten im Spannungsfeld zwischen „republique des lettres“ und „republique des nations“. Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuchs „Moderne“. 2008, vol. 4, pp. 213-224.
  • Surman, Jan. Imperial, Kolonial, Hegemonial? Die Wissenschaften in der Habsburger-monarchie. Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit. 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 119-133.

Articles in other Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Cain, Friedrich – Hüchtker, Dietlind – Kleeberg, Bernhard - Surman, Jan. A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Stan Rzeczy/State of Affairs 2019, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 9-21.
  • Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard - Surman, Jan. The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of (Eastern) Europe. The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of (Eastern) Europe. Thematic section of Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 49, 2019, pp. 7-13.
  • Surman, Jan. Adolf Dygasiński als Übersetzer: Pädagogische Biographie zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur. OderÜbersetzen, Deutsch-polnisches Übersetzungsjahrbuch - Karl Dedecius Archiv / Polsko-niemiecki rocznik translatorski - Archiwum Karla Dedeciusa. 2016, vol. 5-6-7, pp. 64-76.
  • Gordin, Michael – Jan, Surman. Beyond the center: Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe and their histories An interview with Professor Michael Gordin conducted by Jan Surman. Studia Historiae Scientiarum. 2016, vol. 15, pp. 433-452.
  • Surman, Jan. Cyrkulacja, globalizacja, go-betweens: czyli jak pisać globalną historię nauki XIX wieku. Rozmowa z Kapilem Rajem. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. 2016, vol. 46, pp. 423-437.
  • Surman, Jan. Historyzowanie nauki lub jak nowe przychodzi na świat. Rozmowa z Hansem-Jorgiem Rheinbergerem. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne. 2014, vol. 44, pp. 51-65.
  • Surman, Jan. Entre indifference et transfert d’idees: la reception de la sociologie autrichienne en France avant la Premiere Guerre mondiale, in: Austriaca. Cahiers universitaires d'information sur l'Autriche. 2007, vol. 63, pp. 119-132.
  • Surman, Jan. Uniwersytety Galicyjskie w Monarchii Habsburskiej: Nacjonalizacja nauki i internacjonalizacja wiedzy. Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU. 2012, vol. 12, pp. 39-52.

Translations (selected)

  • Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Epistemologia Historyczna, Warsaw: Oficyna Naukowa 2016, 336 pp. (chosen articles by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger), German → Polish
  • articles of Mitchell Ash, Marva Elshakry, Kapil Raj, Karin Knorr-Cettina, fur Historyczna Epistemologia: Teksty Wybrane, Warsaw: IHN PAN, Aspra, in Vorbereitung. German&Englisch → Polish
  • Vyacheslav Artyukh, Elements of positivism in the Ukrainian philosophy and culture of the second half of the 19th century, Studia Historiae Scientiarum 16 (2017), 270-301, Ukrainian → English
  • Articles for Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa 2010, Deutsch, French → English
  • Articles for (ed. with Klemens Kaps), Galicja postkolonialna: możliwosci i granice, „Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne“, vol. 42, 2012, German, English → Polish