Dr. Maria Rentetzi

History and Sociology of Science and Technology
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Associate Professor

Email: mrentetz@vt.edu

Qualifications

2003 Ph.D., STS,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,USA

2002 M.A., Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

1996 M.A., History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, NTUA, Greece

1991 B.Sc., Physics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Publications (Selected)

1. Tobacco Roads: Trade, Culture and the History of a Transnational Commodity, Melinda Plastas and Maria Rentetzi (eds), Advances in Historical Studies, forthcoming.
2. “Creating a Niche for Women Chemists in Cosmetics Industry” in Renate Tobies and Annette Vogt (eds) Women in Industry, Wissenschaftskultur um 1900, series, ed. Olaf Breidbach. 115-118. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2014)
3. Beyond the Academy: Histories of Knowledge and Gender Rentetzi, Maria, Christine von Oertzen and Elizabeth Watkins (eds), Centaurus, 2013: 55.
4. “Finding Science in Surprising Places: Gender and the Geography of Scientific Knowledge” (with Christine von Oertzen and Elizabeth Watkins) Centaurus, 55 (2013): 73-80
5. Beyond the Academy: Histories of Knowledge and Gender edited by Maria Rentetzi, Christine von Oertzen and Elizabeth Watkins,Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects, (second volume in 2013)
6. “Packaging Radium, Selling Science: Boxes, Bottles and Other Mundane Things in the World of Science”Annals of Science, 68, no 3 (2011): 375-399.
7. “ ‘Reactor is Critical’: Introducing Nuclear Research in Postwar Greece”ArchivesInternationales d' Histoire des Sciences,60, no164 (2010):137-154.
8. “Genre, politique et radioactivite: le cas de Vienne la rouge”Travail, Genre et Sociétés, (in French), 23 (2010): 127-146.
9. “The Tobacco Museum of the City of Kavala” Exhibit review,Technology and Culture, 2009, 50, no 3 (2009): 649-657.
10. “Gender, Science, and Politics: Queen Frederika and Nuclear Science in Postwar Greece”Centaurus, 51 (2009):63-87.
11. “Historiographical Perspectives on Networking in Physical Sciences,”Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects,edited by Rentetzi, Maria and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. 51 (2009). “Introduction: Gender and Networking in Physical Sciences”Centaurus, (2009) 51: 5-11.
12. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early Twentieth Century Vienna, (e-book, 2007, http://www.gutenberg-e.org/rentetzi) (New York: Columbia University Press, hardcover 2008).
13. “The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial in-house Research and the Commercialization of Science”Minerva, 46, no 4 (2008): 437-462.
14. “Configuring Identities Through Industrial Architecture and Urban Planning: Greek Tobacco Warehouses in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century”Science Studies, (special volume) Simon Guy & Albena Yaneva (eds)Understanding Architecture, Accounting Society, 21, no 1 (2008): 64-81.
15. “The Metaphorical Conception of Scientific Explanation: Rereading Mary Hesse”Journal for General Philosophy, 36, no 2 (2005): 377-391.
16. “Designing (for) a New Scientific Discipline: The Location and Architecture of the Institut für Radiumforschung in Early 20thCentury Vienna”British Journal for the History of Science,38, 3 (2005): 275-306.
17. “From Cambridge to Vienna: The Scintillation Counter in Female Hands”Nuncius:Annali di Storia della Scienza, 2 (2004):675-689.
18. “Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Interwar Vienna: The Case of the Institute for Radium Research”Isis, 95 (2004):359-393.
19. “The City as a Context of Scientific Activity: Creating theMediziner-Viertelinfin-de-siècleVienna”Endeavour,28, no 1 (2004): 39-44.
20. “From Technological Design to Political Technology of the Body: The Case of Radium Dial Painters”Women’s History Magazine,48 (2004):4-12.
21. “ ‘I want to look like a woman not like a factory worker’; Rose Rand: a Woman Philosopher of the Vienna Circle”, in M. Dorato, M. Rédei, M. Suárez (eds),European Philosophy of Science 2007, vol 1: 233-244 General Philosophy and Methodology of Science, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010).
22. “‘Scientist in the Picture’ Such As ‘Artist in the Picture’” in Anastasia Lada (ed.)The Picture of Scientist in Greece, 1900-1980, 113-138, (Thessaloniki: Aristotelian University Press and Thessaloniki Museum of Photography , 2007, in English and Greek).
23. “Tobacco Warehouse: a Lost Culture” in Kamilo Nolla (ed.)Kapnomagaza(Tobacco Warehouses),18-39 (Athens: Scandinavian Tobacco Hellas and Kastaniotis Press, 2007, in French, English, and Greek.

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