TAKATS Sean

Sean Takats is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University
and Director of Research Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for
History and New Media. His research focuses on early modern France, the
Enlightenment, and the digital humanities. At the Roy Rosenzweig Center
for History and New Media, Takats has co-directed Zotero, the popular
research software platform, since 2006. He has also led other projects
on text mining and the history of science. Takats is also currently
co-director of The Encyclopedia of Diderot and D’Alembert Collaborative
Translation Project, hosted at the University of Michigan. Takats is
author of The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2011). His current research extends his interest in
occupational expertise to the colonial world, where he explores the
practices of collecting and synthesizing a wide range of exotic
knowledge, ranging from botany to commerce to medicine. Takats received
his bachelor’s degree from Yale and his doctorate from the University of
Michigan. He has received fellowships and research grants from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Social Science
Research Council.
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