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Isaiah Lorado Wilner is a historian of knowledge who specializes in cultural and intellectual history, cultural theory, media and material culture, the history of human science, and the environmental humanities. He is the author of a work of media history, The Man Time Forgot (HarperCollins, 2006), the editor of Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (Yale, 2018), and a recipient of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians. Wilner’s research uncovers the global interactions of state and nonstate knowledge systems, and he is now completing a book, developed from his dissertation at Yale, about the influence of indigenous knowledge on modern social thought. At the Stevanovich Institute, Wilner offers courses in entangled history; subjectivity and symbolism; body knowledge; multispecies knowledge; and history, memory, and modernity.


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