Jens Amborg

I am a PhD student in the Department of History of Science and Ideas.

I am interested in the history of science and medicine, environmental and animal history, and the French Enlightenment. My thesis focuses on theories and practices of animal breeding in eighteenth-century France. I examine how knowledge developed within the context of animal breeding shaped ideas about racial improvement of humans and other animals.

In October-December 2024, I am a visiting PhD student at Cambridge University.

• PhD student, University of Uppsala, 2020-
• Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher, Stanford University, 2022-23
• MA Histoire des sciences, des techniques et des savoirs, EHESS, 2020
• MPhil Economic and Social History, University of Cambridge, 2018
• Certificat en sciences sociales et humanités, Sciences Po Paris, 2017
• BA History of Science and Ideas, University of Uppsala, 2016