Associate Professor of History Studies

Catherine Abou-Nemeh is Lecturer in Early Modern History. Prior to joining Victoria University of Wellington in 2013, Catherine taught in the Department of History at Princeton University. She has also held visiting research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2008–2009); the Scaliger Institute, Leiden University (2009); and the Edward Worth Library in Dublin (2011). In 2012, She was Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. In 2016 she was a Visiting Scholar in the History Department at Harvard University. She has presented her research at universities around the world, including at Princeton, Harvard, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, Oxford, Sydney, Queensland and Auckland. She is completing a book manuscript on the Dutch natural philosopher and lens-maker Nicolas Hartsoeker (1656-1725).