Kelly J Whitmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly J Whitmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly J |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitmer |
| SIGNATURE | WHITMER K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sewanee: The University of the South |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4608-5759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Projects in the History of Knowledge
The Panama Canal, the silkworm, a sugar plantation, the South Sea Bubble, an industrial workschool: they may seem to have little in common, but these, and other disparate interventions from around the globe, share a common epistemology relating knowledge and power in a specific dynamic: the project. A category new to the early modern period that still structures the world around us, the project offers tools for the critical and historical analysi…
Youth, Happiness, and Institutional Projects in the Early Eighteenth-Century German Lands
The period of the project’s flourishing has long been recognized as one in which young people were increasingly viewed as a social group with distinct needs—such as protection from neglectful caregivers—certain weaknesses, and key strengths. With some exceptions, age has not figured centrally in ongoing work on the history of projecting that this special issue prioritizes. Yet project-makers were very interested in age and devised projects that w…
Singing the Resurrection
For many years now, the study of belief in Reformation history has continued to involve engagement with confessional histories, which, as Erin Lambert explains in her valuable study, often focus on doctrine and even ‘separate the content of belief from the circumstances in which it took shape’ (p. 5). Studies of the so called ‘confessionalization process’, a phrase associated with the work of historians Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling, are …
Kindheit und Emotion
‘The history of childhood has been, since its beginnings, a history of emotions and it still is’ (p. 1). So begins Claudia Jarzebowski’s impressive study of children’s Lebenswelten in early modern Europe, which originated as the author’s Habilitationsschrift in the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Indeed, this assertion—that the history of children and childhood is a history of emotions—is a crucial star…
Projects and pedagogical expectations
Many eighteenth-century projectors believed in the potential of pedagogy, including its ability to improve lives and to radically reconfigure the structure of society. Despite an obvious inability to predict how effective their projects would be if implemented, those who managed to gain the support of state leaders very frequently peddled educational reform schemes they expected would generate real improvements, including heightened abilities to …
Expectations and utility in eighteenth-century knowledge economies Notes and Records special issue introduction
Creating a sketch, a plan or a model for the future is often closely related to endeavouring to predict what it may yield. It is also a process that stabilizes contemporary portrayals of social realities, including those aspects understood as problems, or in need of improvement. As Sang-Hyun Kim and Sheila Jasanoff have shown in their work on ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’, frequently plans and ‘visions of scientific and technological progress’ act…
Imagining uses for things
There has been an explosion of interest in "innovation-oriented knowledge" and utility in early modern knowledge economies. Despite this, a healthy skepticism surrounding the category of "useful knowledge" persists, at least in part because of its association with intentional concealment. Helpful in many ways, this skepticism has fostered a tendency to overlook a variety of efforts to teach "useful knowledge" in the period: efforts that were anch…
Erzählweisen des Selbst
In an article she published in a special issue of German History on ‘The “Social Self” and Ego-Documents’ in 2010, historian Claudia Ulbrich observed that ‘the study of the history of the individual and the self, and the history of self-testimony have become established in different fields that only occasionally intersect. Researches into the history of the self tend to marginalize self-testimony’ (p. 297). Ulbrich is part of a cadre of historian…
The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community
Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific community and consisted of an elite school for the sons of noblemen. Yet, its reputation as a Pietist enclave inhabited largely by young people has prevented the organisation from being taken serio…
Rezension
The Unwanted Child
The Model that Never Moved
Argument By the year 1720, one could visit at least three large-scale wooden models of Solomon's Temple in the cities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Halle. For short periods of time, the Amsterdam and Hamburg Temple models were exhibited in London, where they attracted a great deal of attention. The Halle model, on the other hand, never moved from its original location: a complex of schools known today as the Francke Foundations ( die Franckesche Sti…
Eclecticism and the Technologies of Discernment in Pietist Pedagogy
Eclecticism and the Technologies of Discernment in Pietist Pedagogy Kelly J. Whitmer While the Franckesche Stiftungen (the Francke Foundations) of Halle/Saale are perhaps best known today as the institutional centre of German Pietism, throughout much of the eighteenth century they were widely regarded as a pedagogically innovative Schulstadt (or city of schools). The founder of this Schulstadt, August Hermann Francke (1663–1727), was many things …
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Eclecticism and the Technologies of Discernment in Pietist Pedagogy
Eclecticism and the Technologies of Discernment in Pietist Pedagogy Kelly J. Whitmer While the Franckesche Stiftungen (the Francke Foundations) of Halle/Saale are perhaps best known today as the institutional centre of German Pietism, throughout much of the eighteenth century they were widely regarded as a pedagogically innovative Schulstadt (or city of schools). The founder of this Schulstadt, August Hermann Francke (1663–1727), was many things …
The Model that Never Moved
Argument By the year 1720, one could visit at least three large-scale wooden models of Solomon's Temple in the cities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Halle. For short periods of time, the Amsterdam and Hamburg Temple models were exhibited in London, where they attracted a great deal of attention. The Halle model, on the other hand, never moved from its original location: a complex of schools known today as the Francke Foundations ( die Franckesche Sti…
The Unwanted Child
Rezension
The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community
Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific community and consisted of an elite school for the sons of noblemen. Yet, its reputation as a Pietist enclave inhabited largely by young people has prevented the organisation from being taken serio…
Erzählweisen des Selbst
In an article she published in a special issue of German History on ‘The “Social Self” and Ego-Documents’ in 2010, historian Claudia Ulbrich observed that ‘the study of the history of the individual and the self, and the history of self-testimony have become established in different fields that only occasionally intersect. Researches into the history of the self tend to marginalize self-testimony’ (p. 297). Ulbrich is part of a cadre of historian…
Imagining uses for things
There has been an explosion of interest in "innovation-oriented knowledge" and utility in early modern knowledge economies. Despite this, a healthy skepticism surrounding the category of "useful knowledge" persists, at least in part because of its association with intentional concealment. Helpful in many ways, this skepticism has fostered a tendency to overlook a variety of efforts to teach "useful knowledge" in the period: efforts that were anch…
Projects and pedagogical expectations
Many eighteenth-century projectors believed in the potential of pedagogy, including its ability to improve lives and to radically reconfigure the structure of society. Despite an obvious inability to predict how effective their projects would be if implemented, those who managed to gain the support of state leaders very frequently peddled educational reform schemes they expected would generate real improvements, including heightened abilities to …
Expectations and utility in eighteenth-century knowledge economies Notes and Records special issue introduction
Creating a sketch, a plan or a model for the future is often closely related to endeavouring to predict what it may yield. It is also a process that stabilizes contemporary portrayals of social realities, including those aspects understood as problems, or in need of improvement. As Sang-Hyun Kim and Sheila Jasanoff have shown in their work on ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’, frequently plans and ‘visions of scientific and technological progress’ act…
Singing the Resurrection
For many years now, the study of belief in Reformation history has continued to involve engagement with confessional histories, which, as Erin Lambert explains in her valuable study, often focus on doctrine and even ‘separate the content of belief from the circumstances in which it took shape’ (p. 5). Studies of the so called ‘confessionalization process’, a phrase associated with the work of historians Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling, are …
Kindheit und Emotion
‘The history of childhood has been, since its beginnings, a history of emotions and it still is’ (p. 1). So begins Claudia Jarzebowski’s impressive study of children’s Lebenswelten in early modern Europe, which originated as the author’s Habilitationsschrift in the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Indeed, this assertion—that the history of children and childhood is a history of emotions—is a crucial star…
Projects in the History of Knowledge
The Panama Canal, the silkworm, a sugar plantation, the South Sea Bubble, an industrial workschool: they may seem to have little in common, but these, and other disparate interventions from around the globe, share a common epistemology relating knowledge and power in a specific dynamic: the project. A category new to the early modern period that still structures the world around us, the project offers tools for the critical and historical analysi…
Youth, Happiness, and Institutional Projects in the Early Eighteenth-Century German Lands
The period of the project’s flourishing has long been recognized as one in which young people were increasingly viewed as a social group with distinct needs—such as protection from neglectful caregivers—certain weaknesses, and key strengths. With some exceptions, age has not figured centrally in ongoing work on the history of projecting that this special issue prioritizes. Yet project-makers were very interested in age and devised projects that w…
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)