Yoav Levinson-Sela

Yoav is a History Ph.D. student specializing in Early Modern Europe. His research focuses on the relationship between the production of knowledge and the moral communities of knowers sustaining them, particularly in Northern German protestant universities and throughout the seventeenth- and eighteenth- centuries. More broadly, he is interested in the history of knowledge, the social and cultural history of science, the history of education, and the history of the book. Before coming to Stanford, he completed his Master's degree at Tel Aviv University, with a thesis on ordering scholarly knowledge and the moral critique of scholars in early eighteenth-century academic dissertations.