Lukas Rieppel
Biography
Lukas Rieppel recently began a new project about the deep history of the 1868 Treaty Lands. Working with Native collaborators on the Pine Ridge Reservation, he is researching traditional knowledge about fossils and other features of the region's natural landscape (especially Makosica, the White River Badlands). In addition, he is also documenting the role played by Earth sciences in colonizing of the northern Great Plains. His courses primarily focus on the history of science, the history of capitalism, and science and technology studies.
Publications
“Earth Science and Extractive Capitalism in the Age of Empire.” In Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, edited by Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, and Marco Tamborini, 1–24. Springer, 2023. [https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-92679-3_16-1]
“Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology,” co- authored with Yu-chi Chang, Isis, vol. 14, no. 114, pp. 725-746. [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/727563]
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2019. [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674737587]