Jonathan Galka

Dublin Core

Title

Jonathan Galka

Contributor

Coverage

Contributor Item Type Metadata

First Name

Jonathan

Surname or Business Name

Galka

Years Affiliated

2022 - 2023

Affiliation

Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
Harvard University

Birthplace

United States

Occupation

Visiting Research Fellow

Biographical Text

JONATHAN GALKA is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Currently based in Singapore as a visiting scholar, he has held appointments in the department of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College (2023–24), and the department of History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2022–23). He studies and teaches across the history of biology, geology, and speculative futures, with a particular focus on how the relationships between mineralogical and other resources and life in the deep ocean have been imagined, constructed, commodified, and governed between 1870 and the present. His work on these and related topics appears or is forthcoming in venues including Journal of the History of Biology, Social Studies of Science, Island Studies Journal, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, and the International Quarterly for Asian Studies. Since 2022, he has been affiliated with the research project CLIMATE CRISIS AND CULTURAL LOSS, through which he has been developing the Insurgent Seabed Archive as a way of countering dominant narratives of ocean exploration that take the seabed as a site for resource extraction, evidencing instead the deep sea as a place replete with contested social and political meaning.

Country of Practice

Contributor Type

Collection

Citation

“Jonathan Galka,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed February 14, 2025, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4620.

Item Relations

This Item Is Part Of Item: Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss