Camps, Celine

Celine Camps is a Ph.D. student in the history of early modern science at Columbia University. Her research lies at the intersection of the history of science and technology, art, and material culture, and focuses on early modern craft and artisanal practice. She is especially interested in (German) metalworking.

Her dissertation focuses on securing screws, screw makers, and the screw-making industry in early modern Nuremberg and explores why, how, and to what effect goldsmiths began to develop and use screws—instead of or in addition to other fastening technologies and techniques—to assemble their works of art.

Publications

Camps, Celine. “Black Varnish for Armor,” in Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms.Fr. 640, ed. Making and Knowing Project, Pamela H. Smith, Naomi Rosenkranz, Tianna Helena Uchacz, Tillmann Taape, Clément Godbarge, Sophie Pitman, Jenny Boulboullé, Joel Klein, Donna Bilak, Marc Smith, and Terry Catapano (New York: Making and Knowing Project, 2020).

Camps, Celine, and Margot Lyautey. “Making and Knowing: Encoding Ms. Fr. 640,” in Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms.Fr. 640, ed. Making and Knowing Project, Pamela H. Smith, Naomi Rosenkranz, Tianna Helena Uchacz, Tillmann Taape, Clément Godbarge, Sophie Pitman, Jenny Boulboullé, Joel Klein, Donna Bilak, Marc Smith, and Terry Catapano (New York: Making and Knowing Project, 2020).

Education

Celine graduated cum laude from Maastricht University with a B.A. in Arts and Culture (majoring in Knowledge and Technological Culture). She holds a Master’s degree (cum laude) in the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities from Utrecht University and an M.A. and M.Phil. degree in History from Columbia University.

Experience

Before coming to Columbia, Celine worked at Sven Dupré’s research group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and the Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in The Hague.

From 2016 to 2019, she was a participant in Professor Pamela Smith’s Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University, as part of which she has helped transcribe, encode, and translate an anonymous sixteenth-century French technical-artisanal manuscript.

In 2019, she was appointed member of the Renaissance Society of America’s first Graduate Student Advisory Committee.

She is also a committee member of the Early Modern Metals Research Network (EMMRN).