Cameron Brinitzer

Biography

Cameron Brinitzer is a historian and anthropologist of science. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Department II: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His research focuses on the history of science and the politics of universities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Brinitzer will work on his first book, The Evolution of Culturalism: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary. Combining archival and ethnographic research, the project examines the history of the Central European University as a lens on the politics of science and culture in the wake of the Cold War and liberalization.

Brinitzer completed his Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science at University of Pennsylvania. He holds an M.A. in anthropology and an M.A. from the Graduate Program in International Affairs from The New School for Social Research.

This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University