Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi

Biographical Note

Maria Rentetzi is one of a handful of scholars working at the intersection of science and technology studies, nuclear diplomacy, and gender. Her research focuses on two intertwined areas of inquiry: the investigation of the politically and historically situated character of technoscience and the critical examination of gender as a major analytic category in technoscientific endeavors. She is an affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (MPIWG) and was previously a guest professor at TU Berlin, a Silverman Professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and a professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She joined FAU in January 2021.

Rentetzi has been trained as a physicist at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received her MA in History of Science and Technology from NTUA, and a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, USA. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow and guest scholar at MPIWG and a Lise Meitner Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She has received multiple international awards for her scholarship, including the Gutenberg-e Prize of the American Historical Society and one of the most prestigious grants in Europe, the ERC Consolidator grant (HRP-IAEA, Grant agreement ID: 770548). Her ERC project focuses on the history of radiation protection and the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency in setting radiation standards after World War II. Through her ERC project, she currently leads the development of a new strand of research: Diplomatic Studies of Science. Rentetzi is a corresponding member of the International Academy of History of Science; a member of AcademiaNet (nominated by FWF as an excellent female researcher); a council member of IUHPST/DHST; former president of the Commission of Gender and Women in STEM of the IUHPST/DHST (2013-2021); and a founding member and treasurer of the Association of ERC Grantees. She was a scientific advisor to the Greek alternate minister of foreign affairs on science diplomacy (2017-2018), is a member of FAU’s excellence committee, and leads FAU’s internationalization strategy.

Rentetzi has published widely on the history of radioactivity and the nuclear sciences, on gender and science, and on Greece’s history of tobacco culture and technology. Her books include Trafficking Materials and Gender Experimental Practices (2007, Columbia University Press); Boxes: A Field Guide (co-edited with S. Bauer and M. Schlünder, 2020, Mattering Press); and Seduced By Radium: How Industry Commodified Science in the American Marketplace (Pittsburgh University Press, forthcoming). She has also curated 101 Notes on Oriental Tobacco, a museum exhibition on tobacco technologies and gender practices in processing tobacco in early twentieth-century Greece. She is currently working on a book called The Gender of Things (co-edited with Aida Bosch) about the ways epistemic and technological objects become gendered. Together with Emily Winterburn, she is also editing The Cosmos, the first volume of Gender, Colonialism, and Science (1750-1950): A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Primary Sources (Routledge), a major project in gender science studies directed by Donald L. Opitz and Banu Subramanian.

Research Interests

science, technology and gender studies
diplomatic studies of science
history and sociology of modern physical sciences
history of radiation protection
history of tobacco

International Publications

Rentetzi, Maria, ed. The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered. New York: Routledge, 2023. https://www.routledge.com/The-Gender-of-Things-How-Epistemic-and-Technological-Objects-Become-Gendered/Rentetzi/p/book/9781032459127#:~:text=The%20Gender%20of%20Things%20is,instrument—become%20a%20gendered%20object%3F
Rentetzi, Maria. Seduced By Radium: How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947066/.
Bauer, Susanne, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi, eds. Boxes: A Field Guide. Manchester: Mattering Press, 2020. https://www.matteringpress.org/books/boxes.
Rentetzi, Maria, and Spiros Flevaris. Tobacco: 101 Notes on Oriental Tobacco. Exhibition catalogue. Athens: Benaki Museum, 2014 [in Greek]. https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_publications&view=publication&id=3885&lang=en.
Rentetzi, Maria, ed. The Gender of Technology and the Technology of Gender. Athens: Ekkremes Press, 2012 [in Greek].
Rentetzi, Maria. The Space of the Scientific Laboratory, 16^th–20^th Century: Architectural and Sociological Perspectives. Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2010.
Rentetzi, Maria. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early Twentieth Century Vienna. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. The book has received 23 book reviews in international journals. E-book version (2007): http://www.gutenberg-e.org/rentetzi.
Rentetzi, Maria, ed. Women Pioneers in Radioactivity Research. Commission Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine of the IUHPST/DHST. Prague: Research Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities, 2003.
Rentetzi, Maria, ed. Greek translation of Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989). Athens: Katoptro, 2006.

Mattes, Johannes, Cécile Philippe, Maria Rentetzi eds. “Nuclear Research in Medicine after the Second World War” Medical History (accepted, expected 2025)
Rentetzi, Maria, and Donatella Germanese, eds. “Science Diplomacy on Display: Mobile Atomic Exhibitions in the Cold War.” Annals of Science 80, no. 1 (2023): 1–9 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2023.2166114.
Rentetzi, Maria, ed. “The Politics of Radiation Protection.” NTM: Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 30, no. 2 (2022): 125–35. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00048-022-00332-z.
Ito, Kenji, and Maria Rentetzi, eds. “The Co-production of Nuclear Science and Diplomacy: Towards a Transnational Understanding of Nuclear Things.” History and Technology 37, no. 1 (2021): 4–20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2021.1905462.
Rentetzi, Maria, and Kenji Ito, eds. “The Material Culture and Politics of Artifacts in Nuclear Diplomacy.” Centaurus 63, no. 2 (2021): 233–43. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1600-0498.12394.
Plastas, Melinda, and Maria Rentetzi eds. “Tobacco Roads: Histories of Technologies and a Transnational Economy.” Advances in Historical Studies 5, no. 2 (2016): 45–48. https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=65487.
Oertzen, Christine, Maria Rentetzi, and Elizabeth Watkins eds. “Finding Science in Surprising Places: Gender and the Geography of Scientific Knowledge. Introduction to ‘Beyond the Academy: Histories of Gender and Knowledge.’” Centaurus 55, no. 2 (2013): 73–80. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12018.
Rentetzi, Maria, and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt eds.“Gender and Networking in Twentieth-century Physical Sciences.” Centaurus 51, no. 1 (2009): 5– https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2008.00133.x.

Hennelund Nielsen, Aske, and Maria Rentetzi. “Setting Radiation Protection Standards: The First Radiology Congress in 1925” Medical Research Archives, Vol 12, No 6 (2024). doi:10.18103/mra.v12i6.5445
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Global Experiment: How the International Atomic Energy Agency Proved Dosimetry to Be a Techno-Diplomatic Issue.” NTM: Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 37, no. 1 (2021): 167– https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00048-022-00336-9.
Rentetzi, Maria, Flavio D’Abramo, and Roberto Lalli. “Diplomacy in the Time of Cholera.” Sociology of Science and Technology 12, no. 1 (2021): 34–41.
Kyrtsis, Alexandros-Andreas, and Maria Rentetzi. “From Lobbyists to Backstage Diplomats: How Insurers in the Field of Third-Party Liability Shaped Nuclear Diplomacy.” History and Technology 37, no. 1 (2021): 25–43. doi:10.1080/07341512.2021.1893999.
Rentetzi, Maria. “A Comment on Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection from a Historian of Science.” Cancer Studies and Therapeutics 6, no. 1 (2021): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.31038/CST.2021614.
Rentetzi, Maria. “With Strings Attached: Gift-Giving to the International Atomic Energy Agency and US Foreign Policy.” Endeavor 45, no. 1–2 (2021). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932721000090?via%3Dihub.
Rentetzi, Maria. “From Securing the State to Safeguarding the Atom: The Relevance of History to Nuclear Diplomacy.” Science Diplomacy Review 3, no. 1 (2021): 3–12.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Determining Nuclear Fingerprints: Glove Boxes, Radiation Protection, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.” Endeavor 41, no. 2 (2017): 39–50. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932717300169.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Packaging Radium, Selling Science: Boxes, Bottles, and Other Mundane Things in the World of Science.” Annals of Science 68, no. 3 (2011): 375–99.
Rentetzi, Maria. “‘Reactor is Critical’: Introducing Nuclear Research in Postwar Greece.” Archives Internationales d’ Histoire des Sciences 60, no. 164 (2010): 137–54.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Genre, politique et radioactivite: le cas de Vienne la rouge.” Travail, Genre et Sociétés 23 (2010): 127–46.
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Tobacco Museum of the City of Kavala.” Exhibition review. Technology and Culture 50, no. 3 (2009): 649–57.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gender, Science, and Politics: Queen Frederika and Nuclear Science in Postwar Greece.” Centaurus 51, no. 1 (2009): 63–87.
Rentetzi, Maria. “The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial In-house Research and the Commercialization of Science.” Minerva 46, no. 4 (2008): 437–62.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Configuring Identities through Industrial Architecture and Urban Planning: Greek Tobacco Warehouses in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.” In “Understanding Architecture, Accounting Society Science Studies,” edited by Simon Guy & Albena Yaneva, special issue of Science and Technology Studies 21, no 1 (2008): 64–81.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Constructing High Energy Physics in Postwar Greece: The Greek Atomic Energy Commission and the Center for Nuclear Research Democritus.” Neusis: Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 18 (2009): 88–110. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “When Science and Politics are Intertwined: Queen Frederika, the Nuclear Research Center Democritus, and the Postwar Greece” Contemporary Issues [Synchrona Themata] 104 (2009): 53–62. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Invisible Female Technicians in the Greek Nuclear Research Center Democritus” Kritiki 6 (2008): 47–69. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Mapping the History of Women in the Sciences.” Contemporary Issues [Synchrona Themata] 94 (2006): 50–61. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gender and the Physical Sciences: Educational Strategies for Undermining Gender Stereotypes,” Themes in Education [Themata stin Ekpaideusi] 7, no. 1 (2006): 97–120. Republished in Issues of Theory of the Natural Sciences, edited by Constantine Skordoulis (Athens: Topos, 2008), 129–50; History, Philosophy, and Didactics of Natural Sciences, edited by Constantine Skordoulis and Efthymios Nikolaidis (Athens: Greek Letters, 2005), 122–26. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “‘Radium Girls’: The Political Technology of the Female Body in the USA in the 1920s.” In “Social Body,” edited by Martha Michailidou and Alexandra Halkia, special volume of Dini (2005): 86–113. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Metaphorical Conception of Scientific Explanation: Rereading Mary Hesse.” Journal for General Philosophy 36, no. 2 (2005): 377–91.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Designing (for) a New Scientific Discipline: The Location and Architecture of the Institut für Radiumforschung in Early 20^th Century Vienna.” British Journal for the History of Science 38, no. 3 (2005): 275–306.
Rentetzi, Maria. “From Cambridge to Vienna: The Scintillation Counter in Female Hands.” Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza 2 (2004): 675–89.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Interwar Vienna: The Case of the Institute for Radium Research.” Isis 95, no. 3 (2004): 359–93.
Rentetzi, Maria. “The City as a Context of Scientific Activity: Creating the Mediziner-Viertel in fin-de-siècle” Endeavour 28, no. 1 (2004): 39–44.
Rentetzi, Maria. “From Technological Design to Political Technology of the Body: The Case of Radium Dial Painters.” Women’s History Magazine 48 (2004): 4–12.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Women Physicists in the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna, 1920–1938: A Statistical Report.” Soziale Technik 2 (2001): 9–12. Republished in PCNEWS 81 (2001): 15–17.
Rentetzi, Maria. “A Description and an Evaluation of an Experiment: Teaching History of Science in a Private Elementary and High School.” Contemporary Education [Synchrone Ekpaideusi] 98 (1998): 45–53. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Role of Teaching History of Science in High School.” Contemporary Education [Synchrone Ekpaideusi] 94 (1997): 79–82. [in Greek]

Freris, Loukas, and Maria Rentetzi. “‘One woman started it all’: Gendered Approaches to Governance of Knowledge in Postwar Greece.” In Governing Science and Technology, Governing Through Science and Technology: What Was at Stake for Women?, edited by Isabelle Lémonon- Waxin, Grégory Dufaud, and Valérie Burgos Blondelle. New York: Berghahn (expected 2024).
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gendering Things” In The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered, ed. Maria Rentetzi. 1-19. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World: Phantoms, Radioiodine Uptake Tests, and the IAEA’s Standardization Projects.” In The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered, ed. Maria Rentetzi. 65-83. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Creager, Angela, and Maria Rentetzi. “Sharing the ‘Safe’ Atom? The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Regulation Through Standardization.” In Living in a Nuclear World: Order, Knowledge, and Normalization, edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia, and Kyoko Sato, 111– New York: Routledge, 2021.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2022. “The Japanese Art of Bowing and the Nuclear Anthropocene.” Anthropocene Curriculum, April 22, 2022. https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution/the-japanese-art-of-bowing-and-the-nuclear-anthropocene.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Cardboard Box: The Politics of Materiality.” In Boxes: A Field Guide, edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi, 443– Manchester: Mattering Press.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Black-boxing Knowledge: Glass Dosimeters and Governmental Control.” In Boxes: A Field Guide, edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi, 481–92. Manchester: Mattering Press.
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Epistemology of the Familiar: A Hymn to Pandora.” In Boxes: A Field Guide, edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi, 35–44. Manchester: Mattering Press.
Rentetzi, Maria, and Efthymios Nikolaidis. “The Observatory of Athens during the Regime of Otto of Bavaria.” Online Compendium of Greek-German Relations, September 20, 2020. https://comdeg.eu/compendium/essay/99924/. [in Greek and German]
Rentetzi, Maria, and Spiros Flevaris. “Envisioning a New European Metropolis: The Athens Observatory, Greek Astronomy and the Imposed Path to Modernization.” In Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820–1940, edited by Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan, 16–36. London: Routledge, 2018.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gender and Science: An Adventurous Relation.” In Feminism in Greece, edited by Dina Vaiou, 161–76. Athens: Hellenic Parliament Foundation, 2018. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Creating a Niche for Women Chemists in Cosmetics Industry.” In Women in Industrial Research (Wissenschaftskultur um 1900), edited by Renate Tobies and Annette Vogt, 115–18. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2014.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2011. “Box.” In A Natural History of the 21^st Century for Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, edited by Safia Azzouni et al., 36–38. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2011.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Berta Karlik.” In European Women in Chemistry, edited by Livia Simon Sarkadi, 161–64. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2011.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Stephania Horovitz.” In European Women in Chemistry, edited by Livia Simon Sarkadi, 75–80. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2011.
Rentetzi, Maria. “‘I want to look like a woman not like a factory worker’: Rose Rand. A Woman Philosopher of the Vienna Circle.” In EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association, edited by Mauricio Suárez, Mauro Dorato, and Miklós Rédei, 233–44. Dordrecht: Springer.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Trafficking Materials in Tin Boxes, Glass Bottles, and Lead Cases: Radium in Early Twentieth Century Science, Medicine, and Commerce.” In Precarious Matters: The History of Dangerous and Endangered Substances in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries, edited by Viola Balz et al., 99–112. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2008.
Rentetzi, Maria. “‘Scientist in the Picture’ Such As ‘Artist in the Picture.’” In The Picture of Scientist in Greece, 1900–1980, edited by Anastasia Lada, 113–38. Thessaloniki: Aristotelian University Press and Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2007. [in English and Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Tobacco Warehouse: A Lost Culture.” In Kapnomagaza (Tobacco Warehouses), edited by in Kamilo Nolla, 18–39. Athens: Scandinavian Tobacco Hellas and Kastaniotis Press, 2007. [in French, English, and Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gender and Science.” In History and Philosophy of Science, edited by in Biron Kaldis, 187–98. Patra: Hellenic Open University, 2009. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Laboratory of High Energy Physics at Democritus (NRS): A Highly Gendered Space.” In History, Philosophy, and Teaching of Natural Sciences, edited by Dimitris Koliopoulos, 123–31. Patra: University of Patra, 2007. Republished in Issues of Science: History, Philosophy and Didactics of Physics, edited by Kostas Skordoulis et al. (Athens: Nisos, 2008), 87–96. [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gender and Science.” Introduction to the Greek edition of Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (1989), 19–43. Athens: Katoptro, 2006 [in Greek]
Rentetzi, Maria. “Women Radium Dial Painters as Experimental Subjects or What Counts as Human Experimentation.” In Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations, edited by Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio, 275–91. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004. Republished in NTM: Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 12 (2004): 233–48.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Feminist Epistemology: How a Case Study from History of Science Undermines Harding’s Standpoint Theory.” In Yearbook 2002 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, edited by Arno Bammé, Guenter Getzinger, and Bernhard Wieser, 103–19. Munich: Profil, 2002.

Rentetzi, Maria. “Introduction: Roundtable review on Elisabeth Roehrlich, Inspectors for Peace,” H-Diplo 22 January 2024, https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20018898/h-diplorjissf-roundtable-review-15-24-roehrlich-inspectors-peace
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century, by Jeffrey Womack. Technology and Culture 63, no. 4 (2022): 1230–32. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36341639/.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of David Holloway and Leopoldo Nuti. “Aspects of the Global Nuclear Order in the 1970s,” special issue of International History Review 40, no. 5 (2018). H-Diplo RJISSF, July 12, 2019. https://issforum.org/articlereviews/22-aspects.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of The Woman who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation, by Gayle British Journal for History of Science 52, no. 1 (2019): 176–78.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Analogies That Shape the Recent History of Radiation.” Review of Radium and the Secret of Life, by Luis Campos and Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation, by Timothy Jorgensen. Annals of Science 75, no. 1 (2017): 55–59. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2017.1395477.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr’s 1913 Trilogy Revisited, by Finn Aaserud and John Heilbron. Isis 106, no. 4 (2015): 972–73.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Women Scientists in America, by Margaret Rossiter. Centaurus 57, no. 1 (2015): 33–35.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Mad on Radium: New Zealand on the Atomic Age, by Priestley, Rebecca. H-Physical Sciences, September 2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/25318/reviews/43065/rentetzi-priestley-mad-radium-new-zealand-atomic-age.
Rentetzi, Maria, and Spyros Petrounakos. “Evocative Objects, Inner Histories and the Love Stories of the ‘Bricoleur.’” Review of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With; The Inner History of Devices; and Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, all by Sherry Turkle. ICON 18 (2012): 214–20.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration, by Michael Gorman. Isis 103, no. 3 (2012): 623–24.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of The Pleasure of a Surplus Income: Part-Time Work, Gender Politics, and Social Change in West Germany, 1955–1969, by Christine von Oertzen. Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 4 (2010): 211–13.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of More Than Pupils: Italian Women in Science at the Turn of the 20^th Century, by Valeria P. Babini and Raffaella Simili. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (2007): 517–18.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program, by Margaret Weitekamp. Annals of Science 63, no. 3 (2006): 383–85.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Gender & Technology: A Reader, by Nina E. Lerman, Ruth Oldenziel, and Arwen P. Mohun. Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 5, no. 10 (2005). http://www/sehepunkte.historicum.net/2005/10/5820.html.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy, by Ross Mullner. Science, Technology, and Human Values 26, no. 1 (2001): 106–08.
Rentetzi, Maria. Review of Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, by Peter Galison. The British Journal for the History of Science 33, no. 3 (2000): 369–71.

Rentetzi, Maria. „The postcolonial battle of tracking Russia’s diamonds.” Diplomatic Courier, June 1, 2024. https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/postcolonial-battle-tracking-russias-diamonds
Rentetzi, Maria. “Diplomacies in Plural: How Much Diplomatic Power Does Science Have?” DAAD Letter, (2)2023. https://www.letter-daad.de/de/science-diplomacy/diplomatien-im-plural/
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Male Business of Nuclear Diplomacy.” Nuclear Newswire, November 30, 2022. https://www.ans.org/news/tag-maria%20rentetzi/.
Rentetzi, Maria, and Spyros Petrounakos. “Frontline Health Diplomacy Must Incorporate Diplomacy and Ethics.” Diplomatic Courier, October 15, 2022. https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/frontline-health-diplomacy-must-incorporate-philosophy-and-ethics.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Why Scientific Sanctions Do Not Work.” Diplomatic Courier, May 31, https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/scientific-sanctions-do-not-work.
Patil, Kapil,and Maria “War in Ukraine Heralds a More Personalized and Politicized Science Diplomacy.” London School of Economics Research Online, August 12, 2022. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/116517/.
Rentetzi, Maria and Kapil Patil. “Ukraine War and the Abiding Hope of Science Diplomacy.” Diplomat Magazine, July 31, 2022. https://diplomatmagazine.eu/2022/07/31/ukraine-war-and-the-abiding-hope-of-science-diplomacy/.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Why Women Scientists Thrived at the Radium Institute in Interwar Vienna.” Vienna Quantum Café Blog, May 18, 2020. https://www.iqoqi-vienna.at/blogs/blog/why-women-scientists-thrived-at-the-radium-institute-in-interwar-vienna
Rentetzi, Maria. “Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Nuclear Diplomacies Workshop in Japan and Greece.” HSS Newsletter, January 2019: 9–12. https://cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.org/resource/resmgr/newsletter_archive/hss-nl-2019-vol48-n1-jan.pdf.
“The Japanese Art of Bowing as Part of Nuclear History.” Prisma Avgi Newspaper, October 1, 2019. https://www.avgi.gr/entheta/prisma/326023_i-iaponiki-tehni-tis-ypoklisis-os-ptyhi-tis-istorias-tis-aktinoprostasias. [in Greek]
“Living with Radiation: Safety Culture and Standardization.” Prisma Avgi Newspaper, October 1, 2019. https://www.avgi.gr/entheta/prisma/326024_zontas-me-ti-radienergeia-i-nootropia-asfaleias-kai-i-politiki-tis.
“How Well do We know Radiation? An Interview with the Director of the Greek AEC.” Prisma, October 1, 2019. https://www.avgi.gr/entheta/prisma/326020_poso-kala-gnorizoyme-tis-aktinobolies.
Rentetzi, Maria. “A Diplomatic Turn in History of Science or How a 2 Million Euro European Research Council Grant Offers New Perspectives on the History of Radiation Protection.” HSS Newsletter, January 2018: 12–14. https://cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.org/resource/resmgr/newsletter_archive/hss-nl-2018-vol47-n1-jan.pdf.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Living with Radiation or Why we Need a Diplomatic Turn in History of Science.” Kjemi 6 (2017): 21–24. http://www.kjemidigital.no/dm/6-2017/21/.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Mme Curie and ‘the Perils in Radium’: The Early Days in Radiation Protection.” Physics Today, November 7, 2017. http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20171107a/full/.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Teaching and Advising in Feminist Literature: Why a Bra Makes me Think that We have a Long Way to Go.” HSS Newsletter, July 2017: 11–12. https://cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.org/resource/resmgr/newsletter_archive/hss-nl-2017-vol46-n3-july.pdf
Rentetzi, Maria. “Going Postal: When Radiation Dosimeters Got into a Box.” Mapping Ignorance, June 13, 2014. http://mappingignorance.org/2014/06/13/going-postal-radiation-dosimeters-got-box/.
Rentetzi, Maria. “The Box: Commonplace Artifacts in the Production of Scientific Knowledge.” Backchannels: Blog of the Society for Social Studies of Science, April 18, 2016. https://www.4sonline.org.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Gender in Science and Technology: An Introduction.” Pyrforos 7 (2003): 109–11. [in Greek]

“Lexikon of Chemical Elements: Plutonium. Kate Brown and Maria Rentetzi.” Interview by Monika Halkort. Radiokolleg, Ö1, August 22, 2022 (radio interview).
“Wissenschaftsdiplomatie.” Interview by Boris Mijat. alexander: Neues aus der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität 119, no. 2 (2022): 8–10. https://www.stgs.fau.de/files/2022/11/Rentetzi_Alexander_Nov.-2022.pdf.
“Fem Ciencia? Dones, Practiques Commemoratives I Cultura Cientifica.” Interview by Mar Rivera Colomer, April 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLePfrKeAMY.
“Was halten Sie von Sanktionen? ‘In der Forschung waren sie überstürzt.’” Interview by Anna-Lena Scholz. Die ZEIT, June 10, 2022. https://www.zeit.de/2022/24/wissenschaft-diplomatie-russland-krieg-maria-rentetzi?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F. [in German]
“Science Diplomacy.” Interview by Deborah Steinborn. ZEIT Campus, July 18, 2022. [in German]
“A Woman in Science Needs to Always Prove Herself.” Interview by Mariniki Koliaraki. 3Point Magazine, May 29, 2019. https://3pointmagazine.gr/μαρία-ρεντετζή-μια-γυναίκα-στην-επισ/. [in Greek]
“New Era of Science Diplomacy, Especially Nuclear Diplomacy.” Interview by Vasiliki Michopoulou. Euroscientist, February 21, 2019. https://www.euroscientist.com/new-era-of-science-diplomacy-especially-nuclear-diplomacy/. [in Greek]
“Bras and Kitchens: What Gender Has to Do with Technology.” Interview by Natassa Karathanou. Athenian News Agency, March 2, 2018. http://www.amna.gr/macedonia/article/235472/Soutien-kai-kouzines-Ti-schesi-echei-to-fulo-me-tin-technologia. [in Greek]
“Maria Rentetzi on Science Diplomacy.” Interview by Vasilis Lolidis. Athenian News Agency, September 9, 2017. http://www.amna.gr/macedonia/article/178088/I-MRentetzi-gia-ti-sunuparxi-epistimis-kai-diplomatias-ston-20o-aiona. [in Greek]
“Why Do You Rarely Find Women Engineers? Interview with Maria Rentetzi.” Interview by Christina Galanopoulou. LIFO, November 22, 2016. http://www.lifo.gr/articles/woman_articles/121523. [in Greek]
“The Life of Marie Curie.” Interview by Werner Kiefer. ARD-alpha, February 2016 (TV-documentary).
“Theory on Air: Ideas and Concepts.” Discussion with philosophers of science Aristides Baltas and Aristides Arageorgis, November 23, 2013. https://left.gr/news/8i-ekpompi-tis-theoria-ston-aera-me-thema-pros-ti-oi-fysikes-epistimes-sto-kokkino-1055. [in Greek]
“Verdammte Strahlkraft: Geschichte des Umgangs mit Radioaktivität.” Interview by Ilse Huber August. Radiokolleg, Ö1, August 31, 2011.

Greek Publications

Rentetzi, Maria. 2012. The Gender of Technology and the Technology of Gender. Athens: Ekkremes Press.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2010. The Space of the Scientific Laboratory, 16th–20th century: Architectural and Sociological Perspectives. Iraklio: Crete University Press.

Schiebinger, Londa. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. Translated and edited by Maria Rentetzi. Athens: Katoptro, 2006.

Rentetzi, Maria. 2009. “Constructing High Energy Physics in Postwar Greece: The Greek Atomic Energy Commission and the Center for Nuclear Research Democritus.” Neusis: Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, vol. 18: 88–110.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2009. “When Science and Politics are Intertwined: Queen Frederika, the Nuclear Research Center Democritus, and the Postwar Greece.” Contemporary Issues [Synchrona Themata] vol. 104: 53–62.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2008. “Invisible Female Technicians in the Greek Nuclear Research Center Democritus.” Kritiki, vol. 6: 47–69.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2006 “Gender and the Physical Sciences: Educational Strategies for Undermining Gender Stereotypes.” Themes in Education [Themata stin Ekpaideusi] 7, no. 1: 97–120. Republished in Issues of Theory of the Natural Sciences, Kostas Skordoulis (ed.), 129–50, Athens: Topos, 2008. Republished also in History, Philosophy, and Didactics of Natural Sciences, edited by Kostas Skordoulis and Efthymios Nikolaidis, 122–26. Athens: Greek Letters, 2005.
Rentetzi, Maria. “Mapping the History of Women in the Sciences.” Contemporary Issues [Synchrona Themata] 94 (September 2006): 50–61.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2005. ” ‘Radium Girls’: The Political Technology of the Female Body in the USA in the 1920s.” Dini (special issue), Martha Michailidou and Alexandra Halkia (eds.), Social Body, Athens, 86–113.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2003. “Gender in Science and Technology: An Introduction.” Pyrforos, vol. 7: 109–11.
Rentetzi, Maria. 1998. “A Description and an Evaluation of an Experiment: Teaching History of Science in a Private Elementary and High School.” Contemporary Education [Synchrone Ekpaideusi] vol. 98: 45–53.
Rentetzi, Maria. 1997. “The Role of Teaching History of Science in High School.” Contemporary Education [Synchrone Ekpaideusi] vol. 94: 79–82.

Rentetzi, Maria. 2018. “Gender and Science: An Adventurous Relation.” In Conceptualizations and Practices of Feminism: Beyond the Period of Political Transition, in Dina Vaiou and Aggelika Psara,105-120, Athens: The Hellenic Parliament Foundation.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2009. “Gender and Science.” In History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Biron Kaldis, 187–98. Patra: Hellenic Open University.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2007. “The Laboratory of High Energy Physics at Democritus (NRS): A Highly Gendered Space.” In History, Philosophy, and Teaching of Natural Sciences, edited by Dimitris Koliopoulos, 123–31. Patra: University of Patra, 2007. Republished in 2008, Issues of Science: History, Philosophy and Didactics of Physics, Kostas Skordoulis, et al. (eds), 87–96. Athens: Nisos.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2006. “Gender and Science.” Introduction to the Greek edition of The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science by Schiebinger, Londa, 19–43. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), Athens: Katoptro.

Rentetzi, Maria. 2019. “The Japanese Art of Bowing as Part of Nuclear History.” Prisma, September, vol. 15: 3.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2019. “Living with Radiation: Safety Culture and Standardization.” Prisma, September, vol. 15: 4-5.
Rentetzi, Maria. 2019. “How Well do We know Radiation? An Interview with the Director of the Greek AEC.” Prisma, September 2019, vol.15:7.

Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi

Biographical Note

Research Interests