Research Interests: History of medicine and science in and beyond Europe and America; history of chronic diseases such as heart diseases, neurological disorders and cancers, of therapeutics such as cardiology, cardiac surgery, and coronary revascularization, of neurology and neurosurgery, of specialty training and education, of global health, and of medical ethics in sub-Saharan Africa; and the origin of neurosurgery in the US
Research Interests: History of the biosciences; animal models, experimentation, and the production of similarity; aging; globalization of science and capital; military science and technology; continental philosophy.
Research Interests: History of natural history; colonialism in the Americas; collecting expeditions; paleontology and fossil hunting; interactions between scientists and indigenous people; subterranean spaces; deep time; animals and temporality.
Research Interests: History of science, technology, and engineering; public infrastructure and technology; state sponsorship of research and design; theory and epistemology of applied sciences; science-fiction and cultural acceptance of scientific and technological advance; technological fear; infrastructure studies; development studies; environmental justice; rural studies.
Research Interests: Environmental history; labor history; political economy, race and capitalism; science and technology; Caribbean history; U.S. in the world.
Research Interests: Science, technology, and society; colonialism and science; political influence; management of technology; history of psychology; psychological manipulation through science and technology.
Research Interests: History of the body; history of the mind; knowledge exchange and re/production; globalization of science and standards; media in science; Japan and empire.
Research Interests: History of earth sciences; environmental history; history of capitalism; settler colonial studies; U.S. Empire; Early American studies; Native American and Indigenous studies. ... Read more about Gustave Lester
Mateo is an Ashford Fellow and PhD student in the History of Science department. He is interested in government and its relations with political economic... Read more about Mateo Mauricio Montoya
Assistant Professor, American Studies, Williams College
Research Interests: Native science; indigeneity and science; science and nation building; intellectual decolonization movements; New Deal sciences; traditional ecological knowledge, history of anthropology and archeology; environmental history; postcolonial, feminist and queer theory; haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history; postcolonial material history and museum studies.
Research Interests: Histories of science, medicine, and technology in East Asia; material culture; science and colonialism; time and temporality; weather and disease.
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century Ottoman history; history of gender and sexuality; history of race; disability studies; travel and migration; science and literature; history of transportation