Research Interests: History of medicine; early modern science; intellectual history; European history; Italian history; The Enlightenment; enviromental history; epidemics; historical epistemology.
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 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; philosophy of science and technology; representation in the sciences; media studies; visual and material culture; design history. ... Read more about Samira Daneshvar
Science Historian - Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council (NAS-NRC) Research Associateship
Research Interests: History and philosophy of modern physics and mathematics; astronomy and cosmology; energy resources; visualization practices; mathematical invention.
Research Interests: Marine exploration; living and nonliving marine resource frontiers; seabed infrastructures; speculative futures and scientific imagination; material culture of marine science;histories of biology and natural history; history of malacology; deep and evolutionary time; biological introduction and invasion; symbiosis.
Research Interests: The intersections of health and development, the global and the local, in the making and mediation of people, ideas, values, practices and materials. The focus of her current project is infant mortality.
Research Interests:History of biology; history of medicine; sex, gender, and identity in healthcare and medicine; feminist science studies; health and the environment.... Read more about Abigail Higgins
Research Interests: Environmental history; labor history; political economy, race and capitalism; science and technology; Caribbean history; U.S. in the world.
Research Interests: History of public health; environmental history; science, technology, and society; science policy; history of biology and biotechnology.
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
Research Interests: History of environmental monitoring; legal assimilation of biological and environmental data; history of 20th century biology; scientific collaborations between New Zealand and the United States; history of environmental, biological, and meteorological IGOs and cooperative ventures; history of ecology/phenology; history of wildlife conservation and animal welfare; history of carbon dioxide measurement.
