# Alumni ## expand\_more Erik Baker *Entrepreneurial: Management Expertise and the Reinvention of the American Work Ethic* (2022) Jordan Howell *Imperial Crucible: Alcoa and the Transimperial History of American Capitalism, 1888-1953* (2022) Kiran Kumbhar *Healing and Harming: The "Noble Profession" of Medicine in Post-Independence India, 1947-2015* (2022) Michelle Labonte *Diagnosing Uncertainty: Cystic Fibrosis, Disease Definitions, and Diagnostic Challenges in Medicine* (2022) Tiffany Nichols *Constructing Stillness: Theorization, Discovery, Interrogation, and Negotiation of the Expanded Laboratory of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory* (2022) Meg Perret *Gender, Sexuality, and Species in Biodiversity Discourse* (2022) Tasha Schoenstein *Computer Science on Campus: Technology, (Inter)Disciplinarity, and the Transformation of the American University* (2022) Jongsik Christian Yi *More-Than-People’s Communes: Veterinary Workers, Nonhuman Animals, and One Health in Mao-Era China* (2022) Brad Bolman *The Voyage of the Scientific Beagle: Dogs in the Physical and Biomedical Sciences* (2021) Deirdre Moore *The Heart of Red: Cochineal in Colonial Mexico and India* (2021) Gili Vidan *Trading on Trust: Cryptographic Authentication and Digital Decentralization in the United States, 1968–2000* (2021) Anya Yermakova *An Embodied History of Math and Logic in Russian-Speaking Eurasia* (2021) Jacob D. Moses *Medical Regret without Remorse: A Moral History of Harm, Responsibility, and Emotion in American Surgery Since 1945* (2020) Katie Baca *Beyond the University: Elite Bostonian Women’s Organizations as Sites of Science Learning, 1868-1910* (2019) Kathryn Heintzman *Keeping Economies Alive: Animals, Medicine, and the Domestication of the French Empire, 1761-1814* (2019) Devin Kennedy *Virtual Capital: Computers and the Making of Modern Finance, 1929-1975* (2019) Florin-Stefan Morar *Connected Cartographies: World Maps in Translation Between China, Inner Asia and Early Modern Europe, 1550-1650* (2019) Miriam Rich *Monstrous Births: Race, Gender, and Defective Reproduction in U.S. Medical Science, 1830-1930* (2019) Daniel Volmar *The Computer in the Garbage Can: Air-Defense Systems in the Organization of US Nuclear Command and Control, 1940-1960* (2019) Leah Aronowsky *The Planet as Self-regulating System: Configuring the Biosphere as an Object of Knowledge, 1940–1990* (2018) Cara Fallon *Forever Young: The Social Transformation of Aging in America Since 1900* (2018) Lisa Haushofer *Edible Health: Nutritional Consumer Products in Britain and the United States, 1850-1930* (2018) Danielle Inkpen *Frozen Icons: the Science and Politics of Repeat Glacier Photographs, 1887-2010* (2018) Ion Mihailescu *Graphical: The History of a Category* (2018) Evgeny Morozov *'A Bath of Continuous Sensations': Warren Brodey’s Quest for Human Augmentation and Intelligent Environments, 1955-1975* (2018) Eli Nelson *Making Native Science: Indigenous Epistemologies and Settler Sciences in the United States Empire* (2018) Yvan Prkachin *Wired Together: The Montreal Neurological Institute and the Origins of Modern Neuroscience, 1928-1965* (2018) Laura Lee Schmidt *Creating Common Schools: St. Louis, the American Speculative, and the Rise of Public Education* (2018) Joelle M. Abi-Rached *"The Dead Which Cannot Be Buried": War, Madness, and Modernity in the Levant, 1896-1982* (2017) Leena Akhtar *From Masochists to Traumatized Victims: Psychiatry, Law, and the Feminist Anti-Rape Movement of the 1970s* (2017) Connemara Doran *Seeking the Shape of the Universe: Confronting the Hyperbolic World, from Henri Poincaré to the Cosmic Microwave Background* (2017) Ardeta Gjikola *“The Finest Things on Earth”: The Elgin Marbles and the Sciences of Taste* (2017) Emily Harrison *Indicating Health: Leona Baumgartner, Global Development, and the Metrics of Infant Mortality (1950-1980)* (2017) Paolo Savoia *Men, Faces, and Pain: Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery* (2017) Jennifer van der Grinten *Researching the Body Electric in Interwar Europe: Psychoanalysis, Dialectical Materialism, and Wilhelm Reich’s Bioelectrical Experiments* (2017) Noam Andrews *Irregular Bodies: Polyhedral Geometry and Material Culture in Early Modern Germany* (2016) Tal Arbel *'The American Soldier' in Jerusalem: How Social Science and Social Scientists Travel* (2016) Megan Shields Formato *Keeping Economies Alive: Animals, Medicine, and the Domestication of the French Empire, 1761-1814* (2016) Oriana Walker *The Breathing Self: Toward a History of Respiration* (2016) Jérôme Baudry *The Order of Technological Knowledge. Crafting a New Language for Technology in France, 1750-1850* (2015) Margarita Boenig-Liptsin *Making Citizens of the Information Age: A comparative study of the first computer literacy programs for children in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, 1970-1990* (2015) Stephanie Dick *After Math: (Re)configuring minds, proof, and computing in the postwar United States* (2015) Yan Liu *Toxic cures: Poisons and medicines in medieval China* (2015) Christina Ramos *Bedlam in the New World: Madness, Colonialism, and a Mexican Madhouse, 1567-1821* (2015) Jenna Tonn *Museum, Laboratory, and Field Site: Graduate Training in Zoology at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1873-1934* (2015) For a complete list of PhDs awarded by the Department of the History of Science up to 2015, [download this PDF](/file_url/750). ## Graduate Office Science Center 371 **Office Hours:** By Appointment **Phone:** 617-495-9978 ![Alex Csiszar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hos/files/csiszar.png?itok=HHQVtyV5) **Alex Csiszar** Professor of the History of Science, Director of Graduate Studies **Phone:** 617-496-5184 ![Linda Schneider](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hos/files/schneider.jpg?itok=mP8XJc5Y) **Linda Schneider** Graduate Program Coordinator Department of the History of Science Cambridge, MA 02138 **Phone:** 617-495-9978 [linda\_schneider@harvard.edu](mailto:linda_schneider@harvard.edu)