# PhD Alumni ## expand\_more Ori Ben-Shalom *Fevers in the Archive: Medicine and Historical Practice in Enlightenment Italy* (2026) Taylor Coplen *Building Between the Blocs: Engineering Non-Alignment in Cold War Cambodia* (2026) Oliver Lazarus *Domesticating Empire: American Power and the Industrialization of Life* (2026) Mateo Montoya *Godly Government: The Arts of the Good Life on the Jesuit-Guaraní Missions in Colonial Paraguay, 1609–1795* (2026) Caleb Shelburne *Knowing Ottomans: Transnational Social Science and the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire* (2026) Emma Broder *“The Anatomy of the Epidemic”: Contested Illness Outbreaks in US Medicine and Public Health, 1934-2020* (2025) Anna Christensen *The Living Fossil Record: Crafting Time and Place Through Natural Historical Narratives of Persistence and Extinction* (2025) Jonathan Galka *In the Nodule Provinces: A History of the Ocean that Minerals Promised* (2025) Nayanika Ghosh *Nature and Nation: Sociobiology and the Emergence of Feminist Science Critique in the Postwar United States* (2025) Aaron Gluck-Thaler *The Pattern Recognizers: Surveillance, Security, and the Making of Identity in 20th Century America* (2025) Jamie Marsella *Beyond Better Babies: Religion and Eugenic Maternalism in Progressive Era Child Welfare Reform* (2025) Beatrice Steinert *Multicellular Media: Visual Practice in Developmental Biology, 1860-Present* (2025) Tina Wei *When Workers Won’t Work: How Scientists, Employers, and Social Reformers Understood and Sought Remedies for Industrial Fatigue and Other Workplace Afflictions, 1910-1940* (2025) Iman Darwish *Fire, Air, Water, and Earth: Elements, Mixtures and Natural Bodies between Arabic Medicine and Natural Philosophy* (2024) Max Ehrenfreund *The Economic Calculus: Accounting and Social Thought in Modern Central Europe* (2024) Colleen Lanier Christensen *Toxic Rules: Chemical Regulation, International Trade, and the Epistemic Consequences of Standardized Practices* (2024) Udodiri Okwandu *Madness and Motherhood in Black and White: Racial Logics in Medical Responses to Maternal Mental Illness and Deviance in the United States, 1890–1970* (2024) Kat Poje *Killing with Kindness: Ethics, Technology, and the History of Animal Euthanasia in the United States, 19th Century-Present* (2024) Christopher Rudeen *"Furs, Feathers, Frippery": Dress and the Sciences of Subjectivity* (2024) Alexis Turner *Lost Souls Delivered: The Political Life of LSD in the 1950s and 1960s* (2024) Che Yeun *Finishing Touch: Technology, Sensation, and the Modern American Body, 1880-1970* (2024) Alyssa Botelho *Ghost Hospitals: A History of Rural Hospitals and Efforts to Keep Them Alive in the 20th Century United States* (2023) Hannah Conway *How Infrastructures Age: Engineering, Nature, and Environmental Justice on the Lower Mississippi* (2023) Shireen Hamza *Islam and Medicine in the Medieval Indian Ocean World* (2023) Gustave Lester *Mineral Lands, Mineral Empire: Mapping the Raw Materials of US Industrial Capitalism, 1780-1880* (2023) Angélica Márquez-Osuna *Innovation in the Tropics: The Persistence of Beekeeping Knowledge in the Yucatan Peninsula, 1780-1950* (2023) Aaron Van Neste *Prophets of Plenty: How Scientists Ignored Natural Complexity and Overpromised Sustainable Fisheries, 1863-Present* (2023) 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](https://history.princeton.edu/people/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](https://www.jongsikchristianyi.com) *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](http://jdmoses.com) *Medical Regret without Remorse: A Moral History of Harm, Responsibility, and Emotion in American Surgery Since 1945* (2020) Katie Ana 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](https://history.wisc.edu/people/kennedy-devin) *Virtual Capital: Computers and the Making of Modern Finance, 1929-1975* (2019) [Florin-Stefan Morar](https://harvard.academia.edu/FlorinStefanMorar) *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](https://www.leaharonowsky.com) *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](http://lisahaushofer.com) *Edible Health: Nutritional Consumer Products in Britain and the United States, 1850-1930* (2018) [Danielle Inkpen](https://mta.ca/directory/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 Swayngim](http://connemaradoran.com) *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 *Writing the Atom: Niels and Margrethe Bohr and the Construction of Quantum Theory* (2016) Oriana Walker *The Breathing Self: Toward a History of Respiration* (2016) [Jérôme Baudry](https://people.epfl.ch/jerome.baudry/?lang=en) *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](https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/history/faculty/faculty-directory/liu-yan.html) *Toxic Cures: Poisons and Medicines in Medieval China* (2015) [Christina Ramos](https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/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 in History of Science up to 2025, [download this PDF](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1tC5Mz9grdrleg-pSDqyB2pzLoCojdM05). 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