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Raj Sastry

Person

Research Interests: History of medicine; medical humanities; health policy; global health; public health; science & technology studies; technology & society. 

I completed A.B. and A.M. degrees in the History of Science and am now pursuing an M.D. at Weill...

Astrid Petropoulos

Person

Research Interests: History of biology; history of medicine; history of psychiatry; history of psychology; medical humanities; museum studies; public health; science policy.
 

Astrid Petropoulos completed an AM in the History of Science in May of 2025. Her...

John "Jack" Goulder

Person

Research Interests: History of psychiatry; history of diagnosis; medical anthropology; history of bioethics; philosophy of science; anthropology of ethics.

I completed an AM in History of Science in spring of 2025. I am a writer and medical doctor working...

Michelle LaBonte

Person
Research Interests: History of medicine; history of biology; history of technology; disability history

Alexandria (Alex) Soto

Person

Research Interests: History of surgery, science and technology studies, health inequity, medical education.

Alex completed an AM in History of Science degree and will return to Duke to complete an M.D. Broadly, Alex's research interests lie in the...

Gideon Lasco

Person

Research Interests: Medical anthropology; social medicine; global health; drug policy; politics of health; histories of medicine in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

Gideon Lasco completed an AM in the History of Science at Harvard University, in...

Alexis Hatch

Person

Research Interests: History of medicine; medical humanities; public health; science policy; philosophy of science; pedagogy and higher education.

Alexis Hatch completed her AM degree in Hisotry of Science and will attend Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...

Samira Daneshvar

Person

Research Interests: Philosophy of science; history of technology; history of environmental thought; history of the body; media studies; material culture; visual representation in science.

Samira Daneshvar is a PhD Candidate in History and Theory of...

Umar Agha

Person

Research interests: thought experiments; philosophy of physics; values in modeling and simulation

Umar is broadly interested in what happens when our most powerful theories reach their explanatory limits. In quantum mechanics, despite unprecedented...

Jane Zhang

Person

Research Interests: Ancient Chinese scientific and literary thought; media studies; poetics; homeotics; comparative literature; performance studies; history of the body.

Jane Zhang completed AM in History of Science in May 2022. She is interested in the...