Faculty

Karuna Vikram

Research Interests: History of Technology; U.S. legal history; labor history; political economy. Karuna studies how technology, law, and society constitute each other. Her previous research examined how U.S. corporate leaders shaped international...

Daniel McAllister Volmar

Research Interests: History and philosophy of science; the relationship between mathematics and physics. Previous Degrees: BA., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Oriana Katharine Noor Walker

Previous Degrees: BA., Reed College PhD., History of Science, Harvard University

Molly Walker

Research Interests: History of science and medicine; modern Russian history; history of the Caucasus; Black Sea history; Georgian history; Soviet history; Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies; environmental history; history of empire; history of...

Deng-Tung Wang

Research Interests: The historical elements of the environmental movement. From a research question that explores social reception to behaviors that impact the environment, my goal is to find something that would spark another environmental movement and...

Jiemin Tina Wei

Research Interests: History of fatigue in the workplace,, in the U.S., in the first half of the 20th century. Jiemin Tina Wei completed a PhD in History of Science. Tina is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Florida International...

Nicolas Wey-Gomez

Professor of History, California Institute Technology

Benjamin Wilson

Associate Professor of History of Science

Areas of Research: History of Physical Sciences Benjamin Wilson is Associate Professor of History of Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of modern physics, the relationship between science and national security during the...

Elleen Xue

Research Interests: History of medicine; history of the body; medical humanities; global health; health policy. Elleen Xue is an A.M. student in the Department of the History of Science. Her research traces how medical concepts such as qi, humors, and...

Lev Xue

Research Interests: History of psychoanalysis; projective testing; psychoanalytic practice; delinquent children; normal children; longitudinal studies Lev Xue is writing about women (and occasional male psychologists) who were ethnographers and...

Anna (Anya) Yermakova

Research Interests: Intuition in mathematics; natural history; improvisation as a method for theorizing; Russian symbolism; artscience; experiential education. Previous Degrees: Bachelor of Music, Piano BA., Biological Sciences, Northwestern University...

Che Yeun

Research Interests: History of the body; history of medicine; consumer culture; affect; gender & sexuality; history of the Self. Che Yeun completed her PhD in History of Science. She is a historian of consumer culture and the human body. Her dissertation...