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Elleen Xue

Person

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...

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...

Anna Riley

Person

Research Interests: Artisanal practice and embodied knowledge; conservation studies and heritage sciences; history of technology and STS; glassmaking; anthropology of craft, tourism, and development; globalization and commodities; histories of expeditions...

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...

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...

Eana Xuyi Meng

Person

Research Interests: History of medicine; integrative practices of medicine; social history of medicine.

Eana is a MD student at Harvard Medical School and a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Science. She is committed to the dual practice of...

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...

Maud Jansen

Person

Research Interests: History of medicine; Aging and End-of-Life Care; postwar U.S. history; medicine in Europe, and postcolonial contexts; intellectual history; science and technology studies; history of the body; disability history.

Maud Jansen is a M.D...

Alexandra Fair

Person

Research Interests: Eugenic ideology, reproductive justice, African American history

Alexandra Fair is a doctoral student in African American Studies. She completed her A.M. degree History of Science in May of 2022. Her reserach examines the linguistic...

Rory Brinkmann

Person

Research Interests: History of medicine; postcolonial studies; science and race.

Rory Brinkmann is an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard GSAS's Department of the History of Science. He is interested in the social structuring of 21st and...