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Ying Li

Person

Research Interests: Cold War science and technology; technoscientific modernity; agrarian studies; political ecology; multispecies relations; scientific institutions; work, labor, and technology in everyday life; modern China.

Ying is a PhD student in the...

Tianyu Fang

Person

Research Interests: Cybernetics and computing; history of the social sciences; technology in the global Cold War; postsocialist China.

Tianyu M. Fang is a writer and researcher. He is a PhD student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard...

Daniela Díaz Blancarte

Person

Research Interests: Transnational circulation of expertise; plastics industries, housing innovation and development; Cold War science and technology; history of architecture; design history and material culture.

Daniela Díaz Blancarte (she/her) studies the...

Karuna Vikram

Person

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...

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...

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...

Max Kwass-Mason

Person

Research Interests: History of computing; urban history; legal history; labor history.

Max Kwass-Mason is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science Department.  His research centers on the intersection of computing, municipal government, and the rule...

Matt Goerzen

Person

Research Interests: History of computer security; expertise and legitimacy; media manipulation; securitization; STS; global history.

Matt Goerzen is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. His dissertation...

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...