Graduate Students
Hannah Ahlblad
hahlblad@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of physical sciences; history of technology; urban sociology; visual representation in science. Hannah Ahlblad is an A.M. student in the History of Science and PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Theory...
Juanita (Juanis) Becerra Sandoval
juanabecerra@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of computing; history of technology; history of the body; history of the senses, science & technology studies. Juanis is a Ph.D. candidate whose work examines histories of artificial intelligence, subjectivity, and the senses...
Ori Ben-Shalom
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of medicine; early modern science; intellectual history; European history; Italian history; The Enlightenment; enviromental history; epidemics; historical epistemology . Ori Ben-Shalom is a PhD candidate in the Department of...
Rory Brinkmann
rory_brinkmann@g.harvard.edu 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...
Malaya Caligtan-Tran
mcaligtantran@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Environmental history; history of empire; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Southeast Asian Studies; Asian American Studies; science and colonialism. Malaya Caligtan-Tran is a PhD student in American Studies. Their research...
Genevieve Dally-Watkins
genevieve_dallywatkins@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Infectious diseases; medicine and empire; disease ecology; planetary health; immunity; ecology; twentieth-century biology; soil science. Genevieve Dally-Watkins is a PhD candidate in the History of Science department. She works between...
Daniela Díaz Blancarte
ddiazblancarte@g.harvard.edu 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...
Tianyu Fang
tianyufang@fas.harvard.edu 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...
Erin Alexa Freedman
efreedman@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of biology; philosophy of science; history of technology & Industry; history of art, craft, and design; models & modeling practices; material culture; textiles. Erin Alexa Freedman is a PhD candidate in the History of Science...
Alex Garnick
agarnick@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of mathematics; pre-modern sciences; intellectual history; contemporary continental philosophy and social theory. Alex Garnick is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. He studies the history of...
Matt Goerzen
mgoerzen@g.harvard.edu 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...
Courtney Greer-Soliday (f.k.a. Gragson)
courtney_gragson@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Disability history; history of the body; early modern science; history of medicine; women and gender studies; science and religion; history of the book. Courtney is broadly interested in early modern disability and medicine. Her Master...
Alexandra Halberstam
ahalberstam@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Incarceration and health; medicine and social control; health justice; infectious disease; citizenship, migration and belonging; politics of memory. Alexandra Halberstam (she/her) is a MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and...
Abigail Higgins
abigailhiggins@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: H istory of medicine; feminist science studies; health and the environment . Abigail Higgins (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the History of Science Department. She is interested in the history of medicine and the environment through...
Kelsey Ichikawa
kelseyichikawa@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Anthropology of science; history of psychiatry; history of the human sciences; museum studies; Queer science studies; science & technology studies; social theory. Kelsey is a PhD student in History of Science at Harvard, with an...
Maud Jansen
mjansen@g.harvard.edu 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...
Elizabeth Karron
elizabethkarron@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of medicine; health and the environment; history of public health; history of biology Elizabeth Karron (she/her) is a PhD student in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She specializes in the modern history...
Max Kwass-Mason
mkwassmason@g.harvard.edu 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...
Charlotte Lai
charlottelai@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Global East Asia; environmental history; multispecies studies; history of biology and the natural sciences; historical ecology; cultural geography; global early modernity. My name is Charlotte Lai, and I graduated from the University...
Oliver Lazarus
olazarus@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Environmental history; history of capitalism; history of U.S. empire; animal history; history of technology; economic history; urban history; STS; the Anthropocene. Oliver Lazarus is a PhD candidate in the History of Science Department...
Vi Le
vle@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of experimentation in psychology; history of social psychology; history of cognitive psychology; history of neuroscience. I am immensely curious about experimentation and the experimental method. This is a broad interest that...
Ying Li
ying_li@fas.harvard.edu 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...
Przemyslaw Matt Lukacz
plukacz@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Environmental history, ethics and politics; science and international affairs; global history; critical histories of artificial intelligence; history of technology; philosophy of science; science and higher education in America...
Ashton Macfarlane
macfarlane@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of environmental monitoring; legal assimilation of biological and environmental data; history of 20th century biology; scientific collaborations between New Zealand and the United States; history of environmental, biological...
Rebecka Mähring
maehring@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of physics; labor history; material and visual culture; scientific visualizations; history of photography; history of technology; sociology of science; history of observation. Rebecka Mikaela Mähring is a PhD student in the...
Ben Maldonado
bmaldonado@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of medicine; history of biology; history of the body; history of sex, gender, and sexuality; age and aging studies; risk, prediction, and insurance; feminist science studies; history of eugenics. Ben Maldonado is a PhD...
Charlie Mayhew
cmayhew@fas.harvard.edu Research Interests: Early modern science; environmental history; history of environmental sciences; history of physical sciences; intellectual history; philosophy of science; science and religion. Charlie Mayhew is a PhD student and Presidential Scholar...
Eana Xuyi Meng
eanameng@g.harvard.edu 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...
Mateo Mauricio Montoya
Research Interests: History of political economy; history of administration; early modern science; Latin American history; European history; colonial knowledge systems; indigenous-European synthesis; history of quantification; Jesuit studies Mateo...
Francis Newman
francisnewman@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Histories of science, medicine, and technology in East Asia; environmental history; science and colonialism; Qing history; Taiwan studies. Francis is a PhD candidate in history of science. His work draws together histories of the...
Ana Luiza Nicolae
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of early modern mining and meteorology; fossil extraction technologies from the 17 th to the 21 st centuries; history of Earth and Environmental Sciences; climate mitigation technologies. Ana Luiza is a PhD candidate in history...
Osaremen Fortune Okolo
osaremenokolo@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: history of public health; history of medicine; United States history; contemporary health policy; sociopolitical studies; racial health disparities; reproductive justice. Osaremen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the...
Sri Sathvik Rayala
srayala@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Medieval and early modern history, South Asia, premodern sciences and technology, Āyurveda, transregional circulation of knowledge, and Indic intellectual traditions and texts (śāstras). Sri Sathvik Rayala is a Ph.D. student in the...
Anna Riley
ariley@fas.harvard.edu 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...
Aiden Sagerman
aidensagerman@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of mathematics; history of quantification; history of eugenics; history of the right; scientific internationalism; intellectual history. Aiden Sagerman studies the histories of mathematics, quantification, and race and eugenics...
Caleb Shelburne
cshelburne@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Ottoman history; history of the social sciences; history of knowledge transfer; history of gender and sexuality; history of race science; history of literature. Caleb Shelburne is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science...
Kaitlin Smith
kaitlinsmith@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of mind sciences, including psychology, psychiatry, and social work; social epistemology; agnotology; Critical Black Studies; decolonial and multicultural psychologies including Black Psychology; conceptions of intelligence...
Sal Suri
salinasuri@fas.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of technology; environmental history; aquatic history; ocean studies; science policy; environmental justice. Sal Suri is a settler from Dish with One Spoon treaty territory (Toronto, Canada). Their dissertation historicizes the...
Amalia Sweet
asweet@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: History of biology and biotechnology; history of biochemistry and molecular biology; history of medicine and biomedical research; history of therapeutics; history of disability. Amalia Sweet (she/her)is a PhD candidate in the History...
Karuna Vikram
kvikram@g.harvard.edu 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...
Molly Walker
mollywalker@g.harvard.edu 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...
Lev Xue
fallgesetz@gmail.com 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...
Elleen Xue
elleenxue@g.harvard.edu 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...
Nan Zhang
nanzhang@g.harvard.edu Research Interests: Global East Asia; history of science, medicine, and technology; environmental history; women and gender studies; history of knowledge; postcolonial science studies. Nan Zhang is a PhD candidate in history of science. She is broadly...
