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  [### Elizabeth Lunbeck

 ](/elizabeth-lunbeck) <lunbeck@fas.harvard.edu>Chair, Department of the History of Science

Professor of the History of Science in Residence

 

 

 Elizabeth Lunbeck is a historian of the human sciences, specializing in the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and psychology. Throughout her career, she has been interested in the conceptual foundations of these disciplines as well as in the social... 

 

 

      ![Elizabeth Lunbeck speaking at microphone during symposium](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/After-Latour-9-22-23-24%20%281%29.jpg?h=ed7fb780&itok=VL1zlZys) 

 

 

 

   [### Brigid O'Connor

 ](/people/brigid-oconnor) <boconnor@fas.harvard.edu>Director of Administration and Operations

 

 

 

      ![Headshot of Brigid O'Connor 2026](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-04/Brigid%20headshot.jpeg?itok=nghacxFF) 

 

 

 

   [### Umar Agha

 ](/people/umar-agha) <agha@alumni.harvard.edu>

 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... 

 

 

      ![Umar Agha](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Umar_web.jpg?h=869562a4&itok=iyUK-SFE) 

 

 

 

   [### Hannah Ahlblad

 ](/people/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... 

 

 

      ![Black and White photo of Hannah outside on sidewalk](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-06/Ahlblad_Headshot.jpg.jpeg?h=20a8e290&itok=Vobq84rl) 

 

 

 

   [### Marc Aidinoff

 ](/people/marc-aidinoff) <maidinoff@fas.harvard.edu>Assistant Professor of the History of Science

 

 

 Areas of Research: History of Computing, Automation, and AI; Social Policy; Technology and Society; Science and Technology Studies; Historical Epistemology Marc Aidinoff is a historian of science, technology, and the state, as well as a public policymaker... 

 

 

      ![Marc Aidinoff](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Marc_Aidinoff.jpg?itok=ugKjhmH5) 

 

 

 

   [### Leena Akhtar

 ](/Leena-Akhtar) <akhtar@fas.harvard.edu>The Greater Us, Principal and Founder

 

 

 Research Interests: Trauma and PTSD; activism and clinical practice; The DSM; second wave feminism and violence against women. Leena Akhtar completed her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard University in 2017. Prior to this, she received an MA in... 

 

 

      ![akhtar.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/akhtar.jpg?itok=OWF3HFfo) 

 

 

 

   [### Eram Alam

 ](/people/eram-alam) <ealam@fas.harvard.edu>Associate Professor of the History of Science

 

 

 Areas of Research: History of Medicine, Race, and Migration; Political Economy of Care; Postcolonial Studies Eram Alam specializes in the history of medicine, with a particular emphasis on globalization, race, migration, and health during the twentieth... 

 

 

      ![Eram Alam](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/alam_0.png?itok=CDzgpglA) 

 

 

 

   [### Yaz Alfata

 ](/people/yaz-alfata) [yalfata@fas.harvard.edu ](<mailto:yalfata@fas.harvard.edu >)Faculty Assistant

 

 

 Yaz Alfata provides support to Professors Naomi Oreskes and Gabriela Soto Laveaga. 

 

 

      ![Yaz Alfata](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/yaz_-_department_website_photo.jpg?itok=fZz2wa2s) 

 

 

 

   [### Noam Andrews

 ](/people/noam-andrews) <na317@nyu.edu>New York University Gallatin Assistant Professor

 

 

 Research Interests: Early modern science; visual and material cultures of science; the interrelationship between science and architecture. Degrees: MRes., The London Consortium RIBA Part 3 (Postgraduate Diploma) AA Diploma, Architectural Association BFA... 

 

 

      ![andrews_noam1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/andrews_noam1.jpg?itok=Ph-uddam) 

 

 

 

   [### Tal Arbel

 ](/people/tal-arbel) <talarbel@fas.harvard.edu>

 Tal Arbel graduated from Tel Aviv University with an MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. From 2009-2012 she served on Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, teaching European social theory. During AY 2012-13, she was a Visiting... 

 

 

      ![arbel.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/arbel.jpg?itok=F1eudTg3) 

 

 

 

   [### Leah Aronowsky

 ](/people/leah-aronowsky) <aronowsk@illinois.edu>Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 Research Interests: History of modern life and environmental sciences; environmental history; The Anthropocene. Leah Aronowsky’s current research concerns the relationship between knowledge, material practices, and scale in the environmental sciences: how... 

 

 

      ![aronowsky.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/aronowsky.jpg?itok=Qyqkzwsz) 

 

 

 

   [### Katie Baca

 ](/Katie-Baca) <kbaca@fas.harvard.edu>

 Research Interests: Baca’s PhD research focused on the intersections of nineteenth century science and studies of women, gender, and sexuality. Katie Baca is a Preceptor in Harvard College’s Writing Program. In 2019, she received her PhD from Harvard’s... 

 

 

      ![baca.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hos/files/baca.png?itok=MgVuqMjP) 

 

 

 

  

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