Research Interests: History of medicine; history of psychiatry; history of the modern Middle East; historiography; philosophy of history; postcolonial studies; global health.
Research interests: Expertise, state power, and policy; history of political ideas; intellectual history of meritocracy and talent; philosophy of science; ethics. ... Read more about Umar Agha
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...
Research Interests: Mexican history; Nahua history and culture; decolonization; parteras; epistemological history of plant medicine; femme technology; history of childbirth; ritual and magic.
Research Interests: History of technology and infrastructure; Latin American studies; postcolonial science studies; postcolonial, critical race, and queer theory; science fictions.
Research Interests: Performance validation/error assessment practices for automated and semi-automated inference systems where ‘gold standard’ truth data is difficult or impossible to obtain, the ways in which these practices have (and have not) evolved over time, how they privilege certain metrics over others (e.g. quantitative over qualitative, representative cases over edge cases), and how they reflect the valuation of different types of labor (e.g. coding vs. manual review) within the development community.
Research Interests: History of the biosciences; animal models, experimentation, and the production of similarity; aging; globalization of science and capital; military science and technology; continental philosophy.
Research interests: space history, history of aviation and aerospace technology; history of aerial and space archeology, Cold War, modern American history
Science Historian - Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council (NAS-NRC) Research Associateship
Research Interests: History and philosophy of modern physics and mathematics; astronomy and cosmology; energy resources; visualization practices; mathematical invention.
