Columbia Society of Fellows Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) Columbia
Research Interests: History of medicine; history of psychiatry; history of the modern Middle East; historiography; philosophy of history; postcolonial studies.
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: 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: space history, history of aviation and aerospace technology; history of aerial and space archeology, Cold War, modern American history
Research Interests: History and philosophy of modern physics and mathematics; astronomy and cosmology; energy resources; visualization practices; mathematical invention.
Research Interests: The intersections of health and development, the global and the local, in the making and mediation of people, ideas, values, practices and materials. The focus of her current project is infant mortality.
