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 20th century transnational biomedicine with attention to postcolonial contexts. He completed his B.A. at Bowdoin College and an M.Phil at the University of Oxford.
Research Interests: Contested illness; patient experience/activism; medical epistemology; history of epidemiology; environmental health; medical sociology.
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.
Research Interests: Health foods and nutrition; history of medicine and public health; food studies; history of consumption and advertising; history of the life sciences.
Research Interests: History of public health; environmental history; science, technology, and society; science policy; history of biology and biotechnology. ... Read more about Colleen Lanier-Christensen
Research Interests: The relationship between gender, public health, and self-making during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States; the social conceptions of motherhood and childhood and their effects on public health policy and practice.
Research Interests: History of Medicine and Public Health; Black Studies; Critical Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Medical Humanities; Carceral Sciences; Biomedicalization; Reproductive Medicine; Psychiatry and Mental Health
Research Interests: The historical elements of the environmental movement. From a research question that explores social reception to behaviors that impact the environment, my goal is to find something that would spark another environmental movement and incite change among the population to rally for action against climate change by mobilizing people of the world to fight for environmental issues... Read more about Deng-Tung Wang