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.
Research Interests: Biomedicalization; health and illness; medical humanities; medical epistemology; history of medicine; history of biology; feminist science studies.
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.
Research Interests: Medicalization and racialization of social deviance in the context of mental health/psychiatry; social, economic, and political factors in society's understanding of disease; race and the history of medicine.
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
Research interests: Modern China; modern Vietnam; North Korea; socialism and socialist science; postcolonial STS; agricultural science; public health; nutrition scicience; environmental history; political ecology.
