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: History of neoliberalism; privatization of science; history of postwar human and social sciences; history of philosophy of science; 20th century American intellectual and political history.
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 economic thought; history of capitalism; models and correlations; eugenics; history and philosophy of the social sciences.
Research Interests: History of biology; feminist philosophy of biology; politics of capitalism; gender studies; science-politics binary; rationality-emotion binary; feminist science studies; politics of biology.
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: Science, technology, and society; colonialism and science; political influence; management of technology; history of psychology; psychological manipulation through science and technology.
Assistant Professor, American Studies, Williams College
Research Interests: Native science; indigeneity and science; science and nation building; intellectual decolonization movements; New Deal sciences; traditional ecological knowledge, history of anthropology and archeology; environmental history; postcolonial, feminist and queer theory; haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history; postcolonial material history and museum studies.
