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.Read more about Erik Baker
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. Read more about Sandip Bhatt
Research interests: History of economic thought; history of quantification, chance, and probability; neoliberalism; history and philosophy of the social sciences.
Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science Director of Undergraduate Studies Faculty Dean, Pforzheimer House
ON LEAVE Spring 2018 Areas of Research: History of Medicine, Human Sciences, Medical Humanities, Psychiatry, Neuroscience Read more about Anne Harrington
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: Modern French and German intellectual history; history of the human sciences in Modern Europe, with emphasis on physiology, psychology and economics; history of capitalism. Read more about Jordan Howell
Research interests: science, technology, and society; colonialism and science; political influence; management of technology; history of psychology; psychological manipulation through science and technology.
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.
Research Interests: The social and epistemological history of Renaissance European surgery, with special reference to the history of pain management, the history of reconstructive techniques of the face, and the history of perceptions of the human face.
Research Interests: history of education; American Idealist philosophy and evolutionary paradigms. Historiographical interests include the American "Midwest," labor, and Marxism.
Research Interests: Science and society; Political judgment; Dynamic models in modern and historical political sciences; Genre and authority. Read more about Alexis Turner
