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: Mexican history; Nahua history and culture; decolonization; parteras; epistemological history of plant medicine; femme technology; history of childbirth; ritual and magic.
Research Interests: The history of medicine and diseases especially pathologies of progress such as cancer (especially cancer without oncology) and cardiovascular diseases in West African history; the history of open-heart surgery and other cardiac procedures in East, West, and South Africa; the ethical and cultural issues raised by progress made in science and medicine in African history.
Research Interests: History of the biosciences; animal models, experimentation, and the production of similarity; aging; globalization of science and capital; military technology; continental philosophy.
Research Interests: Biomedicalization; health and illness; medical humanities; medical epistemology; history of medicine; history of biology; feminist science studies.
Research interests: Religion and science; Islamic intellectual history; Mamluk studies; history of scientific encyclopedias; history of medicine; philosophy of science.
Research Interests: Health foods and nutrition; history of medicine and public health; food studies; history of consumption and advertising; history of the life sciences.
