People

Brad Bolman

bbolman@tulane.edu

Brad Bolman is Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Tulane University. He graduated from the Department of the History of Science in 2021. His first book, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles (Chicago, 2025), traces...

Alyssa Botelho

alyssa_botelho@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of medicine, public health, and global health; history of biology; health policy; medical humanities Alyssa completed her MD at Harvard Medical School and PhD in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University in May...

Allan M. Brandt

brandt@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the History of Science

Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine

Areas of Research: Global Health / Public Health, History of Medicine, Medical Humanities, Science Policy Allan M. Brandt is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science. He holds a joint appointment...

Rory Brinkmann

rory_brinkmann@g.harvard.edu

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...

Emma Broder

emmabroder@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Contested illness; patient experience/activism; medical epistemology; history of epidemiology; environmental health; medical sociology. Emma completed her PhD in the History of Science department. Her dissertation examines the 20th...

Janet Browne

jbrowne@fas.harvard.edu

Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus

Areas of Research: History of Biology Janet Browne’s interests range widely over the history of the life and earth sciences and natural history. She is now retired. At Harvard she taught a variety of courses on evolutionary history and the history of...

Malaya Caligtan-Tran

mcaligtantran@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Environmental history; history of empire; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Southeast Asian Studies; Asian American Studies; science and colonialism. Malaya Caligtan-Tran is a PhD student in American Studies. Their research...

Jimena Canales

canales@post.harvard.edu

Kevin Castro Riestra

kcastroriestra@gmail.com

Research interests: space history, history of aviation and aerospace technology; history of aerial and space archeology, Cold War, modern American history Kevin completed his A.M. in History of Science in March of 2020. He grew up in the border town of...

Joyce E. Chaplin

chaplin@fas.harvard.edu

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

Anna Christensen

achristensen@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of natural history; colonialism in the Americas; collecting expeditions; paleontology and fossil hunting; interactions between scientists and indigenous people; subterranean spaces; deep time; animals and temporality. Anna...

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

whkchun@sfu.ca

Canada 150 Research Chair and Professor, School of Communications, Simon Fraser University

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University's Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital...