Research Interests: History of technology and infrastructure; Latin American studies; postcolonial science studies; postcolonial, critical race, and queer theory; science fictions.
Allie Belser is responsible for managing all aspects of the undergraduate program including academic advising, student progress, Teaching Fellow assignments...
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 medicine and science in and beyond Europe and America; history of chronic diseases such as heart diseases, neurological disorders and cancers, of therapeutics such as cardiology, cardiac surgery, and coronary revascularization, of neurology and neurosurgery, of specialty training and education, of global health, and of medical ethics in sub-Saharan Africa; and the origin of neurosurgery in the US
Research Interests: History of the biosciences; animal models, experimentation, and the production of similarity; aging; globalization of science and capital; military science and technology; continental philosophy.