People

Gustave Lester

glester@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of earth sciences; environmental history; history of capitalism; settler colonial studies; U.S. Empire; Early American studies; Native American and Indigenous studies. Gustave Lester studies the history of the earth sciences in...

Ying Li

ying_li@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Cold War science and technology; technoscientific modernity; agrarian studies; political ecology; multispecies relations; scientific institutions; work, labor, and technology in everyday life; modern China. Ying is a PhD student in the...

Ilana Lowy

lowy@vjf.cnrs.fr

Historian of Science, King's College London

Przemyslaw Matt Lukacz

plukacz@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Environmental history, ethics and politics; science and international affairs; global history; critical histories of artificial intelligence; history of technology; philosophy of science; science and higher education in America...

Elizabeth Lunbeck

lunbeck@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the History of Science in Residence

ON LEAVE AY2026-2027

Elizabeth Lunbeck is a historian of the human sciences, specializing in the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and psychology. Throughout her career, she has been interested in the conceptual foundations of these disciplines as well as in the social...

Ashton Macfarlane

macfarlane@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of environmental monitoring; legal assimilation of biological and environmental data; history of 20th century biology; scientific collaborations between New Zealand and the United States; history of environmental, biological...

Rebecka Mähring

maehring@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of physics; labor history; material and visual culture; scientific visualizations; history of photography; history of technology; sociology of science; history of observation. Rebecka Mikaela Mähring is a PhD student in the...

Ben Maldonado

bmaldonado@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of medicine; history of biology; history of the body; history of sex, gender, and sexuality; age and aging studies; risk, prediction, and insurance; feminist science studies; history of eugenics. Ben Maldonado is a PhD...

Hannah Marcus

hmarcus@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the History of Science

Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Areas of Research: Early Modern Science and Medicine Hannah Marcus is Professor of the History of Science in the Department of the History of Science and the Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University...

Angélica Márquez-Osuna

marquezosuna@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Global history; history of colonialism and capitalism; animal studies; environmental history; history of Latin America and the Global South. Angélica studies the history of Latin America from a global perspective, specializing in...

Wythe Marschall

wmarschall@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Agriculture and the environment; agricultural technology; anthropology of food and agriculture; anthropology of technology; anthropology of work; biotechnology and bioengineering/synthetic biology; cellular agriculture; controlled...

Jamie Marsella

jmarsella@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of medicine and public health; history of religion; women’s history; history of childhood; history of eugenics. Jamie Marsella completed her PhD in History of Science. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the...