People

Astrid Petropoulos

astridpetropoulos@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of biology; history of medicine; history of psychiatry; history of psychology; medical humanities; museum studies; public health; science policy. Astrid Petropoulos completed an AM in the History of Science in May of 2025. Her...

Antoine Picon

apicon@gsd.harvard.edu

G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology

Scott Podolsky

spodolsky@partners.org

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Kat Grace Poje

Research Interests: Animal studies, history of veterinary medicine, ethics, death, American history, history of race and racism. Kat completed a PhD in the History of Science Department. She studies the 19 th-21 st century scientific, legal, and ethical...

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Sara Press

Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow

University of British Columbia

Dr. Sara Press' research interrogates specific instances of systemic racism and biases in medical practice and pedagogy from the early twentieth century to present, illuminating inequalities in North American society that remain significant obstacles to...

Christina Ramos

christina.ramos@wustl.edu

Assistant Professor, History, Washington University in St. Louis

Research Interests: Early modern medicine; gender and the body; history of the book. Christina completed her dissertation on the history of madness and its institutionalization in colonial Mexico which examines the rise of New Spain’s first hospital for...

Lisbet Rausing

Historian of Science and Philanthropist, The Arcadia Fund

Sri Sathvik Rayala

srayala@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Medieval and early modern history, South Asia, premodern sciences and technology, Āyurveda, transregional circulation of knowledge, and Indic intellectual traditions and texts (śāstras). Sri Sathvik Rayala is a Ph.D. student in the...

Miriam Rich

miriamsrich@gmail.com

Research Interests: Social and cultural history of medicine in the U.S. as it relates to gender and race. Miriam Rich completed her A.M. and Ph.D. in Harvard's History of Science Department in May of 2019 upon submission of her dissertation, Monstrous...

Joan Richards

Joan_Richards@brown.edu

Professor of History, Brown University

Sarah S. Richardson

srichard@fas.harvard.edu

Aramont Professor of the History of Science & Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

ON LEAVE AY2026-2027

Areas of Research: History of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Science & Race, Women & Gender Studies Sarah Richardson has taught at Harvard University since 2010, where her courses include gender and science, feminist science studies, interdisciplinary...

Anna Riley

ariley@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Artisanal practice and embodied knowledge; conservation studies and heritage sciences; history of technology and STS; glassmaking; anthropology of craft, tourism, and development; globalization and commodities; histories of expeditions...