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Harriet Ritvo

Arthur J. Conner Professor of History

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Leslie-William T. Robinson

lrobinson@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on the History of Science

Research Interests: History of medicine and the behavioral sciences; History of capitalism; 19th & 20th century US history; Critical military studies; Peace history Les Robinson is a lecturer in the History of Science Department. A historian of the modern...

Ángel Rodriguez

angelrodriguez@g.harvard.edu

BA., University of California Santa Barbara MA., University of California Santa Barbara MA., Harvard University Ángel Ricardo Rodríguez is Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His work focuses on applying social science methods...

Charles E. Rosenberg

rosenb3@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus

Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences

Charles E. Rosenberg has written widely on the history of medicine and science and is best known for his Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago, 1962, new edition, 1987); The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau. Psychiatry and Law in...

Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz

(1923 - 2014)

Professor of the History of Science, Emerita

Barbara Rosenkrantz started her teaching career at Harvard as a lecturer in the History of Science Department in 1971. Professor Rosenkrantz was chair of the History of Science Department at Harvard from 1984-1989, and continued to teach at Harvard until...

Christopher Rudeen

cmrudeen@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of medicine; history of psychiatry; American history; women, gender, and sexuality studies; material culture; medicalizing difference. Christopher M. Rudeen completed his PhD in the History of Science Department, with a...

A.I. Sabra

(1924 - 2013)

Professor of the History of Arabic Science, Emeritus

Abdelhamid Ibrahim ("Bashi") Sabra, Professor Emeritus of the History of Arabic Science at Harvard University, passed away on December 18 in Lexington, Massachusetts after a long illness. Born in 1924 to a family of modest means in the Egyptian city of...

Aiden Sagerman

aidensagerman@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of mathematics; history of quantification; history of eugenics; history of the right; scientific internationalism; intellectual history. Aiden Sagerman studies the histories of mathematics, quantification, and race and eugenics...

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Raj Sastry

rsastry@alumni.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of medicine; medical humanities; health policy; global health; public health; science & technology studies; technology & society. I completed A.B. and A.M. degrees in the History of Science and am now pursuing an M.D. at Weill...

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Paolo Savoia

paolo.savoia@kcl.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, King's College London

Research Interests: The social and epistemological history of Renaissance European surgery, with special reference to the history of pain management; The history of reconstructive techniques of the face, and the history of perceptions of the human face...