People

Kiran Kumbhar

kirankumbhar@mail.harvard.edu

Dr. Malathy Singh Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the South Asian Studies Council, Yale University

Research Interests: History of medicine; medical anthropology; modern Indian history; global health; health policy. Kiran Kumbhar received his PhD in History of Science in May 2022. His dissertation, titled "Healing and Harming: The "Noble Profession" of...

Shigehisa Kuriyama

hkuriyam@fas.harvard.edu

Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History

Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After completing acupuncture studies in Tokyo, he entered Harvard's Department of the History of Science...

Max Kwass-Mason

mkwassmason@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of computing; urban history; legal history; labor history. Max Kwass-Mason is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science Department. His research centers on the intersection of computing, municipal government, and the rule...

Michelle LaBonte

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Purdue University

Research Interests: History of medicine; history of biology; history of technology; disability history

Charlotte Lai

charlottelai@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Global East Asia; environmental history; multispecies studies; history of biology and the natural sciences; historical ecology; cultural geography; global early modernity. My name is Charlotte Lai, and I graduated from the University...

Michele Lamont

mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu

Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies; Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies

Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist who studies inclusion and inequality, she has...

Colleen Lanier-Christensen

colleenlanier@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of public health; environmental history; science, technology, and society; science policy; history of biology and biotechnology. Colleen Lanier-Christensen completed her PhD in the History of Science Department and is working...

Gideon Lasco

plasco@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Medical anthropology; social medicine; global health; drug policy; politics of health; histories of medicine in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Gideon Lasco completed an AM in the History of Science at Harvard University, in...

Bruno Latour

bruno.latour@sciences-po.fr

(1947 - 2022)

Philosopher, Anthropologist and Sociologist of Science

Oliver Lazarus

olazarus@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Environmental history; history of capitalism; history of U.S. empire; animal history; history of technology; economic history; urban history; STS; the Anthropocene. Oliver Lazarus is a PhD candidate in the History of Science Department...

Vi Le

vle@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of experimentation in psychology; history of social psychology; history of cognitive psychology; history of neuroscience. I am immensely curious about experimentation and the experimental method. This is a broad interest that...

Rebecca Lemov

rlemov@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the History of Science

Areas of Research: Science & Technology Studies, Technology & Society, Media Studies, Human Sciences Rebecca Lemov's research focuses on key episodes and experiments in the history of the human and behavioral sciences. Her forthcoming book, The...