How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
The post–civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a...
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...
Research Interests: History of medicine and public health; race and science; history of psychiatry; history of reproductive medicine and health; critical theories of race and gender; medical humanities.
Udodiri R. Okwandu completed her PhD in the...
Areas of Research: African & African-American Studies, History of Medicine, Science & Race, Science & Technology Studies, Women & Gender Studies
Professor Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of...
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 19th-21st century scientific, legal, and ethical...
Research Interests: Environmental history; labor history; political economy, race and capitalism; science and technology; Caribbean history; U.S. in the world.
Jordan Howell studies the history of U.S. capitalism in global context, with a focus on labor...
Research Interests: History of Medicine, Race and Science, US History, Global South Studies, Critical Social Theory, History of Capitalism
Michael is an AM student History of Science and a Ph.D student in the American Studies program. His research...
