Research Interests: History of psychiatry; history of diagnosis; medical anthropology; history of bioethics; philosophy of science; anthropology of ethics.
I completed an AM in History of Science in spring of 2025. I am a writer and medical doctor working...
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...
Research Interests: Trauma and PTSD; activism and clinical practice; The DSM; second wave feminism and violence against women.
Leena Akhtar completed her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard University in 2017. Prior to this, she received an MA in...
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...
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...
Research Interests: Anthropology of science; history of psychiatry; history of the human sciences; museum studies; Queer science studies; science & technology studies; social theory.
Kelsey is a PhD student in History of Science at Harvard, with an...
Areas of Research: History of Medicine, Human Sciences, Medical Humanities, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Mind-Body Medicine, Neuroscience, Consciousness Studies
Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, specializing in...
Research Interests: History of mind sciences, including psychology, psychiatry, and social work; social epistemology; agnotology; Critical Black Studies; decolonial and multicultural psychologies including Black Psychology; conceptions of intelligence...
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...
Research Interests: Incarceration and health; medicine and social control; health justice; infectious disease; citizenship, migration and belonging; politics of memory.
Alexandra Halberstam (she/her) is a MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School and...
