Faculty

Paola Bertucci

Assistant Professor of History and History of Medicine
History of early modern sciences. more…

 

 

 

Ivano Dal Prete

Lecturer of History
Astronomy and history of the Earth, public culture of science in the Republic of Venice, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. more…

 

 

 

Mariola Espinosa

Assistant Professor of History of Medicine (School of Medicine) and History
Mariola Espinosa’s primary research interest is the role of disease and public health in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. Specifically, she concentrates on how diseases and responses to them shape relations of power between the peoples of the region and other actors in the international system. more…

 

 

Bettyann H. Kevles

Senior Lecturer in History
History of science and technology; intersection of art and science. more…

 

 

 

Daniel J. Kevles

Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Professor of History of Medicine, of American Studies, and of Law (adjunct)
Interplay of science and society past and present; science in America; modern physics; modern biology; scientific fraud and misconduct; intellectual property in living organisms. more…

 

 

Mandisa Mbali

Postdoctoral Associate
A South African Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, has just completed her dissertation at Oxford in Modern History, writing on “'The New Struggle?': A History of AIDS Activism in South Africa, 1982-2003.” more…

 

 

David Musto

Professor of Child Psychiatry & History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
Social history, policies involving alcohol, narcotics, AIDS, the family and mental health. more…

 

 

 

Leon Antonio Rocha

Lecturer
East Asian history of science and medicine; History of the Human Sciences; Eugenics; Sex and Gender; Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis; Colonialism; Translation more…

 

 

 

Naomi Rogers

Associate Professor of History of Medicine (School of Medicine), History, & Women's and Gender Studies
History of disease, public health, gender and medicine, nursing, and alternative medicine in 19th- and 20th-century America. more…

 

 

Frank Snowden

Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History and Professor of History of Medicine; Chair of the Program in History of Science and Medicine
History of public health; comparative history of infectious diseases and their impact on society; the intellectual history of medicine as a discipline. more…

 

 

Bruno J. Strasser

Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine (School of Medicine) and History
Cultural and social history of science in the 20th century, science and foreign policy, biomedicine, the pharmaceutical industry, scientific instrumentation, collective memory. more…

 

 

William C. Summers

Lecturer in History; Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and the History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
history of Chinese science, public health and medicine, epidemic disease, Asian technological development, East-West scientific interactions. more…

 

 

John Harley Warner

Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine; Professor of History and of American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in the History of Science & Medicine; Chair, Section of the History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
Cultural and social history of medicine in 19th and 20th century America; comparative history (particularly British, French, and North American medicine); medical cultures since the late 18th century. more…

 

 

Yong-an Zhang

Visiting Associate Professor
Yong-an Zhang’s research focuses on the social history of drug and medicine, explores the interactions between government and medical profession during the formation of American drug policy in the 20th century. more…