Faculty

Research Areas
Sakena Abedin's picture Sakena Abedin
Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine
sakena.abedin@yale.edu
20th century U.S. medicine; medicine and the social sciences; race and medicine; history of the U.S. healthcare system; healthcare in New Haven
Paola Bertucci's picture Paola Bertucci
Associate Professor of History and History of Medicine; Curator-in-charge, History of Science and Technology Division, Peabody Museum
paola.bertucci@yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-1397
science and technology in the early modern world, cultures of collecting and display; artisanal knowledge, the early modern body, scientific travel, material culture, experimental philosophy
Deborah Coen's picture Deborah Coen
Professor, Chair of the History of Science & Medicine Program
deborah.coen@yale.edu
Phone: +1 (203) 436-8100
History of the modern physical and environmental sciences; Central European intellectual and cultural history
Ivano Dal Prete's picture Ivano Dal Prete
Lecturer in History, Director of Undergraduate Studies 2022-2023
ivano.dalprete@yale.edu
Early history of the Earth sciences (1200-1800); Renaissance scientific literature in the vernacular; generation in the long eighteenth century; material and visual culture of astronomy and natural history; science, religion and society
Kelly O'Donnell's picture Kelly O'Donnell
Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine
kelly.odonnell@yale.edu
20th century U.S. medicine; gender and medicine; reproduction and reproductive health; health activism; medical technologies and pharmaceuticals
Nana Osei Quarshie's picture Nana Osei Quarshie
Assistant Professor
nanaosei.quarshie@yale.edu
West Africa; Medicine; Migration and Political Expulsions; Urbanization
Joanna Radin's picture Joanna Radin
Associate Professor of History of Medicine and History, and History and Anthropology
joanna.radin@yale.edu
Phone: 203-785-4258
Global histories of biology, ecology, medicine, and anthropology since 1945; history and anthropology of life and death; biomedical technology and computing; feminist, indigenous, and queer STS; science fiction
Chitra Ramalingam's picture Chitra Ramalingam
Lecturer, HSHM and History, Senior Project Director HSHM 2022-2023
chitra.ramalingam@yale.edu
History and theory of photography, cultural history of the physical sciences (18th-century to the present), science and visual culture, visual studies, material culture studies, modern British history, science and empire, museum studies
Marco Ramos's picture Marco Ramos
Assistant Professor
marco.ramos@yale.edu
Phone: 203-785-4338
Health Activism; Liberation Psychiatry; Decolonization; Latin America and the Cold War; Psychedelics and Drugs
Bill Rankin's picture Bill Rankin
Associate Professor of the History of Science (On Leave Fall 2022)
william.rankin@yale.edu
Physical and earth sciences since the mid-nineteenth century; military, industrial, and governmental science; history of cartography; science and architecture; visual studies; environmental history
Carolyn Roberts's picture Carolyn Roberts
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History and History of Medicine
carolyn.roberts@yale.edu
Medicine and slavery in the Atlantic world; race, medicine, and science; history of medicine in Africa and the African diaspora; health and protest in African American history; non-Western medicine and global health
Naomi Rogers's picture Naomi Rogers
Professor of the History of Medicine and History, Director of Graduate Studies 2022-2023
naomi.rogers@yale.edu
Phone: 203-785-4341
Historical interests: 20th and 21st century history of medicine, health inequities and social justice. Research focus: gender and health; disease and public health; disability; feminism; alternative medicine; health policy; and health activism
John Harley Warner's picture John Harley Warner
Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine; Professor of History and of American Studies; Chair of the Section of the History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
john.warner@yale.edu
Phone: 203-785-4338
19th & 20th century US medicine and health; Comparative history of medicine (US, Britain, France); Cultural history of science & medicine