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		Research Areas
	Allison Law MD/PhD Student allison.law@yale.edu	history of medicine; 19c. and 20c. domestic medicine; medical ethics
	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
	Kamil Ahsan PhD Candidate kamil.ahsan@yale.edu	Environmental history; coral reefs; history of biology; pacific history
	Rene Almeling Professor of Sociology, History of Medicine, American Studies, and Public Health (Health Policy) rene.almeling@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-3340	Health and Medicine, Gender, Reproduction, Reproductive Technologies, Genetics, Science and Technology, Knowledge
	Thomas Anderson PhD Candidate t.anderson@yale.edu	Poisons; Climatology and the Environment; Caribbean medical exchanges and conflicts; Enlightenment Atlantic; Experimentation; Ethnobotany; Material history & critical archival studies
	Elaine Ayers Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine; Director of Undergraduate Studies elaine.ayers@yale.edu	Natural History; Colonialism; Art and Science; Collecting; Museum Studies; Botany
	Alexi Baker, Ph.D. Collections Manager, HST alexi.baker@yale.edu Phone: (203) 737-3084	History of science and technology; Early modern history (HST, socioeconomic, cultural); Material and visual culture; Digital humanities; Historical geography; Museum studies
	Justin Barr justin.barr@yale.edu
	Marisa Bass, Ph.D. Professor marisa.bass@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-2666	Early modern art, science, and intellectual history
	Paola Bertucci 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	material histories of science and technology, museums and collecting, early modern craft and labor, the early modern body, 18th-century experimental philosophy
	Ana Cristina Betancourt PhD Student anacristina.betancourt@yale.edu	History of Natural History; History of Botany; Museums; Hispanic Caribbean; 19th century; U.S. Imperialism
	Juliana Broad PhD Student juliana.broad@yale.edu	History of Science; History of the Mind Sciences; History of Medicine; Therapeutic Cultures; Psychoanalysis; Human Kinds; Philosophy of Science; Historical Epistemology; Science and Religion
	Estrella Castillo PhD Candidate estrella.castillo@yale.edu	Critical theories in science & religion; community-engaged methodologies; traditional Indigenous knowledge & settler scientific thought; techno-optimism in psychedelic & land sciences; Indigenous religions & medicines under U.S. & international law
	Pasquale Cicarella Registrar pasquale.cicarella@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 4321310
	Deborah Coen Professor of History & History of Science & Medicine deborah.coen@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 436-8100	History of the modern physical and environmental sciences; Central European intellectual and cultural history
	Ashley Cooper PhD Student ashley.cooper@yale.edu	History of Psychiatry; 20th Century U.S. Medicine; History of Health Inequities and Public Health; History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade; History of Emotion; Oral History; Youth Suicidality; History of the DSM; Racism, Medicine, and Science
	Ivano Dal Prete Lecturer in History 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
	Ivano Dal Prete Lecturer in History 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
	Hailey Davis PhD Student hailey.davis.hd394@yale.edu
	Breeanna Elliott PhD Candidate breeanna.elliott@yale.edu	Africa; HSHM; ethnobotany; oral history; gender; Indian Ocean slave trade networks; traditional medicine and healing systems in Madagascar and Tanzania
	Kristine Ericson PhD Candidate kristine.ericson@yale.edu	History of design and technology; material and visual culture; STS; history of the built environment; history of natural history; US cultural history; digital humanities
	Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan PhD Candidate sebastian.fernandez-mulligan@yale.edu	History of Physics; History of Social Sciences; Rhetoric and Myths in Science; Science and Technology Studies; Decay
	Melissa Grafe John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History & Head of the Medical Historical Library melissa.grafe@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 785-4354	Early American medicine, disease, and therapeutics; medical education and training; ethics; material and visual culture
	Sophie Grapentin PhD Student sophie.grapentin@yale.edu	Nineteenth and twentieth century Europe, history of medicine, history of the body
	Sydney Green MD/PhD Candidate sydney.green@yale.edu	History of medicine; intimate partner violence; race and medicine; Black feminism
	Tyler Griffith tyler.griffith@yale.edu
	Sara Hollar PhD Student sara.hollar@yale.edu	history of reproduction, 20th-century U.S., material and visual culture, history of specimen collection, disability studies
	Nivetha Karthikeyan PhD Student niv.karthikeyan@yale.edu	critical data studies, critical disability and chronic illness studies, women-of-color feminism, crip-of-color theory
	Daniel Kevles Stanley Woodward Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine; Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School daniel.kevles@yale.edu	Politics, government, science, technology & national security; Eugenics; Genetics; Biotechnology; Intellectual property; Plant & animal breeding
	Lauren Killingsworth MD/PhD Student lauren.killingsworth@yale.edu	history of medicine and public health, environmental history, health policy, zoonotic disease, animal studies, medical cartography
	Heidi Knoblauch heidi.knoblauch@yale.edu
	Greta LaFleur Associate Professor Tenure greta.lafleur@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 432-5547	Colonial North America; early America; natural history; race, gender, and sexuality; science, law and regulation
	Megann Licskai Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine; Senior Project Director, HSHM megann.licskai@yale.edu	US & Canadian medical history; reproductive medicine & justice; gender, science, & medicine; feminist STS; emotions, science, & medicine; biopolitics; life, death & personhood; bodies & medicine in the media; health politics, activism, conservatism
	Anthony Liddie PhD Student anthony.liddie@yale.edu
	Kenya Loudd PhD Candidate kenya.loudd@yale.edu	The experiences of people of African descent within the U.S. & throughout the Diaspora at the nexus of race, disability, education & institutionalization; systematic & institutional discrimination's role in opression
	Oliver Lucier PhD Candidate oliver.lucier@yale.edu	History of Climate Science; Environmental History; History of Biodiversity; History of Agriculture
	Dismayra Martinez Asst Administrator History of Med dismayra.martinez@yale.edu Phone: 203-785-4701
	Barbara McKay Admin Assoc History barbara.mckay@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-1365
	Alka Menon Assistant Professor alka.menon@yale.edu	Health and Medicine, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Science and Technology Studies, Globalization and AI
	Lisa Messeri Assistant Professor lisa.messeri@yale.edu Website	Anthropology of science and technology, science and technology studies, ethnography, astronomy and planetary science, virtual reality, emerging technology
	Ramona Moore Admin Asst History of Med ramona.moore@yale.edu Phone: 203-785-4338
	Gourav Krishna Nandi Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine gouravkrishna.nandi@yale.edu	History of global health; health and medicine in modern South Asia; postcolonial health policy; urban public health in the Global South; politics of refugee health; food, medicine, and law; health and governmentality; philosophy of history
	Dalena Ngo PhD Candidate dalena.ngo@yale.edu
	Ayah Nuriddin Assistant Professor ayah.nuriddin@yale.edu	histories of eugenics, racial science, scientific racism, reproduction, and human subjects research
	Libby O'Neil PhD Candidate libby.oneil@yale.edu	history of psychology and the behavioral sciences, history of technology, modern history, global history, STS
	Nora O'Neill MD/PhD Candidate nora.oneill@yale.edu	history of medicine; disability studies; reproductive justice; narrative medicine
	John Peters Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies john.peters@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 4326894	Media theory, media history (esp. early modern, nineteenth-century, postwar, and contemporary), environmental humanities (especially weather and oceans), critical digital studies, with broad interdisciplinary interests in art, literature, music, religion,
	Nana Osei Quarshie Assistant Professor nanaosei.quarshie@yale.edu	West Africa; Medicine; Migration and Political Expulsions; Urbanization
	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
	Marco Ramos Assistant Professor marco.ramos@yale.edu Phone: 203-785-4338	Latin America and medicine; history of madness; health activism; Cold War; psychedelics and pharmaceuticals
	Joy Rankin joy.rankin@yale.edu
	Bill Rankin Associate Professor of the History of Science; Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine william.rankin@yale.edu	Modern geographic and environmental sciences; history of technology; mapping, spatial history, and digital humanities; visual scholarship
	Charlotte Rich PhD Candidate charlotte.rich@yale.edu	History of Reproductive Health, 19th Century Irish Migration, History of Sexuality, Urban History
	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
	Sydney Robinson PhD Student s.robinson@yale.edu	histories of natural history and ethnography, 19th century American (pseudo)science, history of the Anglophone Caribbean, museum studies, histories of collecting and display, visual culture
	Naomi Rogers Professor of the History of Medicine and History; Director of Graduate Studies 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
	Rachel Rothschild rachel.rothschild@yale.edu
	Mara Santilli MA Student mara.santilli@yale.edu	reproductive justice, gender and sexuality, reproductive care access, histories of reproductive medicine and public health
	Vreni Schoenenberger vreni.schoenenberger@yale.edu
	Jason Schwartz Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and in the History of Medicine jason.l.schwartz@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 785-6663	History of U.S. health policy and public health; vaccination; pharmaceuticals; CDC, FDA, and other government health agencies; scientific expert advice to government
	Hayley Serpa PhD Student hayley.serpa@yale.edu	History and Anthropology of Population; Critical Demography; Indigenous Epistemologies; STS; Community-Engaged Research; Andes-Amazon
	Kirti Sharma kirti.sharma@yale.edu
	Madeleine Sheahan PhD Candidate madeleine.sheahan@yale.edu	Early modern history of medicine; gender and women’s history; embodied and artisanal knowledge; social, cultural, and material history
	Frank Snowden Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History; Professor of History and Medicine frank.snowden@yale.edu	Social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine: the societal impact of infectious diseases; modern European social and political history
	Wonik Son PhD Student wonik.son@yale.edu	history of global health, STS, disability studies, environmental history, development, global history, visual studies
	Dennis Song PhD Student dennis.song@yale.edu	science and technology studies; history of planetary sciences; philosophy of technology; digital ethics; international fiscal economics and policies; leisure, somatics and affect; Chinese frontiers (Southwest & Northeast); California
	Deborah Streahle Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine deborah.streahle@yale.edu	Health activism; end-of-life care; technology & medicine; STS; material culture; medical museums; psychedelic therapy; senses, emotions, and spatial histories
	William Summers, MD, PhD Professor (Retired) of Therapeutic Radiology, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and History of Medicine; Lecturer in History william.summers0417@gmail.com Phone: 2038879224	History of modern biology; geopolitics of disease; Asian science and medicine
	Andrew Tam MA Student andrew.tam@yale.edu
	Ying Jia Tan yingjia.tan@yale.edu
	Kalindi Vora Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies and of Ethnicity Race and Migration and of American Studies kalindi.vora@yale.edu Phone: +1 (203) 4321656	Feminist Science and Technology Studies; Anthropology of Medicine; Postcolonial Studies; Critical Race & Ethnic Studies/American Studies
	Madeleine Ware PhD Candidate madeleine.ware@yale.edu	Histories of Medicine and Public Health; Gender and Sexuality; Reproductive Health; 19th and 20th-century Physical Culture and Fitness; Britain and Empire
	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

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