Juliana Broad

Juliana Broad is a PhD student in Yale’s Program in the History of Science and Medicine broadly interested in the history of the mind sciences and expert testimony. Her current research explores the construction of sincerity as an object of scientific inquiry during World War I. Her published work includes a labor history of British psychoanalysis (History of the Human Sciences) and an account of how fiction was mobilized during the late-Victorian debate over compulsory smallpox vaccination (Medical History); she also co-authored a syllabus on invisible labor in science (published in History of Science). At Yale, she assists graduate students and postdocs with their writing projects as a Graduate Writing Lab Fellow at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. She earned an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science as a Gates Scholar from the University of Cambridge and a BA in the Liberal Arts from The New School, where she studied creative writing. Prior to attending The New School, she studied biology and philosophy at McGill University.