People
Graduate Students
Lastname A - M
Unless otherwise noted, contact students via email by adding email usernames listed below to: @fas.harvard.edu
Name & Research Interests |
Email & Degrees |
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| Joelle M. Abi-Rached | jabi |
| History of medicine; History of the brain/mind sciences ('psy' and 'neuro' sciences); Madness and insanity; (Post) Colonial Psychiatry; Memory science; Memory and Trauma; Memory politics; Post-war discourses; War and Medicine; History of the modern middle east/near east; Ethics; Epistemology; Historiography; Philosophy of History; Political Philosophy; Global Health; Identity politics | M.Sc., London School of Economics |
| Mehreen Akhtar | akhtar |
| Noam Andrews | andrews |
| The development of visual and material cultures within science, including the role of models/instruments/ inscriptions/graphical systems in the visualization of scientific research, the emergence of spatial paradigms, and the reciprocal relationship between literature and the scientific imaginary. |
MRes., The London Consortium RIBA Part 3 (Postgraduate Diploma) AA Diploma, Architectural Association B.F.A., Cornell University |
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talarbel M.A., Tel Aviv University |
| Leah Aronowsky | laronowsky |
Historiography of medical technology; imaging technologies and visual analysis. |
BA, Wesleyan |
| Jerome Baudry | baudry |
| James Bergman | jbergman |
| Anouska Bhattacharyya | abhattac |
| Gender, race and medicine, especially 'indigenous' medical traditions in Asia and the use of medicine as a tool of empire. | B.A., University of Cambridge |
| He Bian | bian |
| History of medicine and society in East Asia, 1600-1900. My dissertation will focus on the history of pharmacy and pharmacology in late imperial China, esp. the social process of how medicines were collected, put into market, turned into consumable forms, and administered during the practice of healers. | |
| History of medicine in East Asia, especially China and Japan; Transformation of body views in 19th - 20th century and its social/cultural implications. | B.S., Peking University M.S., University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Jeremy Todd Blatter | jblatter |
| Robin Buchholz Special Student (Visiting) |
buchholz |
fadiran |
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| The complex interactions between broad cultural trends and developments within the boundaries of the scientific and medical professions, particularly the influence of religion on science and medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. | B.A., Duke University |
| Lisa Crystal | lcrystal |
| History of Physics: the historical and philosophical implications of Albert Einstein's special and general theories of relativity. | B.A., King's College |
| Robert Cunningham (Visiting student, Harvard Extension School) | rcunning |
| Fabian de Kloe (Visiting student/Fellow, Maastricht University) | fdekloe |
Stephanie Dick
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sadick |
History of mathematics and computer science, their interfaces, material culture, and practices in the 19th through 21st centuries. |
B.A., University of King's College M.A., University of Toronto |
Connemara Doran |
cdoran A.M., Harvard University |
| Megan Formato | mpshield |
| 20th c. physics; Niels Bohr and the Bohr atomic model; science as a literary practice; relations between literature and science. | B.A., Amherst College |
| Ardeta Gjkola | agjkola |
Danielle Hallet
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dhallet |
History of science journalism |
BA, MA, University of British Columbia |
| Emily Harrison | harrison |
| Emily Harrison works on modern public health and medicine in the global context. Themes include chronic disease, health and development, and caregiving. | M.Sc., Harvard Univ.School of Public Health |
Lisa Haushofer
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haushofer |
| History of disease and public health, history of global health and international health organizations. | |
| Kathryn Heintzman | kheintzman |
History of psychiatry; history of race/gender/sexuality |
BAH, MA, Queen's College |
| Kuang-Chi Hung | khung |
| Cara Kiernan Fallon | |
| Jessica Kovler | jdkovler |
| Jessica Diller Kovler is an editor and researcher who has published articles on health and medicine in many publications, including the New York Times and Discover magazine. She has performed applied public health research for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Her research interests include the history of medical ethics in the 20th century, social constructs of disease and contagion models, and criminalization of the ill. She is currently working on her first book. | BA, Yale College |
| Juan Andres Leon | jaleon |
| Modern physics and biology; colonial/third world science and technology |
B.A., Universidad de los Andes |
| Margarita Liptsin | mliptsin |
Yan Liu |
yanliu |
| Melissa Lo | mmlo |
| Enlightenment medicine and sciences; histories of progress; early modern historiography; 17th & 18th century art and architecture. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mmlo |
A.B., Harvard University S.M.Arch.S., MIT |
| Francis McKay (Visiting student, University of Chicago) | |
| Allyssa Metzger | allyssametzger |
Medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy and science, particularly astronomy/astrology in Iberia |
BA, College of New Jersey; MA, Northeastern |
| Ion G. Mihailescu | igmihail |
| History of physics (particularly theoretical high-energy physics), early modern history and popularization of science. URL: www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~igmihail |
B.A., Columbia University |
Miranda Mollendorf
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mamollen |
| Miranda Mollendorf is a 6th year graduate student writing a dissertation entitled “The World in a Book: Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1797-1815).” As an early modernist, she studies art and science relationships, especially from the 16th to the 19th centuries in France and England; investigating the visual culture of natural history and anatomy; botany; gender and the body; history of the book; travel; the display of nature in frontispieces, zoos, libraries, cabinets of curiosity, and museums, along with the associated cognitive/ emotional aspects of curiosity and wonder. She is currently publishing papers and has given lectures on French Renaissance anatomical prints, French Renaissance gardening and pottery, plant personification and hybridity, and the visual culture of death and dying. She is on the tutorial board in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and she also works in the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, writing catalogue entries. Her work is currently being funded by the Huntington Library and Dumbarton Oaks, Department of Garden and Landscape Studies for the 2011-2012 academic year. http://harvard.academia.edu/MirandaMollendorf |
B.FA., SUNY-Buffalo |
| Deirdre Moore | deirdremoore at gmail.com |
| Deirdre Moore is interested in the relation between the soul and the body in late antiquity. | BA, Dalhousie University |
| Florin-Stefan Morar | morar |
| Alexander More | amedico |
| The origins of welfare policy. | A.B., Washington University |
| Evgeny Morozov | |
| The irreducible materiality and the cultural mentalities of technological change, particularly as seen in his object of choice, the internet. | BA, American University in Bulgaria |
| Mateo Munoz | munoz2 |
| Risk, memory, diagnostic technologies, and cognitive difference. | B.A., Oberlin College |
