People
Graduate Students
Lastname N - Z
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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Latif Nasser
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lnasser |
| Historical scientific instruments | A.B., Dartmouth College |
| Elias Nelson | eliasnelson |
History of physics, the relationship between science and religion, and the relationship between the science and humanities disciplines |
BA, Shimer College |
| Myrna Lynn Perez | mlperez |
| Steven Jay Gould and his publics: evolutionary expertise, public intellectualism, and American biology, 1974 – 2002 | B.S., Westmont College |
Scott Phelps
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sdphelps |
| Scott Phelps studies the history of psychiatry and the neurosciences. For his dissertation he is writing about patients' self-awareness and the diagnosis of anosognosia in "Blind to their Blindness: Indifference, Anosognosia, and the Denial of Illness, 1880-1960." Other interests include the placebo effect and religion in contemporary medicine, neuroethics and the therapeutic misconception, the medical anthropology of trance, and neurological themes in literature and film. | M.St., University of Oxford |
| Yvan Prkachin | yvanprkachin |
| The Canadian neuroscientist Donald Hebb and the origins of the field of “physiological neuroscience” | BA, University of Northern British Columbia; MA, University of Guelph |
| Christina Ramos | cramos |
| Early modern medicine; gender and the body; history of the book. | B.A. University of California, Davis M.A., Duke University |
Miriam Rich
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mrich |
Social and cultural history of medicine in the U.S. as it relates to gender and race |
BA, Swarthmore |
| Lukas Benjamin Rieppel | rieppel |
| Articulating the Past: The Commercial Culture of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1870-1930. History of biology, environmental history; U.S. cultural and economic History, philosophy of biology. http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~rieppel |
B.A., McGill University |
| Adam Sachs | asachs |
| History and philosophy of 20th century social science, physics, and technology. | AB, Harvard College |
| Funke Iyabo Sangodeyi | fsangod |
| History of 2oth c. biology; history of biological objects; scientific and medical history in West Africa. | B.A., Harvard College |
Paolo Savoia
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savoia |
| History of European Renaissance Medicine; Social and Cultural History of Sixteenth-Century Surgery and Anatomy; History of Medieval and Early Modern Dietetics; Historical Epistemology. | University of Bologna University of Pisa |
| Laura Lee Schmidt | lauralee |
| Social history of labor; history of technology; positivism in science; natural philosophy; history of physics; Postwar development and progress narratives; modern Middle Eastern history; Islamic and Baroque art and architecture; Marxism; history of the Left; poetry Blog: www.latearriver.com |
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| Leandra Swanner | swanner |
| “Mountains, Myths, and Identity: The Role of Narrative and Landscape in Postwar Astronomy” History of modern physics and astronomy, particularly the controversy between indigenous populations and scientific communities over the contested landscapes of sacred mountains at large telescope sites. |
B.S., Humboldt State University |
| David Theodore | theodore |
| The interlocking histories of medicine and architecture, with an enphasis on seeing medical buildings as material culture. | B.A., McGill University M.A., McGill University B.Arch., McGill University B.Sc.Arch., McGill University |
| Jennifer Christine Thomson | jthomson |
B.A., University of California, Berkeley |
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| Jenna Tonn | jtonn |
| David Stephen Unger | dsunger |
| Relationships between the technical and material to systems of knowledge; how specific technical and material objects influence how one sees and understands the world and conversely how specific understandings lead one to pose certain technical problems and solutions. | B.A., University of Chicago |
| Jennifer van der Grinten | der |
| History of medicine and the body, especially dermatology and psychology. Focus on Japan, Europe and the United States. | |
Marco Antonio Viniegra
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viniegra |
| Neoclassical medicine: Transformations in the Hippocratic Medical Tradition from Galen to the Articella |
B.A., MEXIC D.E.A., Ecole des Hautes Etudes M.A., Harvard University |
| Daniel McAllister Volmar | dvolmar |
| History and philosophy of science, relationship between mathematics and physics. | B.A., University of California, Berkeley |
| Oriana Katharine Noor Walker | okwalker |
B.A., Reed College |
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| Mariel Louise Wolfson | mwolfson |
| "The Making of America's Modern Healthy Housing Movement, 1960-2010" Environmental history, history of ecology, and history of medicine. |
A.M., Harvard University, 2008 B.A., Columbia College |
| Katharine Womersley | kwomersley |
