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
Latif Nasser
lnasser
Historical scientific instruments
A.B., Dartmouth College
Myrna Lynn Perez
mlperez
Victorian evolutionary theories; interactions between taxo-nomy, notions of descent, and the language of classification in British culture between 1830 and 1890
B.S., Westmont College
Scott Phelps
sdphelps
History of neuroscience and psychology; history of relations between medicine and religion; American and European modern intellectual history; neuroethics.

M.St., University of Oxford
B.A., College of William & Mary

Christopher Phillips
phillips
History of mathematics, modern American history, and pedagogy in the history of science.

M.Phil., Cambridge University
B.A., Harvard College

Joseph Pomianowski
jpomian
Chitra Ramalingam
ramaling
A Science of Appearances: Vision, Visualization and Experimental Physics in Victorian England.

A.B., Harvard University
M.Phil., Cambridge University

Christina Ramos
cramos
Early modern medicine; gender and the body; history of the book.
B.A. University of California, Davis
M.A., Duke University
William Rankin
wrankin
Scientific drawing, cartography, and visual culture; history of engineering and planning in the 19th and 20th centuries; science and architecture.

www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~wrankin
B.A., Rice University
B.Arch., Rice University
Lukas Benjamin Rieppel
rieppel
History of biology, evolution, behavioral ecology, genetics and the environment; philosophy of biology; philosophy of science; role of models and metaphores in the history of science.
B.A., McGill 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
M.Phil., Cambridge University

Hallam Stevens
stevens3
The use of computers as tools and metaphors in late 20th century biology; bioinformatics; quantum computing; Human Genome Project; molecular anthropology and the use of DNA to reconstruct the past.

A.B., Harvard University
M.Phil., Cambridge University

Leandra Swanner
swanner
History of modern physics and astronomy; the intersection between professional and amateur science; the political, economic, and institutional forces that influence resource allocation in international astronomy.

B.A., Humboldt State University
B.S., Humboldt State University
M.A., Oregon State University

Kara W. Swanson
kswanson
 

B.S., Yale University
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
J.D., University of California, Berkeley

Jessica Tanenbaum
tanenb
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
Jenna Tonn
jtonn
Matthew Carl Underwood
munderw
History of alchemy and alchemical medicine; medicine and experiment; encyclopedias; science and empire in the early modern atlantic world.

B.A., Yale University
M.Phil., Cambridge University

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
Marco Antonio Viniegra
viniegra
 
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
Alex Wellerstein
wellerst
Institutions of control and power in the history of the physical and biological sciences, especially relating to heredity and nuclear weapons.

www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~wellerst

B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Lambert Williams
lwilliam
20th century physics, philosophy of science, foundations of probability.
M.Sc., London School of Economics
M.A., New York University
B.A., London School of Economics

Mariel Louise Wolfson
mwolfson
History of medicine; environmental history; the relationship between housing and illness in American history.
A.M., Harvard University, 2008
B.A., Columbia College
Nasser Basem Zakariya
zakariya
Science and narrative; history and philosophy of mathematics and physics; science, law and race; film and science.

B.A., Columbia University
M.A., Columbia University
M.Phil., Cambridge University

 

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