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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
Francis Daniel Nina
The "real" in contemporary Western societies; the excluded knowledge(s) of sciences; the foundations ad origins of the way of thinking of us, Puerto Rican and Caribbean people.
BA Politics, University of Puerto Rico
MA International Relations, NYU
JD Law University of Puerto Rico
LLM Law, Notre Dame University
PhD Law, University of Kent
Sean Tath O'Donnell
sodonnel
 
Dip. Voice New England Conservatory
M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
J.D., Boston College Law School
B.A., University of Notre Dame
Ursula Pavlish
upavlish
History of physics; physics in relation to the other sciences and medicine in the 20th century, especially the history of magnetic resonance; science and literature; science, technology, and law.
B.A., Princeton University
Myrna Lynn Perez
mymperez@gmail.com
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 James Phillips
phillips
History and sociology of mathematics; mathematics pedagogy.

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

Alexander Davis Rafael
rafael
 
A.B., Harvard College
Chitra Ramalingam
ramaling
History of physical sciences; history of electricity; science and visual culture; history and theory of photography; science in 19th-century Britain.

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.

http://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

Hanna Rose Shell
shell
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~shell/

A..B., Harvard University
M.A., Yale University

Megan Patrice Shields-Stromsness
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
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

Kevin Raymond Stoller
stoller
 

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

Leandra Swanner
swanner
History of modern physics and astronomy; modern Japan; the intersection between professional and amateur science.

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

Jennifer Christine Thomson
phantomivy@hotmail.com
International and environmental health policy and practice B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Elly Rachel Truitt
etruitt
   
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
Ming Emily Vandenberg
mevanden
History of eugenics in the United States and Singapore.
A.B., Harvard College
Marco Antonio Viniegra
viniegra
Ancient science: medicine, philosophy; Galenism; Hippocratic tradition; late antiquity images of the body; early middle ages; history of the body.

B.A., University National Auto Mexico
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 physi-cal and biological sciences, especially relating to heredity and nuclear weapons.

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

B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Christine Dianne Wenc
wenc
History of life support technology and the ICU; history of technology; history of medicine; environmental history.

B.A., University of Wisconsin
M.A., Hollins University

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 and of biology; philosophy of biology; environmental history, especially as related to human health.
B.A., Columbia College
Elizabeth Esther Yale
yale
 
B.S., Yale University
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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