Faculty in Related Departments
Lundy Braun is Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies. Trained as a biomedical scientist, her current scholarship focuses on the constructions of race in science, public health, and medicine.
Justin Broackes is Associate Professor of Philosophy. He works on 17th and 18th century philosophy, and on topics in the history of our thought about mind and world. He is writing a book on the theory of color from the Ancient Greeks to Wittgenstein.
Phil Brown is a Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies. He has studied “contested illnesses,” such as asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War-related illnesses, which have involved public debates over their environmental causes; he also studies the impact of social movements on those debates.
Anne Fausto-Sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry and the current Chair of the Committee on Science and Technology Studies. Her most recent book, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, examines the social nature of biological knowledge about animal and human sexuality.
Samuel Greenblatt is a practicing academic neurosurgeon who also has some formal training in the history of science and medicine. He is especially interested in using history to explore the conceptual foundations of the neurosciences so that we may better overcome theoretical barriers to improving our understanding of how the brain works.
Sherine Hamdy is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cogut Center for the Humanities. She focuses on the anthropology of medicine, health, science, and technology, and the production of knowledge. Her field experience has been primarily in Egypt, where she has pursued Muslim ethical responses to bio-technological dilemmas.
Evelyn Lincoln is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture. She is interested in issues of authorship and intellectual property, observation and representation, truth claims and the rise of professionalism in early modern science and scientific writing.
Patrick Malone is an Associate Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies. He has also served as director of the Slater Mill Historic Site and president of the Society for Industrial Archeology. He has studied surplus water and hybrid power systems in Lowell, MA, where much of his research has been focused.
Tara Nummedal is Assistant Professor of History. She is interested in natural knowledge and the imitation of nature in early modern Europe. Her research has examined links among alchemy, religion, gender and politics in the Holy Roman Empire.
Joan Richards is Professor of History. A historian of science, Richards is particularly interested in the cultural impact of mathematical ideas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Nicolás Wey-Gómez is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies. He studies the structures of knowledge that informed the development of colonialist and anti-colonialist ideologies during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.