Faculty in Related Departments
Lundy Braun is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies. Trained as a biomedical scientist, her current research focuses on the history of race in science, public health, and medicine with special emphasis on the contemporary debate on health inequality and genomics.
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 Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies. His research interests include citizen science alliances, labor-environment coalitions, health social movements, connections between breast cancer activism and environmental justice, and biomonitoring and household exposure. His most recent book is Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. His other books include Social Movements in Health and No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action, about the Woburn leukemia cluster. He founded and now co-leads the Contested Illnesses Research Group. He also directs the Community Outreach Core of Brown’s Superfund Basic Research Program.
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 clinically retired, academic neurosurgeon who also has 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 understand historically-based barriers to improving our knowledge of how the brain works.
Sherine Hamdy is an assistant professor of the Department of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from New York University Department of Anthropology in 2006. Her current book project, Our Bodies Belong to God: Islam and Medicine in Egypt is under contract with the University of California Press. Hamdy teaches courses on theories and controversies in Science and Society, and the anthropology of bioethics. Her research focuses on the anthropology of medicine, health, science, and technology, and the production of knowledge. Her field experience has been in Egypt. Click here for recent articles by Professor Hamdy.
Evelyn Lincoln is Associate Professor of the History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies. 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 Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies and director of the Urban Studies Program. 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. His new book, Waterpower in Lowell, will be published in November 2009.
Tara Nummedal is Associate 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.