Faculty – Department of the History of Medicine

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Nicole Labruto, PhD

May 14, 2026

Research Interests Planetary health humanities, anthropology of science, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, environmental anthropology, food systems, plant humanities, Brazil,…

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Stephen Casper, PhD

April 1, 2025

Research Interests The history of traumatic brain injuries and concussions; Physiology in the Anglo-American World in modernity; The politics of neuroscience;…

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Projit Mukharji, PhD

April 1, 2025

Research Interests Race Science, Genetics, Disease Ecologies, Physical Anthropology, Science & the Supernatural, Forensic Science, Nineteenth-Century Chemistry, Colonial & Indigenous Medicines…

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Julia Cummiskey, PhD

July 22, 2024

Research interests History of Global Health, Biomedicine in Africa; Epidemics; Infectious Disease Control; Public Health Campaigns; Health Communication Bio My research…

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Soha Bayoumi, PhD

March 29, 2024

Research Interests The medicine-politics nexus; medical expertise; medicine and gender; medicine and colonialism; graphic medicine; critical visual STS Bio I received…

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Anne Kveim Lie, MD, PhD

October 27, 2022

Research Interests History of sexually transmitted diseases; history of pharmaceuticals and their regulation; history of social medicine and community health care;…

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Lan Li, PHD

September 9, 2022

Research Interests History of East Asian medicine; global Chinese medicine; STS; graphic genre; medical metaphors; anatomical representation; histories of neuroscience; postcolonial…

Cropped portrait of a Ahmed Ragab indoors. They wear a chunky gray zip-up sweater over a black shirt. Behind them is a bookshelf filled with assorted books and a framed photo; a round decorative object with a colorful design sits on the right side of the shelf. The lighting is warm and soft.

Ahmed Ragab, MD, PhD

August 4, 2021

Research Interests History of medieval Islamic medicine; History of colonial and postcolonial medicine and science; gender and sexuality; postcolonial studies; critical…

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Clara Han, PhD

October 1, 2020

Research Interests The overlapping themes of poverty, disease and illness, care and violence, the catastrophic and the everyday; and span the…

H. Yumi Kim, PhD