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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in History of Science, Harvard University, 1993; S.M. in Physics, MIT, 1980; B.S. in Physics, Spelman College, 1976.

Research Interests: History of science, race and gender in medicine, science and technology studies.

Appointments: Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University (current); Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Publications:

• Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).

Additional Contributions: Former Dean, Harvard College; co-author, The Nature of Difference (MIT Press).