Areas of Specialization - Department Faculty

Mark B. Adams, Ph.D., Associate Professor (e-mail)
History of biology, institutional science, science and politics Russian science and technology; science fiction.

Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D., Associate Professor (e-mail)
History of 20th century disease, epidemiology, and population health; history of breast cancer risk; the social framing of health risks.

David Barnes, Ph.D., Associate Professor (e-mail)
History of medicine; 19th-century France; the bacteriological revolution; the politics of international disease control programs in the twentieth century; history of disgust.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Ph.D., Professor (e-mail)
History of technology; heredity and eugenics; gender and technology; history of genetic screening; history of American women engineers.

Nathan Ensmenger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (e-mail)
History of technology; history of computing; engineering ethics; history of artificial intelligence; social, legal, and ethical implications of information technology.

Steven Feierman, Ph.D., Professor (e-mail)
History of health and healing in Africa, the content and uses of orally transmitted knowledge; the place of knowledge about Africa in the social sciences.

Henrika Kuklick, Ph.D., Professor (e-mail)
History of the human sciences, the sociology of knowledge; colonial science; the development of the human science disciplines.

M. Susan Lindee, Ph.D., Professor (e-mail)
20th century biological and biomedical sciences; radiation biology, human genetics and genomics; science and gender, science and war; history of American science.

Beth Linker, Assistant Professor (e-mail)
History of medicine, 19th and 20th century United States, disability history, gender studies, history of bioethics, health care policy, the body.

Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D., Professor
Bioethics, role of the ethicist, ethics of brain research, medical decision-making.

John Tresch, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (e-mail)
History of science; French romanticism; French Industrial Revolution; history of anthropology.