Cohen Hall

Adrien Gau

 Adrien Gau poses in the likeness of two Vesalius anatomical artworks

Doctoral Candidate2020 Cohort, they/them/theirs

Education

M.Phil., Health, Medicine, and Society, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

B.S., Geology and Geophysics (Paleontology and Geobiology), Yale University

Research Interests

authenticity in the pursuit of health; the pathological & the state; natural history, empire, & classification schemes; histories of plastic surgery & trans medicine; postmodernism; Taiwan

Courses Taught

TA for:

  • HSOC 010 (now 0480): Health & Societies, Prof. Ramah McKay, Fall '21
  • HSOC 145 (now 0490): Comparative Medicine, Prof. Projit Mukharji, Spring '22
  • STSC 0100 (formerly 001): Emergence of Modern Science, Prof. Harun Küçük, Fall '22
  • HSOC 1401 (formerly 112): The People's Health, Prof. David Barnes, Spring '23
  • HSOC 0480: Health & Societies, Prof. Ramah McKay, Spring '24
Selected Publications

[Conference talk] Legacies of Imperialism in Transgender Plastic Surgery in Taiwan
(台灣性別肯定手術的帝國主義之遺產) -- History of Science Society (2024), Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Rosario, Andre A., Adrien Gau, Ellen Munsterman, and April J. Ancheta. "Decolonizing nursing for health equity: A scoping review." Nursing Outlook 72, no. 5 (2024): 102230.

[Conference talk] "Normalizing Surgery Beyond Intersex: The Case of Funnel Chest" -- American Association for the History of Medicine (2022), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Field, D. J., LeBlanc, A., Gau, A., & Behlke, A. D. (2015). Pelagic neonatal fossils support viviparity and precocial life history of C retaceous mosasaurs. Palaeontology, 58(3), 401-407.

Sullivan, S. P., Grande, L., Gau, A., & McAllister, C. S. (2012). Taphonomy in North America's Most Productive Freshwater Fossil Locality: Fossil Basin, Wyoming. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 2012(5), 1-4.