History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium

Taylor M. Moore (UC Santa Barbara)

Taylor M. Moore is a historian of science, medicine, and race in the Modern Middle East, specializing in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Egypt. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, decolonial materiality, and histories of science, technology, medicine, and the occult in the non-West. She is invested in illuminating the occult(ed) networks, economies, and actors whose knowledge, bodies, and labor are generally rendered invisible in Eurocentric histories of global science. Her research on amuletic objects, occult texts, and material histories of the body in the late Ottoman world encouraged my exploration into the promise of critical bibliographic methods for writing and teaching the social history of the Middle East.