My work focuses on histories of health, the human body, material practices, and knowledge-making about the natural world in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the histories of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora. My new book, Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave and the Invention of the Modern Corporeality, …
I am a geographer who works at the intersection of environmental history, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the history of science with a regional focus on Latin America. My first book, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden was published by Yale University Press in 2019 and …
I have recently published Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (Chicago: 2024). This historical exploration highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. The women’s health movement in the United States, beginning …
I’m a historian of science with interests in the history of astronomy, data and information practices, genres, and print culture. My current research concerns the movement of celestial knowledge, information, and practices within the early modern globe, as well as the history of sinology in early modern Europe. Education Ph.D., University of Chicago, History, 1999 …
My research is aligned on three major axes. First, I have published widely on the implications of psychiatric theories of race for European colonial rule as well as postcolonial migration and citizenship. A second axis is the investigation of disaster mortality and public health crisis in contemporary Europe and the United States. Third, I am …
Devin Kennedy is Assistant Professor of History and the Evelyn and Herbert Howe Bascom Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard and an AB from Princeton in Comparative Literature. Kennedy works across business and economic history, the histories of science and …
I’m a historian of East Africa with a particular emphasis on the Great Lakes region. My research and teaching interests center on medical history, historical anthropology, and multidisciplinary methodologies for writing African history. My first book, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda, examined how the domains of politics and public healing …
I am a historian of 19th and 20th century medicine and public health in the United States. My research examines the relationship between nutritional disease, community health work, and the political economy of capitalism in the U.S. South. Methodologically, my research blends the approaches and insights of social history, labor history, and oral history. I …
My interests include Medicine and society in twentieth-century America; race, medicine, and public health; medicine and popular culture; research ethics; and history of medical ethics. Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1987 M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1979 B.A., Johns Hopkins University, History of Science, 1977 Books Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation …
As a scientist-turned-historian, I specialize in the history of science, medicine, and technology in modern China. My first book project, tentatively titled Biopolitical Socialism: Antibiosis, Scientific Capital, and China’s Cold War Rationality, 1949–90, demonstrates how biotechnology played a central role in transforming the peasant-based Chinese Communist Party into a thriving modern industrial regime. The book …