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faculty
Yulia Frumer
Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professorship of East Asian Science, Associate Professor and Chair
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 380
- 410-516-7507
Research Interests: Science and technology in East Asia, especially Japan; science and technology transfer; scientific translation; measurement instruments; humanoid robotics; science fiction.
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Lijing Jiang
Assistant Professor
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 378
- 410-516-7504
Research Interests: History of Biology and Biotechnology; China, Japan, and Asia; Model Organisms; Environmental History
Education: PhD, Arizona State University
Alison McManus
Assistant Professor
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- Gilman 361
- 410-516-7738
Research Interests: Chemical Warfare, Information Control, Chemical Sciences
Education: PhD
Joris Mercelis
Assistant Professor
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- Gilman 382
- 410-516-4485
Research Interests: history of modern technology and business, especially in the field of chemistry; science-industry relations; knowledge sharing and intellectual property; academic entrepreneurship.
Education: PhD, Ghent University
Lawrence M. Principe
Drew Professor of the Humanities; Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
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- Gilman 376
- 410-516-4807
Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology, especially the history of alchemy/chemistry and issues of science and theology/religion
Education: PhD, History of Science, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Organic Chemistry, Indiana University
joint faculty
Nathaniel Comfort
Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine
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- 443-287-6146
Research Interests: History of biology, especially genetics, molecular biology, and biomedicine; history of recent science; oral history.
Julia Cummiskey
Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: History of Global Health, Biomedicine in Africa; Epidemics; Infectious Disease Control; Public Health Campaigns; Health Communication
Mary E. Fissell
Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine
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- [email protected]
- 410-614-0286
Research Interests: European health care and popular medicine, 17th-18th centuries; early modern gender and the body; co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Jeremy A. Greene
William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and History of Medicine; Director, Institute of the History of Medicine; Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine; Chair Medicine, Science, and the Humanities
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- [email protected]
- 410-955-4899
Research Interests: History of modern medicine; history of technology; history of disease; history of therapeutics; media history; global health; medical anthropology
Graham Mooney
Associate Professor, History of Medicine; Associate Professor, Epidemiology; Director of Graduate Studies, HOM
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- 443-287-6147
Research Interests: History of public health, 19th-20th centuries; infectious disease surveillance and control; historical geographies of health and medicine; historical epidemiology and demography; Co-editor of Social History of Medicine
professor emeriti
Robert Kargon
Emeritus Professor
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- Gilman 378
- 410-516-7504
Research Interests: History of the physical sciences; science and social change; history of science and technology in America
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Sharon Kingsland
Emerita Professor
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Research Interests: History of modern biology, especially ecology, genetics, physiology, and behavioral biology; science in America; environmental sciences; urban ecology
Education: PhD, 1981, University of Toronto
Stuart W. Leslie
Emeritus Professor
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 363
Research Interests: History of technology; history of science-based industry; regional economic geography; science and architecture
Education: PhD, University of Delaware
María M. Portuondo
Emerita Professor
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Research Interests: Early modern cosmography; astronomy and natural history; early modern natural philosophy; science and technology in Spain and Latin America
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
staff
visiting scholar
fellows & visiting faculty
Meagan S. Allen
Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Gilman 374
Research Interests: History of Alchemy; History of Pharmacology; Medieval Science; Science and Religion; Humoral theory and the Prolongatio vitae
Education: PhD, Indiana University