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Yulia Frumer
Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professorship of East Asian Science, Associate Professor and Chair
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- yfrumer@jhu.edu
- 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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- ljiang@jhu.edu
- Gilman 367
- 410-516-7505
Research Interests: History of Biology and Biotechnology; China, Japan, and Asia; Model Organisms; Environmental History
Education: PhD, Arizona State University
Robert Kargon
Research Professor
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- kargon@jhu.edu
- 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
Alison McManus
Assistant Professor
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- amcmanus@jhu.edu
- Gilman 361
- 410-516-7738
Research Interests: Chemical Warfare, Information Control, Chemical Sciences
Education: PhD
Joris Mercelis
Assistant Professor
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- jmercelis@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- lmafp@jhu.edu
- 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
Contact Information
- comfort@jhmi.edu
- 443-287-6146
Research Interests: History of biology, especially genetics, molecular biology, and biomedicine; history of recent science; oral history.
Mary E. Fissell
Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine
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- mfissell@jhmi.edu
- 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
Professor, E. Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the Department of the History of Medicine
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- greene@jhmi.edu
- 410-955-4899
Research Interests: Twentieth-century clinical medicine; therapeutics; pharmaceuticals; global health; history of disease
Graham Mooney
Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- gmooney3@jhmi.edu
- 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
Elizabeth O’Brien
Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine
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Research Interests: Medical research in modern Latin America; surgery; embryology and obstetrics; positivism; religion and medicine.
Gianna Pomata
Professor Emerita in the Department of the History of Medicine.
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Research Interests: Cultural and social history of early modern European medicine; women’s and gender history; history of cognitive practices, categories and genres.
Daniel P. Todes
Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Medicine
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- dtodes@jhmi.edu
- 410-955-7079
Research Interests: Social relations of scientific thought; history of biomedical and biological sciences; history of medicine and science in Russia
professor emeriti
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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- swleslie@jhu.edu
- 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
Heather A Dozier
Academic Program Administrator
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- hdozier1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 301
- 410-516-7501
fellows & visiting faculty
Meagan S. Allen
Visiting Assistant Professor
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- malle104@jh.edu
- 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