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Faculty, Listed by Department:

History of Science and Technology Faculty

Robert H. Kargon, Ph.D.: Willis K. Shepard Professor of the History of Science; History of physics, science and social change; history of science in America.

Sharon Kingsland, Ph.D.: Department Chair and Professor; History of biology, especially ecology, genetics and behavioral biology; history of science in America.

Stuart W. Leslie, Ph.D.: Professor; History of technology, history of science-based industry, history of 20th century American science.

Morris Low, Ph.D.: Adjunct Associate Professor, History of East Asian Science and Technology. Japanese physics and technology, cultural history of science in Japan. (Associate Professor at University of Queensland, Australia).

Lawrence M. Principe, Ph.D. (Chemistry), Ph.D. (History of Science): Drew Professor of the Humanities; History of alchemy/chemistry, especially in the early modern period; science and religion, chemical education.

Min Suh Son, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor; Korean history, East Asian history of technology.

Fellows and Visiting Faculty

Joan Lisa Bromberg, Ph.D.: Visiting Scholar; Author, NASA and the Space Industry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); The Laser in America, 1950-1970 (MIT Press, 1991)

Dong-Won Kim, Ph.D.: Visiting Associate Professor; (formerly Associate Professor, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology); Author of The Emergence of the Cavendish School: An Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1900 (Elsevier, 2001)

Buhm Soon Park, Ph.D.: Visiting Scholar; Associate Historian, National Institutes of Health; Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology.  History of the Biomedical Sciences in the 20th Century; History of Quantum Chemistry; Currently writing a book on the history of NIH, 1937-1987.

Peter Shulman, Ph.D.: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow; History of Environmentalism, especially as related to energy; energy and environment in Chesapeake Bay region.

Elizabeth Rodini: Senior Lecturer, History of Art Department; Associate Director of the Museum and Society undergraduate program.

Michael Dennis, Fellow-by-Courtesy.

Susan Morris, Fellow-by-Courtesy. 

History of Medicine Faculty

Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus); History of surgery, history of medical education.

Nathaniel C. Comfort, Ph.D.: Associate Professor; History of biology, especially genetics, molecular biology, and biomedicine; history of recent science, oral history and interviewing. Current project: History of human and medical genetics in America.

Mary E. Fissell, Ph.D.: Professor; European health care and popular medicine, 17th and 18th centuries; early modern gender and the body.

Marta Hanson, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor in the History of East Asian Medicine; History of Chinese science and medicine; history of epidemics and disease in China.

Harry M. Marks, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, E. Treide and A.M. Harvey Professorship in the History of Medicine; History of 20th century medicine; history of disease; history of public health.

Graham Mooney, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor; Adjunct appointment in the Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health; History of Public health 19th and 20th centuries; historical epidemiology; historical demography; disease surveillance and risk.

Randall M. Packard, Ph.D.: Director and William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine; social history of disease and healing in Africa; history of public health; history of colonial and post-colonial medicine; Co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

Gianna Pomata, Ph.D.: Professor; medieval and Renaissance European medicine; natural history; Italy; history of history and of scholarship

Christine A. Ruggere: Associate Director and Curator, Historical Collection, Institute of the History of Medicine, and Lecturer in the History of Medicine.

Daniel P. Todes, Ph.D.: Professor; History of Russian medicine and science; social relations of scientific thought; history of biomedical sciences. Currently writing a biography of Ivan Pavlov.


Associated Faculty

Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D.: Chief of the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.

James D. Goodyear, Ph.D.: Senior Lecturer and Associate Directory, Public Health Studies Program: History of tropical medicine, history of 18th-19th-century Latin America.

Nancy McCall: Research Associate, Archivist Alan M. Chesney Archives.

Gerard Shorb: Research Associate, Archivist Alan M. Chesney Archives.

Arthur M. Silverstein, Ph.D.: Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine; History of immunology.

Visiting Faculty and Fellows 2007-2008

Lihong Du, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; public health administration in China, 19th-20th centuries.

Dan O'Connor, Ph.D., a Greenwall Foundation postdoctoral fellow, jointly in the Institute for the History of Medicine and the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Medical decision-making and choice in twentieth-century America and Britain, including transsexuality, elective amputation, contraception, and performance enhancing drugs.