History of Science

I am a postdoctoral researcher working at the intersection of early modern European history and the emerging field of Aging Studies. My postdoctoral appointments have taken me to three continents. My previous work, particularly my doctoral research...

Eric Moses Gurevitch is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the medieval and early modern periods, with a focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean. His research tells a global history in which unexpected voices, practices, and events come...

Courtney is broadly interested in early modern disability and medicine. Her Master’s thesis focused on an underutilized religious commentary written by a blind woman in 16th century Germany. The main purpose of her thesis was to better understand the...

• Regions: China; Eurasia; Europe; Iberia; Japan; Low Countries
• Times: 16th to 18th centuries
• Themes: Cultural History; History of the Book; History of Religion; History of Science; Intellectual History

Daniel Said Monteiro received his Ph.D. in...

Jennifer Nelson studies early modern art and cultural production from Europe and its outposts. At Radcliffe she is linking a new theory of art’s emergent properties in the Renaissance with an account of these properties’ misuse in the late 16th century...

• Region: Atlantic World; France
• Time: 17th Century; 18th Century
• Theme: Economic History; History of Empire; History of Science

• Region: Europe
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century
• Theme: Intellectual History; History of Mathematics

Ori Ben-Shalom is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. His dissertation, “Medicine and Historical Practice in Enlightenment Italy,” examines the role of history in the learned medical world of 18th-century Italy. It asks...

• Region: Eastern Mediterranean; Europe; Middle East
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century
• Theme: History of Science; Intellectual History; Philosophy
  

  
  I am a second-year PhD student in Islamic Intellectual History at Harvard’s...