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...
Molly Taylor-Poleskey is an early modern European cultural historian and digital humanist. She is the Map Librarian at...
Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...
Briana Brightly is a Ph.D. candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion. Her dissertation, titled “Anatomy of the Buddha: Making Images during the Golden Age of Tibetan Medicine, 1600–1800,” investigates the intersection of medicine and Buddhist...
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...
