Evelynn Hammonds
Evelynn Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and a professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her areas of research include race and gender in science studies; the histories of science, medicine and public health in the United States; feminist theory; and African American history. Her current work focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race in the United States. She is the author of Childhood’s Deadly Scourge and The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics.