Evelynn Hammonds

Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University.
Professor of African and African American Studies & Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, T. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University.
Director, Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University.
Steering Committee Member, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.
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Research interests: History of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race, the history of disease and public health, gender in science and medicine and African-American history.

This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (last updated 12.28.2025)