last updated May 26, 2025
Director of CSTMS
Associate Professor, Department of History
Director, MEDS
University of California, Berkeley
Sandra Eder's research interests are the history of medicine with a focus on gender, sexuality, and race, clinical practice, patient records, and the circulation of knowledge. She is interested in the emergence of modern ideas about the self and formulations of identity through scientific knowledge production and in medical practice. Her book, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea (University of Chicago Press, 2022), shortlisted for the 2025 William H. Welch Medal, examines the emergence of our modern sex/gender binary in mid-twentieth century clinical practices in the U.S. She is also co-editor of Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children (Rutgers University Press, 2021) which explores how gender has served as one of the frameworks for pediatric care since the specialty’s inception.
Currently, she is working on her second book on The Science of Happiness: Gender, Identity, and Measurement. She is also developing a new research project on the global circulation of knowledge about gender and gender diversity in the 19th and 20th century with a focus on the translation and adaptation of medical case studies.
Director, PhD Designated Emphasis in STS
Professor, Department of History
Director, OHST
University of California, Berkeley
CSTMS Research Unit: Office for the History of Science and Technology, CSTMS
Massimo Mazzotti's research interests lie at the intersection of the history of science and science studies. He is especially interested in the historicity and situatedness of mathematics, logic, and deductive reasoning, and in the social processes that can make them universally valid. He is also interested in using technological systems and artifacts as ways of entry for the explorations of specific forms of social organization and power distribution. His past and present research projects have focused primarily on the early modern and Enlightenment period, with significant incursions into the nineteenth and twentieth century.