Degrees:
Ph.D. South & Southeast Asian Studies, Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies and Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality: University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Religious Studies: University of Colorado Boulder
M.A. African Studies: Yale University
B.A. Human Biology: Stanford University
Lisa researches the history of medicine, healing, and gender in premodern South Asia, the contemporary practice of ayurvedic medicine in Kerala, and transnational histories of human-leech medicine. Her work focuses on gendered medical embodiment, sensory expertise, and agency, classification, interspecies medicine, and experiential and sensory research/pedagogical methods in the history of medicine. Lisa is currently writing a book on human-leech medicines. She recently completed a two-year Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta and is a Research Associate with the Suśruta Project/The Compendium of Suśruta in Time and Space that is based there. Lisa is the South Asia Area Editor for the journal Asian Medicine, the Reviews Editor for History of Science in South Asia, and co-convenor of the Consortium of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM) Science in Early Soth Asia Working Group.
