Job title:
Visiting Scholar
Department:
Berkeley Program in Science and Technology Studies
Office for the History of Science and Technology
Bio/CV:
| Dissertation | “Surviving Experiments: Cancer Research in Uganda 1950s to the Present” |
| Degrees | Ph.D., History and Sociology of Science :: University of Pennsylvania (in progress) MHS :: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (2007) BA, Development Studies, Honors :: University of California, Berkeley (2003) |
My dissertation, tentatively titled “Surviving Experiments: Cancer Research in Uganda 1950s to the Present” is a historical ethnography of how research initiatives on cancer created a fragile but longstanding culture of experimental oncology at the Uganda Cancer Institute. I trace how this small combination chemotherapy research enclave sponsored by the American National Cancer Institute in the 1960s is being refashioned into a space of public oncology in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. My work theorizes how experiments create and shape cultures of care that take on a political and social life of their own, well after the experiments themselves have ended.
last updated: June 29th, 2020