Gabriela Laveaga - Visitas Thinks Big 2023 - Harvard University

Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her current research interests interrogate knowledge production and circulation between Mexico and India; medical professionals and social movements; and science and development projects in the twentieth century. Her award-winning book Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill won the Robert K. Merton Best Book prize in Science, Knowledge, and Technology Studies from the American Sociological Association. She is completing two book manuscripts: one on doctors as agents of social unrest and her third book examines agricultural science exchange between India and Mexico. She has held numerous grants, including those from the Ford, Mellon, Fulbright, DAAD, Santander, and Gerda Henkel Foundations. She is the current editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the leading publication in the field. She was awarded the 2019 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award and was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for the academic year 2019-2020. In 2023-24 she will hold the Dibner Distinguished Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in Pasadena.