The Program for the Study of Race & Gender in Science & Medicine (RGSM) is an intellectual center that promotes scholarship, research, policy and public education for understanding how scientific, medical and technological ideas and practices contribute to and construct notions of difference in our multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
One of the signature projects of this new Program will focus on the persistent under-representation of African Americans and other groups in scientific, technical, and mathematical (STEM) and fields. At this moment when technological innovation...
Director, Project for the Study of Race & Gender in Science & Medicine Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science Assoc. Faculty MIT/Harvard Broad Institute
Professor Hammonds was the first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University (2005-2008). From 2008, -2103 ...
2012 Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds, “ The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present” in Wailoo, Nelson, et al, editors, Genetics and the Unsettled Past (Rutgers University Press, 2011)
2008 Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds, Race, “Population, and Genomics: Africa as laboratory,” Social Science and Medicine, vol. 30 (2008) pp. 1-9
2007 Evelynn Hammonds (w co-authors) “Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?” PLOS Medicine, vol. 4, issue 9, (Sept. 2007...
Director, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at...
The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine is affiliated with a number of other centers and institutions both within and outside Harvard University. The Project is housed within
