Evelynn M. Hammonds

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harvard University, Spelman College

Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. This academic year she is the inaugural Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies at Spelman College. Her research focuses on the history of scientific, medical and socio-political concepts of race, gender and sexuality in the histories of medicine, science and public health in the United States.