Rosanna Dent

Rosanna Dent is Lipton Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Research at NJIT, and was an assistant professor in the Federated Department of History from 2018-2024. She researches at the intersection of history of science and medicine, Latin American history, Native studies, and feminist science and technology studies. Broadly, she is interested in how human interactions unfold in the context of knowledge production, and the implications of these relationships for questions of political and social justice. She has published on twentieth-century histories of human genetics and epidemiology in Brazil and is currently working a monograph on the history of human sciences research in A'uwe (Xavante, Indigenous) communities in Central Brazil.

In collaboration with colleagues and members of A'uwe communities in the Indigenous Territory of Pimentel Barbosa, Mato Grosso, Professor Dent is also working on a digital archive project to return historical documentation and publications produced since the 1950s to the Native communities they document.

Her work has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton NJ), the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Max Planck Center for the History of Science, the Social Science Research Council, and Fulbright IIE.

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