Evelynn M. Hammonds

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Evelynn M. Hammonds

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#2870

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#4067

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#1082

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Evelynn M. Hammonds's Degrees

Bachelors Physics Spelman College

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According to Wikipedia, Evelynn Maxine Hammonds is an American feminist and scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College. The intersections of race, gender, science and medicine are prominent research topics across her published works. Hammonds received degrees in engineering and physics. Before getting her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard, she was a computer programmer. She began her teaching career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later moving to Harvard. In 2008, Hammonds was appointed dean, the first African-American and the first woman to head the college. She returned to full-time teaching in 2013.

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Evelynn M. Hammonds's Published Works

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Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality (1994) (263)
The use of race variables in genetic studies of complex traits and the goal of reducing health disparities: a transdisciplinary perspective. (2005) (176)
Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? (2007) (168)
2.3 ‘Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence’ (1999) (85)
The nature of difference : sciences of race in the United States from Jefferson to genomics (2008) (67)
Problems with Using Polygenic Scores to Select Embryos. (2021) (50)
Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society. (2021) (50)
A Conversation on Feminist Science Studies (2003) (30)
Race, populations, and genomics: Africa as laboratory. (2008) (30)
Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619. (2019) (29)
Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (1999) (27)
Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class by (2011) (24)
Reports of the Committees on the Status of Women Faculty (2002) (13)
A Study in Black and White (1989) (12)
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (review) (2002) (10)
Whither Black Women’s Studies: Interview (2008) (6)
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (review) (2003) (6)
5. The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present (2020) (4)
Reconciling Race and Human Adaptability: Carleton Coon and The Persistence of Race in Scientific Discourse (2006) (3)
A Moment or a Movement? The Pandemic, Political Upheaval, and Racial Reckoning (2021) (3)
The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century (2011) (3)
Open Letter to Editors of Journal of the National Medical Association from the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. (2019) (3)
Power and Politics in Feminism's History--and Future (2004) (2)
Commentary--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Managed Competition (2002) (2)
Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876–1938. By Barbara Bates. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. xii 435 pp. Cloth, $45.95, ISBN 0-81223120-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8122-1367-X.) (1993) (1)
Statues: researchers to mind their history (2017) (1)
Underrepresentations. (Book Reviews: Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.) (1991) (1)
Enshrining equity in democracy (2020) (0)
Underrepresentations (1991) (0)
Old Friends, New Faces, and an Intruder (1983) (0)
Trustworthiness matters: Building equitable and ethical science (2023) (0)
Underrepresentations: Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women . Vol. 6, no. 2 (fall 1989), Science and Technology. Sage Women's Educational Press/SAGE, P.O. Box 42741, Atlanta, GA 30311-0741, 1990. 88 pp., illus. Paper, $8. (1991) (0)
Problems With Using Polygenic Scores to Select Embryos (2021) (0)
Whither Black Women's Studies. Interview (1997) (0)
No Trifling Matter (1990) (0)
The Desire to Live (1994) (0)
Putting Morality into Medicine (1993) (0)
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility. (2023) (0)
Racial Categories in Medical Practice: (2019) (0)
45. Straw Men and Their Followers (2019) (0)
Protecting the people who feed us. (1995) (0)
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (review) (1998) (0)
The epistemological effect of excluding African-Americans from physics (2017) (0)

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