Rosanna Dent

Lipton Lecturer in Recent History of Science, Medicine and Technology

I work at the intersection of history of science and medicine, Latin American history, Indigenous studies, and feminist science and technology studies. Broadly, I am 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. I have published on twentieth-century histories of human genetics and epidemiology in Brazil and am currently working on 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, I also work on Rowasu'u, a digital archive project to return historical documentation and publications produced since the 1950s to the Indigenous communities they document.

I am fortunate to have had support from the US National Science Foundation, 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.

Rowasu'u: An A'uwẽ Archive of Scientific Objects. Collaborative community archive project with Aldeias Pimentel Barbosa, Etênhiritipá, Paraíso, Santa Vitória, Soripẽ, Wederã and with James R. Welch, Lori Jahnke, and Laura R. Graham.

História oral da genética humana UFRGS. Co-coordinated with Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes.