Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include modern Latin America, the intersection of science and culture, public health, and scientific and medical exchange in the Global South. Her first book, Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill, won the Robert K. Merton Best Book Prize in Science, Knowledge, and Technology Studies from the American Sociological Association. She is completing two book manuscripts Sanitizing Rebellion: Physician Strikes, Public Health and Repression in Twentieth Century Mexico, which examines the role of healthcare providers as both critical actors in the formation of modern states and as social agitators and her latest project which seeks to re-narrate histories of twentieth century agriculture development aid from the point of view of India and Mexico. She has held numerous grants, including those from the Ford, Mellon, Fulbright, DAAD, and Gerda Henkel Foundations. She was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 2019-2020, and will hold the Dibner Distinguished Fellowship in History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library, 2023-24.