Evelynn M. Hammonds
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Evelynn Maxine Hammonds is an American historian of science and feminist scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and a professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, where she was dean of Harvard College from 2009 to 2013.
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Evelynn Maxine Hammonds is an American historian of science and feminist scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and a professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, where she was dean of Harvard College from 2009 to 2013. The intersections of race, gender, science and medicine are prominent research topics across her published works. 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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