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Evelynn M. Hammonds

1953–

United States

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Evelynn Maxine Hammonds (born 1953) 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.

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