Joanna Radin

Joanna Radin is Assistant Professor in the Section for the History of Medicine, which is part of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.  She holds courtesy appointments in history and anthropology. Radin is also a faculty affiliate of the Yale Group for the Study of Native America and a member of the Histories of Data working group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where she has been a visiting fellow.

She came to Yale in 2012, after completing a PhD in history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on histories of the life and human sciences after World War II. She has particular interests in questions of technology, ontology, and ethics. Her book, tentatively titled “Life on Ice: Cold War, Frozen Blood,” will be published by the University of Chicago Press. A new book project focuses on the interplay of science fiction, fear, and biomedicine.