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Biography

Dr. Donald W. Schaffner is the Department Chair, a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, and Extension Specialist in Food Science. His research interests include quantitative microbial risk assessment, predictive food microbiology, handwashing and cross-contamination. Dr. Schaffner has authored more than 190 peer-reviewed publications, and numerous book chapters and abstracts. He has been the recipient of more than $9 million in grants and contracts, a majority in the form of competitive national grants.

Dr. Schaffner has educated thousands of Food Industry professionals through numerous short courses and workshops in the United States and dozens of countries around the world. Dr. Schaffner was awarded the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Elmer Marth Educator Award in 2009 for outstanding service to the public and IAFP in the area food safety and food protection education. He was also awarded the IAFP Maurice Weber Laboratorian Award in 2020 for outstanding contributions in the laboratory, recognizing a commitment to the development of inno

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Faculty

Assistant Professor of the History of Science

Areas of Research: History of Medicine; History of Social Sciences; Global Health; Postcolonial Studies; Immigration... Read more about Eram Alam

Joseph Pellegrino University Professor

Areas of Research: Digital Humanities / Digital Histories,History of Environmental Sciences, History of Physical Sciences, Material Culture, Media Studies, Museum Studies, Philosophy of Science, Science & Technology Studies... Read more about Peter L. Galison

Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science
Professor of African and African American Studies & Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, T. Chan School of Public Health

Areas of Research: African & African-American Studies, History of Medicine, Science & Race, Science & Technology Studies, Women & Gender Studies... Read more about Evelynn Hammonds

Faculty Assistant: Ellen Guarente
guarente@fas.harvard.edu
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Anne Harrington

Areas of Research: History of Medicine, Human Sciences, Medical Humanities, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Mind-Body Medicine, Neuroscience, Consciousness Studies

Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, specializing in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and the other mind and behavioral sciences. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Oxford University. Prior to arriving at Harvard, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has served as Department Chair (2007-2010, 2012-13), and was also Director of Undergraduate Studies for more than a decade (2010-22). In the fall of 2024, she will be Acting Director of Graduate Studies.

Interdisciplinary collaboration across science and the humanities has been an important goal of her work as a scholar for many years. For six years, she co-directed Harvard's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. For seven years, she was a member of the MacA