Nayanika Ghosh

Nayanika Ghosh is a historian of biology and social movements in the 20th century. At the Science History Institute she will work on her first monograph tentatively titled “Biology Without History: The Sociobiology Debate and the Backlash Against Radical Science.” Biology Without History is based on her doctoral dissertation that examined the suppression of radical science in the United States during the Cold War by expanding and exploring the archive of a scientific controversy called “the sociobiology debate.” Her work has previously been supported by the American Philosophical Society, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Center for Humanities and History of Modern Biology, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.