Rosanna Dent

Research interests: History of science and medicine, modern Latin America, feminist science studies

Rosanna Dent researches at the intersection of history of science and medicine, Latin American history, Native studies, and feminist science and technology studies. Broadly, she is interested in how human interactions unfold in the context of knowledge production, and the implications of these relationships for questions of political and social justice. She has published on twentieth-century histories of human genetics and epidemiology in Brazil and is currently working on two book manuscripts, a monograph on the history of human sciences research in Xavante (Indigenous) communities in Central Brazil and a collaborative compilation and analysis of oral histories of human genetics in Brazil.
In collaboration with colleagues and members of Xavante communities in the Indigenous Territory of Pimentel Barbosa, Mato Grosso, Professor Dent is also working on a digital archive project to return historical documentation and publications produced since the 1950s to the Native communities they document.
Her work has been supported by The Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Max Planck Center for the History of Science, the Social Science Research Council, and Fulbright IIE.