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Myrna Perez is Associate Professor at 51社区, jointly appointed in Classics & Religious Studies and in Women鈥檚, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Science from Harvard University. She was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rice University and has been a fellow at the Harvard Divinity School and in the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University.

She is the co-editor of Critical Approaches to Science and Religion(opens in a new window) (Columbia University Press, 2023) and author of Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy, forthcoming Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. Her audio lecture series "The History of Science, Sexuality and Medicine" is available via Audible(opens in a new window) and Apple Books(opens in a new window).

Her work has been supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company Philadelphia, the Huntington Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History