Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her award-winning first book Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill narrated the impact of the search for medicinal plants at the local, national, and global scales and it won a Best Book prize from the American Sociological Association. She is completing two book manuscripts: one on doctors as agents of social unrest and her third book which examines agricultural science exchange between India and Mexico. One of her recent articles “Beyond Borlaug's Shadow: Octavio Paz, Indian Farmers, and the Challenge of Narrating the Green Revolution” won the 2023 Best Article Prize from the Latin American Studies Association, the largest organization in the world for scholars working on Latin America. She currently holds the Dibner Distinguished Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in California where she is completing a sabbatical. In addition to serving on several journal editorial boards she is co-editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the official publication of the American Association for History of Medicine.