Education
Ph.D., Harvard, 2021
Biography
Brad Bolman is Assistant Professor of History and EVST. His research focuses on the history of science, technology, and medicine and environmental history, with attention to the ways that we come to know and live with nonhuman organisms under capitalist economic systems. His first book, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles, traces the history of experimental dogs across the twentieth century. It shows how attempts to standardize and mass produce laboratory dogs, particularly beagles, transformed scientific research and reshaped the human relationship with Canis familiaris. He is currently at work on a second book, Rotten Beauty, which explores the global history of mycology and fungal biology over the last three centuries.