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Udodiri R. Okwandu26 Lincoln Parkway, Somerville, MA 02143udodiriokwandu@g.harvard.edu | 909 – 631 - 7174EDUCATIONHarvard University Cambridge, MADoctor of Philosophy, History of Science Expected May 2024Harvard College Cambridge, MABachelor of Arts in History and Science, cum laude; Secondary in Global Health & Health Policy. GPA: 3.748 May 2017Thesis: Violence and the (Black) Brain: Law and Order Politics and the Biomedicalization of Urban Rioting and Violence, 1960 – 1975 RESEARCH INTERESTS History of Medicine and ScienceHistory of Reproductive HealthHealth PolicyCritical Race TheoryTheories in Gender and SexualityAfricana StudiesUnited States HistorySocial MovementsWomen’s HistoryAWARDS & HONORSPresidential Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science 2018 – 24Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2017FELLOWSHIPS Hiebert Conference Travel Fellowship, Department of History of Science, Harvard University 2019Junior Fellow, Center for Black Brown, and Queer Studies 2019- 2020PRESENTATIONSInvited Lectures“Violence and the (Black) Brain: Law and Order Politics and the Biomedicalization of Urban Rioting December 2019 and Violence, 1960 – 1975.” DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill CornellMedical College, New York, New York.“The History of Medical and Scientific Racism in America.” Tufts University School of Medicine, May 2019Boston, MA.“The History of Racism in Medicine, Public Health, and Science and Why it Matters.” Institute for April 2019Healthcare Improvement, Boston, MA.“The History of Medical and Scientific Racism in America.” NOVA’s CafeSci Boston at WGBH February 2019Forum Network, Boston, MA.Workshop Presentations“Violence and the (Black) Brain: Law and Order Politics and the Biomedicalization of Urban Rioting November 2019And Violence, 1960 – 1975.” Modern Sciences Working Group, Department of the History of Science,Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. “The Twisted Womb: The Life and Death of the Uterine Fibroids Research and Education Act, 1988 to October 2018Present.” History of Medicine Working Group, Department of the History of Science, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA.RESEARCH EXPERIENCEResearch Assistant, Professor Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University June 2019 – September 2019Scholar and Researcher, Centers for Disease Control Undergraduate June 2016 – August 2016Public Health Scholars Program, Los Angeles, CA.Research and Digital Content Intern, Community Conversations: A Black Women’sDecember 2015 – January 2017Health Initiative, Cambridge, MAResearch Assistant, Harvard Global Health Institute, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. June 2015 – August 2015WORKS IN PROGRESS“Violence and the (Black) Brain: Law and Order Politics and the Biomedicalization of Urban Rioting and Violence, 1960 – 1975.” Article manuscript in progress, to be submitted for publication in fall 2019.ADVISING EXPERIENCEMentor, Greener Scott Scholars Program, Harvard University September 2019 – PresentNon-Resident Tutor, Mather House, Harvard University January 2019 – PresentNon-Resident Tutor, Leverett House, Harvard University January 2019 – PresentUndergraduate Academic Advisor, Department of History and Science, Harvard University December 2018 - PresentLEADERSHIP EXPERIENCEStudent Leader, History of Science Graduate Student Association, Harvard University Fall 2019 – PresentCoordinator, History of Medicine Working Group, Department of the History of Science, Fall 2019 - PresentHarvard University, Cambridge, MA. RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEResearch Analyst in the Information Technology Practice, Gartner, Arlington, VA.July 2017 – July 2018LANGUAGESpanish (Verbal and Written – Intermediate)PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONSHistory of Science SocietyAmerican Association for the History of MedicineREFERENCESAvailable upon request ................
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