Wangui Muigai

Assistant Professor in African and African American Studies and History

wmuigai@brandeis.edu
781-736-2083
Rabb Graduate Center, 109

Departments/Programs

African and African American Studies
Health: Science, Society, and Policy
History

Degrees

Princeton University, Ph.D.
Princeton University, M.A.
Harvard University, A.B.

Expertise

History of Medicine
History of Science
Race and Science
History and Politics of Reproductive Health

Profile

Wangui Muigai is a historian of medicine and science. Her research broadly concerns the history of health, particularly the role of race and gender in shaping illness experiences, public health policies, and healthcare. Currently, she is working on a book-length project on black infant mortality in the U.S. from slavery to the present. Her research has been supported by several fellowships and grants including through the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, John Hope Franklin Center for African and African American History and Culture, and Virginia Historical Society.

Courses Taught

AAAS	131a	African Americans and Health
AAAS	154b	Race, Science, and Society
HIS/HSSP	142a	Health Activism
HSSP	110a	Integrative Seminar on Health

Awards and Honors

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Faculty Research Fellowship, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania (2019)

HistoryMakers Archive Grant (2018)

History Fellow, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2017)

Shryock Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine (2017)

Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Princeton University (2015 - 2016)

Scholarship

Wangui Muigai. "“Something Wasn’t Clean”: Black Midwifery, Birth, and Postwar Medical Education in All My Babies." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93. 1 (2019): 82–113.

Wangui Muigai (with Felix Rietmann, Mareika Schildmann, Caroline Arni, Daniel T. Cook, Davide Giuriato, Novina Gohlsdorf). "Knowledge of Childhood: Materiality, Text, and the History of Science – An Interdisciplinary Round Table Discussion." The British Journal for the History of Science 50. 1 (2017): 111-141.