Wangui Muigai

Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Race, Science and Society

Departments/Programs

African and Afro-American Studies
Health: Science, Society, and Policy

Degrees

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

Expertise

History of medicine and science
Race and health
Reproductive politics

Profile

Wangui Muigai is a historian of medicine and science. Her research broadly concerns the history of U.S. health, with particular interests in the role of race, gender, and age in professional and lay health practices. Her current book project explores the medical debates and cultural meanings of black infant mortality from the era of antebellum slavery to the twentieth century. 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
HSSP	110a	Integrative Seminar on Health
HSSP	142a	Health Activism

Awards and Honors

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

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

Scholarship

Muigai, Wangui (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.