Ahmed Ragab Email & Phone Number

I am the incoming Welsh Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Williams College, and the founding director of the Center for Black, Brown and Queer Studies. I received my MD from Cairo University in 2005, and my PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris in 2010. I am the author of The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion and Charity (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam (Routledge Press, 2018), and Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh (Routledge Press, 2019).I am working on two new book projects. The first, co-authored with Prof. Katharine Park, is entitled Communities of Knowledge: Science in Medieval Europe and Islamdom (Under contract with Princeton University Press), and traces a connected history of science across traditional geographic and temporal boundaries using objects to investigate scientific thought and practice. The second, entitled Around the Clock: Time in Medieval Islamic Clinical Culture (Under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press), analyzes time as an epistemic and cultural category in medical thought and practice.My research focuses on a number of areas: 1. History of Islamic medicine2. Colonial and postcolonial medicine and health3. Access to healthcare and health disparities esp in relation to race, gender and sexuality4. Medical ethics5. Gender, Sexuality and medicine.