Critical Approaches in Science, Technology, and Medicine

专业详情

CAST-M is a fully-funded MA program which supports paths to further doctoral study for emerging scholars from backgrounds that are traditionally marginalized in STEM-adjacent humanities fields. We aim to help CAST-M students develop incisive analytical skills for research in fields such as science studies, medical humanities, medical anthropology, history of science and technology, and history of medicine.

Students engaging with the following subjects are strongly encouraged to apply: social dimensions of science, medicine, technology, and engineering; these fields’ intersections with questions of race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism; and their engagement with sites in the Global South and in communities subject to systemic discrimination. We especially welcome interdisciplinary exploration into these pressing issues. A focus on the relevance of these histories to STEM-adjacent humanities fields offers urgently-relevant insights into the production and reproduction of race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism in everyday life.

In addition to full stipend, tuition, and benefits, the program also offers personalized advising from dedicated faculty, small class sizes, strong links to other Hopkins departments such as Anthropology and History, as well as a close-knit, collegial program culture.