Spooooky Suman Seth
@alltoosuman.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine. Proponent of Postcolonial science studies. Author of Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (Cambridge, 2018); Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory (MIT)
Pffft. Every academic knows what a faculty meeting is.
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Pffft. Every academic knows what a faculty meeting is.
Love it when brilliant former students publish their first book. ❤️
March 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Love it when brilliant former students publish their first book. ❤️
Genuinely delights me that Ted Porter’s Genetics in the Madhouse is right next to Roy Porter’s Flesh in the Age of Reason on my bookshelf.
March 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Genuinely delights me that Ted Porter’s Genetics in the Madhouse is right next to Roy Porter’s Flesh in the Age of Reason on my bookshelf.
And so, the end times begins.
January 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And so, the end times begins.
And in case you want a short primer (fewer than 8 pages of text!) on Postcolonial STS by me and Itty Abraham, here's the first page of that...
November 14, 2024 at 1:51 PM
And in case you want a short primer (fewer than 8 pages of text!) on Postcolonial STS by me and Itty Abraham, here's the first page of that...
Are you interested in the relationships between Indigenous and Postcolonial Science Studies? Do I have the article for you! Apparently one can't (yet) post pdfs on this site, so here's the first page as a tease. Email or DM me for the whole thing.
November 14, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Are you interested in the relationships between Indigenous and Postcolonial Science Studies? Do I have the article for you! Apparently one can't (yet) post pdfs on this site, so here's the first page as a tease. Email or DM me for the whole thing.
Teaching a revamped version of my history of race class this semester. Here are some of the texts, by some of the best historians of race science/medicine working in English today.
October 2, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Teaching a revamped version of my history of race class this semester. Here are some of the texts, by some of the best historians of race science/medicine working in English today.