Myrna Perez

Associate Professor, College of Arts & Sciences · Ohio University

Myrna Perez, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Ohio University, jointly appointed in Classics & Religious Studies and in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She received her PhD from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rice University, and has been a fellow at the Harvard Divinity School, and in the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University. She is the co-editor of Critical Approaches to Science and Religion (Columbia University Press, 2023) and author of Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). Her audio lecture series “The History of Science, Sexuality and Medicine” is available via Audible and Apple Books. Myrna was a featured contributor of the 2023 AAAS documentary “Science as Mastery: A Story of Race and Power.” Her work has been supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Huntington Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.

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