Participant Info
- First Name
- Gaby
- Last Name
- Baez
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- margabrielabaez@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Harvard University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- History of Medicine, Mexico, midwives, plant medicine, healing and ritual, indigenous technology, femme technology, witchcraft, religion, race and identity
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
PhD student at Harvard University, History of Science. Latina, single mother historian. I study the history of female healers and their relationships to authoritative sciences in Mexico. I focus on race and gender in the context of healing, ritual, and religion. I am interested in the epistemological history of plant medicine and the ways specific communities experienced wellness through an examination of gendered and indigenous (mainly Nahua) technologies of healing. I have experience working with Mexican Inquisition documents and I love to do paleography and translation of documents. My Master’s thesis was about midwives in 18th-Century Mexico.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Mexico
- Expertise by Geography
- Latin America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Family, Gender, Medicine, Race, Religion, Science, Sexuality, Technology, Women
