Brad Bolman
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session I
Image Credit: Maria O'Leary / Institute for Advanced Study"
Brad Bolman is an Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Tulane University. His research explores how humans come to understand themselves and other organisms through the intersecting lenses of environment, science, medicine, technology, and capitalism.
His first book, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles, traces the emergence of the laboratory dog as an experimental subject across fields including eugenics, radiobiology, pharmacology, tobacco research, and neuroscience. The book examines how dogs became transnational laboratory commodities and how scientists, through their work with beagles, shaped evolving ideas about humanity and scientific practice.
His forthcoming book, Rotten Beauty, explores the history of mycology through a character-driven account of botanists, amateur collectors, doctors, and industrial scientists who spent centuries attempting to understand fungi. The book will be published by Knopf.
https://brad.bolman.com