Current Projects
Sanitizing Rebellion: Physicians, Social Unrest, and Repression in Twentieth Century Mexico — book project
Seeds of Agriculture Innovation: Hybrid Wheat and Knowledge Transfer in Mexico and India — book project
Select Publications
“Rogue Seeds in Disturbed Fields” Isis, volume 13, num 3, September 2022.
“Poverty Alleviation from the Margins: Mexico’s COPLAMAR as a Challenge to 1980s Global Health and Economic Models” Hispanic American Historical Review. 102:4, Fall 2022: 673-704.
“Of Canals, Rivers, and the Right to Exist: New(?) Methodological Tools for a Changed World,” Science, Technology and Society. (2022): 1-6.
“Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Octavio Paz and Mexican Hybrid Seeds in India,” Agricultural History, Fall 2021 (95.4).
“Doña Hermila: Zapotec Healer and Media Star,” in Diego Armus and Pablo Gomez, The Gray Zones of Healing. University of Pittsburg Press, 2021.
The socialist origins of the Green Revolution: Pandurang Khankhoje and domestic ‘technical assistance’, History and Technology, 36:3-4, 2020: 337-359.
(with Warwick Anderson, guest editors.) “Forum: Decolonizing Histories in Theory and Practice,” History and Theory: 59 (2020), 2.
“Cold War Mexico in a Time of ‘Wonder Drugs,’” Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López in Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020:86-106.
“Moving from, and beyond, invented categories: afterwords,” Decolonizing Histories in Theory and Practice. Forum of History and Theory, 59:3, 2020: 439-447. Download here.
“Largo dislocare: connecting microhistories to remap and recenter histories of science,” History and Technology, 34:1, 2018: 21-30. Download here.
(with Pablo Gomez, editors). “Introduction,” Special Issue on Sciences from “Over There,” History and Technology, 34:1, 2018: 5-10. Download here.
“Race and the Epigenetics of Memory,” Kalfou: Special Issue on Race and Science. Volume 5, Issue 1 Spring 2018: 54-60. Download here.
“Seeing the countryside through medical eyes: social service reports in the making of a sickly nation.” Endeavour, 37:1, 2013: 29-38. Download here.
Soto Laveaga, Gabriela et al “Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution,” Agriculture History, vol. 91, num. 3, Summer 2017:397-422.
“Una enfermedad monstruo: Indígenas derribando el cerco de la discriminación en salud,” Review. Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 96, no. 4 (November 2016).
“Medicalizing the Borders of an Expanding State: Physicians Reporting from the Frontier of Mexican Progress, 1930-1950,” in W. I. Lee, John W.I. and Michael North, Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
“Building the Nation of the Future, One Waiting Room at a Time: Hospitals in the Making of Modern Mexico,” History and Technology, edited by John Krige and Jessica Wang, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 2015, pages 275-294.
“Mexico’s Historical Solutions to Rural Health,” in Health for All the Journey to Universal Health Coverage. York: Center for Global Health Histories, 2015.
“Shadowing the Professional Class: Reporting Fictions in Doctors’ Strikes” Special issue on secret service archives. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, Summer 2013, 19:1, 30-40.
“Introduction: Continuity and Change in the History of Mexican Public Health” as guest co-editor with Ben Smith for Endeavour‘s special issue on History of Public Health in Mexico. Endeavour, vol. 37, Issue 1, 2013: 1-3.
“Science and Public Health in the Century of Revolution,” in Beezley, William. A Companion to Mexican History and Culture. John Wiley & Sons, 2011: 561-574.
“Médicos, Hospitales y Servicios de Inteligencia” in Salud Colectiva. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, 7(1), Enero-Abril, 2011: 87-97.
“Searching for Molecules, Finding Rebellion: Echeverría’s ‘Arriba y Adelante’ Populism in Southeastern Mexico” in Populism in twentieth century Mexico: the presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, edited by Amelia Kiddle and Maria Muñoz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press: 2010: pp. 87-105.
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of The Pill (Duke University Press, 2009). Winner of the 2010 Robert K. Merton Best Book Award in Science, Knowledge and Technology from the American Sociological Association
“Let’s Become Fewer”: Soap Operas, The Pill and Population Campaigns, 1976-1986, Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal. September 2007, vol. 4, no. 3., 19-33.
“Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants and the Search for a Wild Yam Studies” in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science, Vol. 36, no. 4, December, pp. 743-760. Winner of 2007 Best Article Prize for Science, Health and Society Section of Latin American Studies Association.
Articles In Progress
“When the Baker is the Knowledge Maker,” Article in Progress.
“Technology, Difference and Power: Sonoran Irrigation Canals and the Panama Canal as Sites of Erased Histories and Peoples” in Dagmar Schafer et al Oxford History of Technology. Accepted & Forthcoming.
“Invisible Labour: Power” in Jenny Bangham et al Invisible Labour. Accepted & Forthcoming.
Select Press/Media
“India’s other China problem.” (2020, June 19). Himal Magazine. Read here.
Gordon, E. (2019, September 11). “How disease is used to deny entry at US borders.” The World. Read here.
Martínez, G. (2019, April 26). “La mexicana que combate la historia oficial de la ciencia.” InnovaSpainˆ. Read here
McCoy, N. (2018, October 3).“Preparing for future pandemics by learning from the past” Harvard Public Health. Read here.
Select Videos
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. (2020, November 18). Water Challenges on the U.S.- Mexico Border [Video]. YouTube. Watch here.
Science Gallery Bengaluru . (2020, September 9). Solving the Problem of Hunger: Question and Answer Session with Gabriela Soto Laveaga [Video]. YouTube. Watch here.
Institute for Advanced Study. (2020, March 10). Global Hunger/Scientific Solutions?: A “universal” solution to end world hunger [Video]. YouTube. Watch here.
Harvard Global Health Institute. (2020, Feb 25). Mexico’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic [Video]. YouTube. Watch here.
