The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) is proud to announce our new book series Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism, to be published through Johns Hopkins University Press.

About the series

Created by BBQ+ director Ahmed Ragab, Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism (GS-MSRC) launched in November 2022. The radically inclusive series aims to write new histories in cooperation, fellowship, and solidarity, bringing a critical global perspective to the geographies and temporalities of the history of medicine and science. Authors will engage with innovative topics in the field, analyzing their intersections with questions of race and human difference in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

The books in the series will reflect a broad range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and cultural studies, as well as multiple theoretical approaches, such as critical race, postcolonial, Indigenous, queer, and feminist studies, among others.

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About the book development process

Authors and editors will adopt a collaborative model of generosity and mentorship in creating each volume. Collectively, they will rethink each aspect of the writing, editing, and review process, from peer review to academic publishing timelines and priorities.

Fundamental to this collaboration is a mutual commitment to the stories that need to be told and the questions that need to be asked. Through workshops, meet-ups, and writing groups, authors will have the opportunity to shape and refine their manuscripts within a supportive intellectual environment.

Contributing authors

We are grateful for our contributing authors! Learn more about them and their upcoming volumes below.

Questions about the series? Interested in contributing a volume? Please email Ahmed Ragab, ahmed_ragab@bbqplus.org.

Myrna Perez Sheldon

Associate Professor, Classics & Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Executive Director, Cutler Scholar’s Program
Ohio University

Working Book Title: Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy (under contract)

Oge Williams

Assistant Professor, Department of History
Creighton University

Working Book Title: Birth Politics: Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria (under contract)

Geoffrey Bil

Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of Delaware

Working Book Title: Indexing the Indigenous: Plants, Peoples and Empire (under contract)

Laura Stark

Associate Professor, The Center for Medicine, Health and Society
and Department of History
Vanderbilt University

Working Book Title: The Death of Frantz Fanon (under contract)

Rosanna Dent

Assistant Professor, Federated History
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Working Book Title: Studying Indigenous Brazil: Moral Economies of Research in A’uwẽ Territory (under contract)

Kylie Smith

Associate Professor, Woodruff School of Nursing
Emory University

Working Book Title: Do Less Harm: Ethics and the History of Medicine and Health (edited volume, with Courtney Thompson) (in development)

Courtney Thompson

Associate Professor, Department of History
Mississippi State University

Working Book Title: Do Less Harm: Ethics and the History of Medicine and Health (edited volume, with Kylie Smith) (in development)

Dillon Vrana

Associate Professor, History
University of Florida

Working Book Title: New Histories of Disability in Latin America (edited volume, with David Carey) (in development)

David Carey

Professor, History
Loyola University

Working Book Title: New Histories of Disability in Latin America (edited volume, with Dillon Vrana) (in development)

Joseph Vignone

Assistant Professor, Department of History
Gonzaga University

Working Book Title: Bodies of Knowledge: Medicine, Memory, and Enhancement in Medieval Islam (in development)

Eli Nelson

Assistant Professor, American Studies; Science and Technology Studies
Williams College

Working Book Title: Sovereign Knowledge: Native Informants, Settler Occupation, and the Becoming of Native Science (in development)