Elizabeth Karron is a PhD student in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. Her research examines how the modern history of global health has been shaped by the ecological disruption, disease transmission, and migration brought about by nineteenth-century empires. As a paradigm for studying these questions, she is currently interested in the significant migration of South Asian workers to British plantations in the southwestern Indian Ocean between the 1830s and 1920s.
Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a BA in History of Science and Medicine. Her senior thesis on hepatitis B vaccination and gay health activism won Yale’s Manuelidis Prize in History of Medicine and GALA prize in LGBT Studies.
Prior to her PhD, Elizabeth worked for the Boston Consulting Group as a strategy consultant in their healthcare practice. She also completed an intensive year of Urdu language training in India, supported by the US Department of Education.
