Faculty Fellow

Michael Rossi

Associate Professor of History University of Chicago

Biography

Michael Rossi is an historian of medicine and science in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. His work focuses on the historical and cultural metaphysics of the body: how different people at different times understood questions of beauty, truth, falsehood, pain, pleasure, goodness, and reality vis-à-vis their corporeal selves and those of others.

To learn more about his research and publications, please visit his profile page.

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Featured Project

Illustration of an Indigo branch, a cempazuchitl flower, and a grana cochinilla.

The Diversity of Color: Safeguarding Natural Dye Sources and Practices in Michoacán and Oaxaca

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2024 – 2025

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Projects

Loïc Charles Paris 8

This project supported the Visiting Fellowship of Loïc Charles, who pursued research interests in the history of political economy, economic history, and the history of science with University faculty members.

Loïc Charles joined us for a year of scholarship on three projects. The first was a study of the interactions between the nascent science of political economy and the practice of the French economic administration in late eighteenth century in order to assess the impact of the former on the...

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2015 – 2016

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Economics

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