Evelynn M. Hammonds

Who is Evelynn M. Hammonds?

Evelynn M. Hammonds is an American academic, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science and African American Studies at Harvard University and Former Dean of Harvard College. She is also a Black Feminist author, whose writing intersects the concepts of race with the academic fields of science and medicine. She has written articles that examine gender and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS. This intersection is apparent in her article “Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence.” Hammonds resigned her position as Dean of Harvard College, effective July 1, 2013.