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Christina Ramos is an Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MA from Duke University, and a BA from the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the history of medicine, early modern Latin America, and the intersection of medical, religious, and indigenous cultures. She specializes in colonial hospitals, the Inquisition’s role in medical archives, and the social history of madness. Her book Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment examines the Hospital de San Hipólito in Mexico City as a colonial laboratory of the Hispanic Enlightenment.
Ramos has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Cheiron Book Prize, Bandelier/Lavrin Prize, and Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She teaches courses on the history of medicine, colonial Latin America, and the history of madness. Her current project, Nursing an Empire: Hospitals and Global Health in the Hispanic World, explores public health and medical charity in the Spanish Empire.
Her articles analyze colonial public health systems, the social construction of madness, and gendered perspectives in medical history. Grants and fellowships have supported her research across institutions, including Harvard, Brown, and the Newberry Library. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary humanities initiatives and public scholarship.
