Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Resume

Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor of the Study at Harvard University. Her current research interests interrogate knowledge production and circulation between Mexico and India. On a broader perspective, Soto Laveaga is interested in the history of science, as well as the history of development projects in the twentieth century.

Curriculum

Profesora de Historia de la Ciencia y de la cátedra Antonio Madero en la Universidad de Harvard. Sus intereses de investigación actuales interrogan la producción y circulación de conocimiento entre México e India. Desde una perspectiva más amplia, Soto Laveaga se interesa por la historia de la ciencia, así como por la historia de los proyectos de desarrollo en el siglo XX.

Links to some contributions of Gabriela Soto Laveaga:

Laveaga Soto, Gabriela. 2009. Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill. Durham: Duke University Press.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1374/Jungle-LaboratoriesMexican-Peasants-National

Laveaga Soto, Gabriela. 2021. Beyond Borlaud’s Shadow: Octavio Paz, Indian Farmers, and the Challenge of Narrating the Green Revolution. In Agricultural History, 95(4), 576-608.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/95/4/576/295352/Beyond-Borlaug-s-Shadow-Octavio-Paz-Indian-Farmers?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Laveaga Soto, Gabriela. 2020. The socialist origins of the Green Revolution: Pandurang Khankhoje and domestic technical assistance. In History and Technology, 36(3-4), 337-359.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07341512.2020.1862989