Gabriela Soto Laveaga
# Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Gabriela Soto Laveaga is a historian of science specializing in Latin America. She is currently a professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

## Background

She received her B.A. from California State University, Dominguez Hills; her M.A. (1998) and doctorate in history (2001) from University of California, San Diego, with Eric Van Young as her mentor. Before joining the faculty at Harvard in 2016, she earned tenure in the history department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2003–2016); and was assistant professor of history at Michigan State University (2002 to 2003). From 2019 to 2020, she was member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

### Awards

She received the 2010 Robert K Merton Best Book award for Jungle Laboratories and 2007 Latin American Studies Association Health, Science and Society Section Best Article Prize for Uncommon Trajectories.

